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...said it hopes that academic institutions’ reconsideration of their investments will create broader pressure for state pension funds and mutual funds to divest from stocks affiliated with Sudan’s current regime...
...film is told almost entirely through testimonials, featuring interviews with everyone from a California blue-collar worker who saw his pension fund raided to former Enron VPs. The journalistic bent of the film is apparent in the filmmaker’s acquisition of internal memos, audio recordings and video footage that stand out as particularly worthwhile...
...Schwarzenegger's troubles could not be worse. He is trying to sell an ambitious program for political and economic reform directly to voters, and has already been forced to postpone an amendment--one of four he was hoping to push through this year--that would overhaul the state's pension system. With his agenda and pugnacious style provoking the ire of the state's powerful unions, one observer, former Governor and current Oakland mayor Jerry Brown, suggests that Schwarzenegger may want to "evaluate his range of adversaries and look for ways in which accommodations can be made." But Arnold might...
...world records in 20 days. That orange dervish Boris Becker, 17, confirmed his Wimbledon tennis championship in West Germany's first Davis Cup victory over the U.S. (the best American, John McEnroe, avoided Hamburg). But of all the sunny events piled up against the bleakness of arbitration clauses and pension proposals, the singular one was actually contested in a rainstorm at the Butler National Golf Club near Chicago, ultimately for no money at all. Scott Verplank, 21, a student at Oklahoma State, became the first amateur in 31 years, since Gene Littler, to win a P.G.A. Tour event...
Once he decides to work on a deal, Shaykin makes the rounds of banks and large investors like pension funds and insurance companies, which put up the loan money. Banks are leery of lending to foreign countries, oil drillers and other risky debtors, but they are happy to provide up to 70% of the cost of a buyout because of the large fees and lucrative interest rates that such business brings. The rest of the credit comes from selling so-called junk bonds--IOUs with relatively poor quality ratings--and other securities that offer high yields. Like the banks, investors...