US - Illinois's Teachers Retirement System may sell $3bn of investments to pay for benefits this year because the state can't make its contributions to the fund, a spokesman said.
The pension plan sold $200m of assets in July and $290m in August, Dave Urbanek, spokesman for the $33bn fund, said in a phone interview. "We understand from the comptroller that there is no mon...
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