A plan that allowed some pension enrollees to cash in early on their earned retirement benefits in exchange for curbing future benefits has so far generated only 3% of its expected savings.
Institutional investors have been using their financial heft to urge corporations to go green. But now they are asking Congress to do more — to get regulators to ensure transparency and consistency when it comes to reporting risks.
The trustees of the massive trust fund, commonly known as LACERA, have taken hundreds of trips across the country and overseas in recent years, excursions that have cost the fund more than $1.3 million since 2015, according to a Times review of internal documents.