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...carefully planned, prepackaged bankruptcy would still be troublesome, she says. Throwing 479,000 GM retirees onto the rolls of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., for instance, could overwhelm it. And GM's agreement to fund the United Auto Workers' voluntary employee beneficiary association (VEBA) - thus getting a $50 billion unfunded liability off its books - might then be in jeopardy, as would the union's health benefits. The VEBA has already saved GM nearly $5 billion in the past quarter, and still greater benefits lie ahead...
...decide, and public-policy types who view the economy as something far more organic than a balance sheet. But ultimately, whether GM is dead or alive, the taxpayers are on the hook for billions, for everything from lost tax revenues to higher unemployment costs to taking over GM's pension obligations. The decision that Washington has to make is whether we pay for GM's survival or for its funeral...
...hypothetically absorb occasional big losses. In return, the industry has largely been exempted from the regulatory and disclosure requirements imposed on more common mutual funds. But hedge funds haven't just been the domain of the ultra-rich. Other pools of wealth, including university endowments and public pension funds, have put their money in so-called funds of hedge funds, which spread risk by investing in a portfolio of hedge funds and hence are considered safer. But since hedge funds are doing badly, so are funds of hedge funds, which appear to be headed for their worst year ever...
...Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, have volunteered to create a clearinghouse for the hazily understood concentrations of risk known as credit-default swaps. Investors are also taking more responsibility. Over the past month, the analytics firm RiskMetrics has seen a rush of pension funds, hedge funds and asset managers signing up for tools to analyze counterparty risk. "The only folks who used to ask us about those were banks," says risk-management-practice head Gregg Berman...
...that has crippled investors’ access to capital—a key driver of gains in that sector. Harvard would not be alone if it did unload much of its private-equity portfolio, according to The Journal. The newspaper reported that the nation’s largest public pension fund—the $189.6 billion California Public Employees Retirement System–has requested that private-equity firms “ease off” of demands for capital that the fund had previously promised...