The pension-fund industry says its participation is modest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pension Funds Defend] Reference

We have become a nation of pension-fund managers individually.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2003] Reference

Unions and politicians have pressed pension-fund managers not to invest in LBOs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarians Aren't All Bad] Reference

Some firms use middlemen known as placement agents to help get pension-fund business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criminal Case Ensnares Aides to Ex-New York Comptroller] Reference

Even with these offsets, however, pension-fund sales can't help but have a wet-blanket effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Goes Up . . . Goes Where?] Reference

Unlike private companies that must now report pension-fund liabilities via Form 5500, the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Tepper Marlin: The Growing Price of U.S. Debt] Reference

Mr. Cuomo's office and the SEC in March accused a former top New York state pension-fund official.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pay-to-Play Case Widens to Ensnare Aldus Equity] Reference

Bullish on New York commercial real estate, pension-fund executives say they're eager to buy more.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIAA, Omnicom In Lease Talks] Reference

Mr. Rose added that the company's pension-fund deficit had increased by £1 billion to £3.1 billion.    From Wordnik.com.  [BAE Swings to a First-Half Net Loss] Reference

He said his office is starting to look at the roles of lawyers and lobbyists in the pension-fund business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pay-to-Play Case Widens to Ensnare Aldus Equity] Reference

The impact wasn't felt then because GM, like other companies, measures its pension-fund balance once a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yin and Yang of Yields Haunts Pensions] Reference

One pension-fund head who is opposed to a takeover suggested that contributors inundate the government with lawsuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Argentina Makes Grab for Pensions Amid Crisis] Reference

And what of Social Security, whose looming shortfalls make corporate pension-fund problems look like rounding errors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pension Funds' Risky Business] Reference

That's the classic pension-fund allocation (stocks for growth, bonds for cushioning losses when the stock market drops).    From Wordnik.com.  [It's White Knuckle Time] Reference

That pressures pension-fund managers to allocate more assets away from stocks into government debt, giving zeros a boost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funds Earn Their Strips] Reference

It doesn't make intuitive sense, but higher interest rates make pension-fund liabilities seem smaller than lower rates do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pumping Hormones Into GM's Nest Egg] Reference

But pension-fund managers contacted by NEWSWEEK were skeptical that their returns would be affected in any substantial way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taxing the Super Rich] Reference

Mr. Morris acted as a placement agent, or middleman, helping Quadrangle and other private-equity funds secure pension-fund business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disclosure Issue Emerges for Quadrangle] Reference

One day last week, Gorbachev spent three and a half hours with American pension-fund managers and a delegation of Italian businessmen.    From Wordnik.com.  ['No Work Is Getting Done'] Reference

The idea here is to increase employee pension-fund participation, which means that you'll probably have to cut back on matching funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lot More Than a Penny Earned] Reference

Also, he says that pension-fund managers prefer an officially approved product and these institutional investors are his target market.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Where There's Corruption, There's Opportunity'] Reference

Several investors, including TIAA-CREF, a major pension-fund manager, have said they intend to vote against his re-election as chairman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lewis Testifies U.S. Urged Silence on Deal] Reference

The median return on invested funds has been negative in six of the past 10 years, according to pension-fund adviser Cambridge Associates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lehman Selloff Isn't So Bad] Reference

Mr. Renna also disputes that prudent pension-fund advisers aren't going to put their client relationships in jeopardy for short-term gain.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Battle for Investor Cash] Reference

While Vallejo represents an extreme situation, other state and local governments are grappling with how to address pension-fund shortfalls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Crunch, Wish You Weren't Here] Reference

The mayor is trying to raise revenue to shore up pension-fund shortfalls by leasing parking garages or raising payroll taxes on nonprofits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pittsburgh Scrubs Up for Visit From the G-20] Reference

Two giant pension-fund systems -- New York City's and California's -- told NEWSWEEK they will vote against the family-protection provisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Permanent Occupancy] Reference

It is telling that the most noteworthy accomplishment Mr. Brown mentions is legislation to stop state pension-fund investment in South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Real Slick Willie' Speaks] Reference

Mr. Hevesi once used a pension-fund investment to threaten Sinclair Broadcasting into taking off the air a documentary critical of Senator John Kerry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Pension Shakedown] Reference

Sharon Manewitz, managing director for distressed investments at pension-fund manager TIAA-CREF, has served on more than 10 creditor committees since 1982.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building a Better Post-Bankruptcy Board] Reference

Your pension-fund managers have strong incentives to hold the bulk of their assets in riskier investments (stocks) rather than in conservative ones (bonds).    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Fix The Pension Mess] Reference

Separately, companies in the FTSE-100 index have switched 5% of their combined £373 billion of pension-fund assets into bonds in the 12 months through June.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.K. Pension Programs] Reference

LONDON -- Norway's Finance Ministry said Thursday it has excluded Israel's Elbit Systems Ltd. from the country's vast global pension-fund portfolio because of ethical concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norway's Pension Fund Drops Israel's Elbit] Reference

It also bodes well for cash: pension-fund managers can get 5 percent returns on cash risk-free at a time when the average hedge fund is getting only about 7 percent, before fees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dump and Run] Reference