NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has confirmed the 'AA-/F1+' ratings on the following Bay Area Toll Authority, San Francisco Bay Area Toll Bridge Revenue Bonds, variable-rate bonds (2008 Reoffering), totaling $1,658,320,000 and consisting of the following: --Series 2001A, B and C; --Series 2003C; --Series 2004A, B and...
Frivolous suits not so funny As a Moraga resident, I began reading Mike Zampa's "The Big Picture" column on Aug. 8 expecting to be amused as he poked a little good-natured fun at some of the recent goings-on in our town. True, as Mike Zampa observed, things are...
CalPERS 'essential retirement tool' The City of Orinda members of Public Employees Union Local 1 want to be participants in the California Public Employees Retirement System CalPERS. Employees have stated willingness to absorb any cost differential in becoming plan members. CalPERS is an essential retirement...
Orinda's city employees' union and its City Council are at odds over the employees' retirement savings plan -- a hot button issue that has prompted an early start to contract negotiations. The employees want inclusion in the California Public Employees' Retirement System -- a virtually hands-off penison plan...
BURBANK, Calif. -- Shamrock Capital Advisors, Inc. confirmed today that Dennis Johnson, Director of Corporate Governance for CalPERS, will become Managing Director of the Shamrock Value Activist Fund, L.P. effective August 1, 2008. Johnson has served three years as Director of Corporate Governance for CalPERS. The Corporate Governance Office...
Using wood to create biofuels, rather than corn and sugar, could be the way to wean the world off oil without triggering a surge in the price of basic foodstuffs, according to one of the world's most powerful pension fund managers. The idea is being pursued by Russell...
With trillions of dollars in capital sailing the globe in search of investments, the shareholders' crusade for more open, well-run companies is gaining strength across many major and emerging markets. In what some call a worldwide corporate-governance movement, shareholders are pushing for stronger corporate-governance laws, teaming...
CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings affirms its 'AAA/F1+' rating to the credit enhancement program CEP sponsored by the California Public Employees' Retirement System CalPERS. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The CEP provides letters of credit LOCs and liquidity enhancement for municipal issuers. Upon request by the issuer, Fitch will rate debt...
THE FIGHT over four Indian gaming compacts got a bit nastier this week, when a union supporting the agreements filed a complaint with the state attorney general against the owner of Bay Meadows race track. In a letter dated Jan. 29, the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association...
FRANCES NEE MORILLAS MARIA Of Millbrae, formerly of San Bruno entered into rest in Daly City, January 22, 2008. Beloved wife of the late John Maria for 53 years and loving mother of Suzanne Spencer (her husband, Richard) Jaclyn Gordillo (her husband, Wayne) and Jayne Cipollini (her...
CalPERS Acquires Minority Stake in Silver Lake Agreement Provides Permanent Capital Base to Support Silver Lake Growth NEW YORK & MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Silver Lake, the leader in large private investments in technology, technology-enabled, and related growth industries, announced today that it has entered into a long-term...
The world's major banking groups are facing unprecedented pressure to repair balance sheets and restore their liquidity as the ongoing credit crisis shows few signs of easing. Conventional commercial pressures are also refusing to go away. HSBC, the world's third-biggest bank, whose business strategy has been under critical...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Public Employees' Retirement System will sell more than $20 billion in stocks and bonds as the largest U.S. public pension fund aims for higher returns from venture capital, commodities, real estate and several other investment options. Under a new strategy approved Monday,...
The financial industry continues to be challenged when it comes to the Latino consumer. With a large percentage of Latinos termed "unbanked", financial opportunities from checking accounts to stock portfolios remain mostly out of reach. In the summer of 2006 issue of Journal of Consumer Affairs, Sherrie L. Rhine...
Exploration and development of Sudan's oil resources has been controversial. International human rights organisations have accused the Sudanese government of financing human rights abuses with oil revenues, including the mass displacement of civilians near the oilfields. Factional fighting in the south and rebel attacks on oil...
LOS ANGELES -- Caltius Capital Management is pleased to announce the final closings of Caltius Equity Partners II, LP and Caltius Equity Partners Executive II, LP with an aggregate capital commitment of over $133 million. "We are extremely pleased to have such a high caliber group of limited partners...
Business News IN BRIEF --America's largest pension fund, the California Public Employees Retirement System CalPERS, has allocated 286m to Standard Life Investments Private Equity to expand its presence in Europe. CalPERS said Slipe, part of Standard Life, would invest the capital in small or middle-market buyout funds.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Six leading experts will address new and emerging challenges, opportunities and strategies for investing in California at the California Pension Fund Investment Conference September 18-20 in Los Angeles at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. The conference is designed to enhance institutional investing in California, which is the...
CalPERS Tops List as the Most Influential of The Directorship 100 BOSTON -- The California Public Employees' Retirement System CalPERS was named the most influential player in corporate governance by Directorship in the magazine's inaugural ranking of corporate governance leaders. The $250-billion retirement fund has helped put executive pay...
Executives at the California Public Employees Retirement System - the nation's largest public pension - growing weary of the lack of technological innovation and ingenuity in health care, recently pledged $700 million of its coffers, in partnership with Health Evolution Partners, to invest in a new equity fund to bring...
