US - Divesting from Sudan cost the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System US$1.78m, excluding lost opportunity costs from private equity, in the first half of 2006, Global Pensions can exclusively reveal.
Governor Rod Blagojevich passed a bill earlier this year requiring state pension funds to divest from companies involved in the war-torn country, and TRS announced in May it had incurred $1.2m in c...
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