Showing posts with label Forbes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forbes. Show all posts

Monday, October 21, 2013

Stop the Bleeding - Public Pension Funds Under Attack - Report and NY Times article

I have been hammering the NYCERS trustees for several years about about their investment decisions, in particular, allocations to private equity, real estate partnerships, and hedge funds.

Now there is a growing record of how misplaced these investments are for public pension funds.

Read the October 20, 2013 NY Times article by Gretchen Morgenson, Ted Seidle's recap article in Forbes on the investigation to the assault on the Employee Retirement System of Rhode Island, and the broad sweeping expose in Rolling Stone magazine.

Here is the link to the full investigative report.

Maybe the new mayor could find the money for his pre-K program by stopping the bleeding of the pension funds by Wall Street.

Friday, February 17, 2012

"Public Pension Suckers for Private Equity"

Please read this February 16, 2012 Forbes article by Edward Siedle.

Then read some of my prior postings on private equity investing: hard reality, zombie funds, and make sense.