Posted by Reuters: Business News on October 15, 2011
(Reuters) – Calpers, the biggest U.S. public pension fund, said on Friday it would withhold its votes for the reelection of Rupert Murdoch and sons James and Lachlan to the News Corp board of directors.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on February 8, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Calpers sued a group of ex-Lehman executives and underwriters, alleging it bought over $700 million in bonds and Lehman stock without knowing the true condition of the…



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Posted by The Distressed Debt Report on December 2, 2010
The nation's largest public pension fund, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, has pu…
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Posted by The Distressed Debt Report on October 5, 2010
The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest pension fund in the U.S., s…
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Posted by Reuters: Business News on June 29, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc’s creditors, including the largest U.S. pension fund and a prominent hedge fund, said they object to the investment bank’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on March 26, 2010
(Reuters) – Los Angeles’s justice department is scrutinizing certain investment transactions of public pension funds, including Calpers, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 6, 2009
(Reuters) – California Public Employees’ Retirement System, knew it was paying uncompetitive rates on foreign-exchange trades as early as 2003, the Wall Street Journal said, citing a consultant who advised the largest U.S. public pension fund.

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Posted by Reuters: Business News on October 26, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The real estate investment manager who led the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the nation’s largest pension fund, into a money-losing land venture has resigned as an adviser to the fund, a spokeswoman for MacFarlane Partners said on Saturday.

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Posted by Reuters: Business News on October 25, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The real estate investment manager who led the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the nation’s largest pension fund, into a money-losing land venture has resigned as an adviser to the fund, a spokeswoman for MacFarlane Partners said on Saturday.

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Posted by Reuters: Business News on October 23, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Russell Read, the former chief investment officer of Calpers, the largest pension fund in the United States, knows his trees.

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