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...Skadden has hired John Kocoras, former first assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, as a partner in its litigation group, based in Chicago....
...Yet Illinois has, for now, a top state income tax rate of 4.95 per cent....
...Bondholders do not have priority over social welfare recipients....
...New York and Illinois are big, but so is Texas. When we ran the numbers, however, it became clear which way the subsidies went....
...Or take the counties of Illinois, some of which adopted plebiscites for property tax assessments. Those that did saw a clear decline in fire-service response times....
...Other debt-laden entities, such as the state of Illinois, might soon be caught in the storm. To understand this, look at Puerto Rico’s numbers....
...The US central bank is independent but plays a critical role in the welfare of the nation as an arm of government, he says....
...Asked how they fund their animal rescue efforts, Mrs Janota says: “Beg, borrow and steal.”...
...The need to raise funds is dominating Mr Romney’s schedule, with just two public rallies over the past week, as he has toured numerous states to pull in funds to pay for the final weeks of his campaign....
...China will allow foreign hedge funds to solicit funds for overseas investments....
...Allianz, Axa, BlackRock and Fidelity are among those arguing that technical standards proposed by the EU as part of reforms of hedge fund regulation will affect more traditional fund managers....
...In 2011, Illinois had an $86bn hole in its public pension funds and unpaid bills to service providers....
...“The maximum shutdown units risk parameter was not triggered because the strategy, which was designed to trade an energy-based [exchange traded fund] against crude, had been incorrectly configured to trade...
...In a filing in the chancery court of Delaware, the two shareholders, Amalgamated Bank of New York and Central Laborers Pension Fund, an Illinois-based fund, claimed there was no reason to purchase Shine...
...Institutional Shareholder Services endorsed the proposal by the Central Laborers’ Pension Fund, Jacksonville, Illinois, which is likely to have more votes when the proposal is put before investors at Apple...
...The proposal to disclose detailed succession planning policy was put forward by the Central Laborers’ Pension Fund of Jacksonville, Illinois, before Mr Jobs’ abrupt departure on open-ended medical leave...
...Billions have been wiped off the value of pension funds. Illinois has been hard hit by the decline in manufacturing. The need for welfare services is greater than ever....
...Most states, which are responsible for much of the public spending on education, welfare and roads, have rules which require them to balance their budgets....
...Participants were given a choice of 456 private sector funds but the government also designed a “default” fund for those who did not want to make a choice. They did an excellent job....
...But it was more than a scenic tour through rural north-east Illinois and south-east Wisconsin with a buddy....
...Or to put it another way, the supply of funds looking for a return on investment has grown faster than investor demand....
...McAfee, a software security maker, was sued on Monday in federal court in the Northern District of California by the Heavy & General Laborers’ Pension and Annuity Funds, alleging “constructive fraud” through...
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