NY pension funds press big Web companies on rights
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New York City employee pension funds are calling on two top Internet companies to do more to protect free speech in repressive countries, joining a year-old campaign by human rights groups.
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NEW YORK  Big may be beautiful again. For about two years, many market analysts have been predicting the return of large, growth-oriented companies. But smaller-company shares have persistently outrun the big boys. Now, with a fog of uncertainty clouding stocks, money managers are renewing their ...
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Social networks that tap the interests and buying power of traditionally reserved groups like the bookish are a small but growing force on the Web.
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The main pension fund of New York State filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Merck &amp; Company, accusing it of misleading shareholders about the safety of its arthritis pain drug Vioxx, which has since been withdrawn.
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Four of the largest US public pension funds on Tuesday said they would ask Walt Disney Co. shareholders to change company policy to let investors nominate two independent directors to the board.
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Investors are hoping for good financial news from the search engine giant.
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Unit investment trusts, for years a popular way to hold municipal bonds, are getting a second life in investors' equity portfolios as an alternative to mutual funds.
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Financial institutions are devising new products on &quot;longevity risk&quot; faced by pension funds that could mushroom into a multi-trillion dollar global market based in London.
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Business & money: Local authority pension funds are to tackle arms companies about their activities.
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The company's new software might let private information go public. Also: A new website pays you to help your friends buy products  & hellip;. LAN operators start to gear up  & hellip;. and more.
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy yesterday said he would press US pension plans to disclose proxy votes on the stocks they hold -- as mutual funds must now do -- in response to a government report calling for greater transparency in pensions affecting 100 million workers and $4 trillion of assets.
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If you want to keep the right to influence your companies, let the SEC know.
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If you are tired of reading about  slick young hedge fund traders who puff on big cigars after  wheeling and dealing on Wall Street, Doubledown Media LLC has  the magazine for you.
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The ouster of the president of California&#39;s public pension fund has raised questions about whether pension funds, endowments and other big activist investors will be able to keep wielding influence in corporate governance campaigns.
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Phillip Goldstein, manager of a small hedge fund company, likes to stretch the definition of activist investor. He's challenged the managers of closed-end funds and questioned the judgment of the U.S. markets watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Just when you thought that financial couldn't get more exciting here comes the SEC with a cool new AJAX-y site to view filings
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Websites face axe in search for 'sufficient public value'