US - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has taken a substantial hit on investments in mortgage-backed securities, and its trust fund has lost at least $3bn in stock investments in the 11 months until the end of August, it has been revealed.
Education and Labor Committee chairman George Miller announced the losses at a hearing in San Francisco yesterday, claiming they were only partially offset by modest gains in other investment class...
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