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1 hr ago | The Capital-Journal

Schools grapple with KPERS surcharge

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Shawnee County, KS, Topeka, KS, Topeka Metro, 9, Silver Lake, KS

6 hrs ago | Guardian Unlimited

Sex, drugs, music and a pension: why 1948 was the luckiest year to be born

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

10 hrs ago | Times-Sentinel

Roth IRA opportunity

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

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Related Topix: IRA, Personal Finance, Retirement, Opinion

14 hrs ago | WLOS

Union: NYC teachers pension checks canceled

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

19 hrs ago | The Sydney Morning Herald

Transurban spurns $6b bid by Canadian funds

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Canada.com

CPP participates in US$5.2-billion bid for IMS

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 ...

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MSNBC

Best of both worlds? Combined pension/401k

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

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, 401K, Principal Financial Group, Insurance, Financial Services, Investment Services

The Chronicle Herald

NDP: Harper's new senators come with big price tag

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.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Stephen Harper, Personal Finance

Lincoln Daily News

Report: Fla. investment agency under investigation

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

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Related Topix: Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law

EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

Retirement board to transfer funds to state

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Hispanic Business

Placement Firm Boss Earned Millions After CalPERS Investment

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA, Financial Services, Investment Services, Retirement

Long Island Press

After Probe, LI Lawyer to Repay Pension Checks

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

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

KTNV

Without job stress, retirees sleep better

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

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Related Topix: Sleep, Medicine, Health, Personal Finance

The Post Chronicle

People With Pensions Sleep Better After Retirement

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Health

Dose

Alberta ready to push Ottawa on supplementary pension plan

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, North America, Canada, World News, Retirement

Clover Herald

NM court nixes lawsuit to higher pension payments

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Santa Fe Metro, Santa Fe, NM

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Cbs4denver.com

Colorado Panel Backs Relaxing Higher Ed Reporting

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.

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Related Topix: Colorado, Colorado Government, Bill Ritter , US Governors

Press-Telegram

The case for public pensions

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

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA, Financial Services, Investment Services, Retirement, Opinion

Rabble.ca

Canada's pension system is in play

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

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, North America, Canada, World News

Left in East Dakota

The Corporate Attack on Pension Plans

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Social Security, IRA, Retirement

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