The nation's largest pension is seeking to cut risk in its $46 billion bond portfolio by 50%.

Activists are organizing a campaign to urge the $33 billion Gates Foundation to sever ties with agribusiness giant Monsanto and other firms involved in developing bio-engineered crops, encouraging the foundation to shift its funding priorities from industrial agriculture to socially and ecologically appropriate practices.

Britain's Pension Protection Fund (PPF), created in 2005, aims to build its solvency ratio to 110% over the next 20 years, from 88% in March 2009.

Norwegian Finance Minister Sigbjorn Johnsen said the oil fund has excluded two Israeli firms for ethical reasons.

Connecticut will carry out an asset allocation and liability study for each of its six state pension funds, while the Montana Board of Investments has commissioned an asset-liability study for the $2.5 billion Montana Teachers' Retirement System.