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Maryland Lost Big On Wall Street Pension Gamble

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Maryland has joined a not-very-exclusive club: States that have moved pension funds into riskier Wall Street investments and received, in return, below-median results. That underperformance by Maryland’s $40 billion public pension fund cost state taxpayers more than $1 billion in unrealized returns in fiscal year 2014 alone, according to a new study by Jeffrey Hooke, a…

Maryland Lost Big On Wall Street Pension Gamble

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