Pension News

Retired state and local public employees can be rehired to the same job or to a different state job after a 60-day waiting period.

Yes, there was rationing ... but think what this baby had to look forward to. Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images Free healthcare, free schooling, free love a ' and now early retirement free from the financial woes that plague the rest of us.

Starting in 2010, any taxpayer, regardless of income, can convert a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA.

Bank of New York Mellon says it is working to correct a problem that caused the electronic cancelation of the pension checks of tens of thousands of retired New York City teachers and school staff.

TWO of Canada's biggest pension funds were last night seeking to reopen talks with the toll-road giant Transurban after it rejected a $6.7 billion takeover offer.

Mark Wiseman, a senior vice president with CPP Investment Board: a oeWe are pleased to make a significant investment in IMS Health which is the market leader in its industry with a strong customer base." Photograph by: Peter Redman/National Post, National Post The investment arm of the Canada Pension Plan has emerged as one of the most aggressive ...

Over the last year it's become abundantly clear that the stock market can devastate even seemingly healthy retirement accounts.

NDP: Harper's new senators come with big price tag Appointees' office, travel expenses average almost $197,000 a year By BRUCE CHEADLE The Canadian Press Fri.

The Florida agency that manages $132 billion in pension and local government investments is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Essex Regional Retirement Board, beset by local officials for months, yesterday morning voted 3-1 to transfer control of its investments to the state's Pension Reserves Investment Trust.

Alfred Villalobos, the controversial businessman at the heart of a pension fund corruption probe, earned some $9.6 million in fees after CalPERS invested hundreds of millions of dollars with a real estate firm with deep ties to downtown Sacramento.

Written by Associated Press on Nov 5th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

What you're not doing once retired seems to make a good night's sleep come more easily.

Retirees have something else to look forward to besides playing golf -- much better sleep -- particularly if they have decent retirement benefits and retire relatively early.

Alberta Finance Minister Iris Evans says she's prepared to step up efforts to persuade the federal government the best way to tackle the country's pension woes is to establish a voluntary, supplementary plan atop the existing Canada Pension Plan.

The state can continue collecting higher pension contributions from part-time government workers earning less than $20,000 a year, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

Share + Nov 4, 2009 4:58 pm US/Mountain A Colorado legislative committee studying long-term fiscal reform has approved a bill giving colleges and universities more flexibility, and a study of the state's complicated state and local tax structure to be delivered in 2011.

A delegation from Sacramento came by the office this week to make the case for CalPERS , the nation's biggest pension fund.

Canada's pension crisis was the sleeper issue of Canadian politics two weeks ago.

While George W. Busha s attempt at privatizing Social Security famously failed, private industry has largely been successful at shifting their group pension plans into individual private accounts.