US - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said city pension funds have set unrealistically high assumed rates of return on investments at 8%.
"It's much too high an assumption for us, I think it should be lowered," Bloomberg said at a news briefing, referring to the city's five pensions holding almost $104bn. "That's going to requir...
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