PennPSERS board member files suit seeking access to financial records
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Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System board member and state senator Katie Muth has filed suit against the $64.2 billion state pension plan seeking documents and information disclosing how PennPSERS is managed and selects its investments.
Ms. Muth, a Democrat, said in a news release issued Monday that her office has been repeatedly denied access to such documents. I have time and time again been denied access to documents and information regarding (PennPSERS) investments, practices, and management, said Ms. Muth in the release. While at first this was just frustrating, once news that the Department of Justice was investigating PSERS, it became incredibly concerning.
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It was the rarest of public appearances. At Toshiba Corp.’s extraordinary general meeting in March, a lawyer, who didn’t give his name, talked for four minutes about why shareholders’ rights should never be infringed.
He was speaking on behalf of Effissimo Capital Management Pte, a secretive hedge fund that had avoided the spotlight for almost 15 years. Now it was coming out into the open, if only slightly, to spearhead a campaign to bring change at the conglomerate and, by extension, corporate Japan.
Effissimo’s victory over Toshiba’s management in that March 18 shareholder vote was a landmark moment both for Japan Inc. and the hedge fund, whose guarded actions have long been the subject of intrigue.
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(Bloomberg) It was the rarest of public appearances. At Toshiba Corp.âs extraordinary general meeting in March, a lawyer, who didnât give his name, talked for four minutes about why shareholdersâ rights should never be infringed.
(Bloomberg) It was the rarest of public appearances. At Toshiba Corp.âs extraordinary general meeting in March, a lawyer, who didnât give his name, talked for four minutes about why shareholdersâ rights should never be infringed.
He was speaking on behalf of Effissimo Capital Management Pte, a secretive hedge fund that had avoided the spotlight for almost 15 years. Now it was coming out into the open, if only slightly, to spearhead a campaign to bring change at the conglomerate and by extension corporate Japan.