Defined Benefits

The union said Treasurer Janet Cowell is failing to disclose all direct and indirect placement fees, asset fees, performance fees and any other management fees in the $86 billion pension fund.

CalPERS, with a market value of $282.9 billion as of March 14, said publicly traded equity investments rose 12.7 percent through Jan. 31.

As head of alternative investments for AT&T from 1980 to 1995, Judge helped establish the first ties between institutional investors and startup ventures.

The move affects everyone from teachers to parish workers, Catholic Charities employees and others who work in the diocese.

The cartoon snake, which Illinois Governor Pat Quinn used to symbolize retiree costs that are strangling the states finances and undermining its credit rating, is now smothering Chicago.

The American Federation of Teachers is urging public pensions to review investments with Chicago-based GTCR, a private-equity firm where Rauner was chairman before stepping down in 2012.