Mass. fund to rehire Putnam
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The state yesterday rehired the poster child for the mutual fund scandal and fired the industry&#39;s current golden child. The Massachusetts state pension fund
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The Massachusetts office of Economic Development is giving out $76 million in grants to 21 development projects, including $10 million to Columbus Center, a long-delayed hotel, residential, and retail project that is to straddle the Massachusetts Turnpike between the Back Bay and South End.
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In an effort to increase accountability and better target its charitable dollars, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley will redirect about $3.6 million from the amount it provides traditional charities to new programs.
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Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin said yesterday his staff has demanded documents from two Wall Street firms over their recommendations on subprime lenders such as New Century Financial Corp. of California, questioning whether analysts remained too positive on the faltering companies to prop up other financial relationships.
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Decision follows speculation that response to last year's financial turbulence might cost a second term
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 9--What's muddying the waters at North Carolina's Clean Water Management Trust Fund? The state-funded conservation organization recently lost its executive director, and then its board chairman stepped down.
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In an unusual deal with the nation&#39;s most powerful public pension fund, Putnam Investments yesterday pledged new disclosures and other protections intended
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THE REGION Putnam taps trustees
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Former Lesley University president Margaret A. McKenna has a new post: Running the philanthropic arm of megaretailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The Bentonville, Ark., company said yesterday it hired McKenna to run its foundation, which last year doled out more than $270 million to charities.
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Omid Kamshad wore out his welcome at Putnam Investments years ago. But the company and the former mutual fund manager who caused it so much trouble just can't seem to let each other go.
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Putnam Investments yesterday overhauled the investment groups that manage small and midsized stocks, in an effort to boost performance in several funds. Two veteran fund managers are retiring as part of the shake-up.
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The out-of-town owners of both Putnam Investments and MFS Investment Management are mulling whether to sell the big asset-management companies, spin them off, or take other steps that could put at risk several thousand jobs at each.
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Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), who led much of Congress&#39; oversight of federal information technology during the past two years, has left the House Government Reform Committee and joined the Rules Committee.
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Putnam Investments yesterday said it will dismiss another 100 employees in a cost-cutting move to reflect its smaller size after an employee-trading scandal cost it tens of billions in investors&#39; funds.
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The board of Bank of America Corp.'s Nations Funds has asked most of its longstanding members to step down in a house-cleaning effort aimed at satisfying New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who last year accused the trustees of allowing a hedge fund to improperly trade its funds.
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Two former directors at Putnam Investments have agreed to pay $400,000 each to settle charges that they had engaged in improper trading.
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Fidelity Investments plans to allow new investors to put money into Magellan, once the largest mutual fund in the U.S., for the first time in more than a decade.