Geoff Mulvihill, The Associated Press

Geoff Mulvihill, The Associated Press

Russia divestment promises by U.S. pension funds largely unfulfilled

Six months into a war that has killed thousands of Ukrainians and displaced more than 12 million more, most of the pledges by U.S. pension funds, university endowments and other public sector holdings to drop Russian investments have gone unfulfilled, according to an Associated Press review, state retirement administrators and firms that invest state funds. […]

  • August 26, 2022 August 26, 2022
  • 15:00

Stock market tumble could keep pension funds behind

The slide on Wall Street could damage public employee pension funds around the U.S. And the burden could end up falling on taxpayers. Stocks have been tumbling in the first weeks of 2016, with the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 down nearly 9% since the start of the year. If there’s a quick […]

  • January 22, 2016 September 13, 2019
  • 09:23