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Wilshire Consulting said the aggregate funded ratio for U.S. state pension plans remained unchanged between and first and second quarters of 2018 at 70.8%, up 0.7 percentage points from the previous 12 months.

Portland Public Schools may need another $200 million to complete projects promised in a $790 million bond measure.

Owners of a Los Angeles complex had argued that their duty to provide affordable units ended when bonds were paid off.

James J. O'Neil received a 12-month suspension from the market for his role in the flipping and kickback scheme.

Keely Bosler will take the helm at the department, replacing Michael Cohen.

S&P Global Ratings looked to 2017's California wildfires to understand the credit implications of this year's blazes.

Issuance was down 27% in the region from the first half of 2017, and almost 30% in California, its largest market.

The now-defunct unregistered broker-dealer Core Performance Management, LLC, and four of its former employees settled fraud and MSRB rule violations with the SEC for engaging in municipal bond flipping and kickback scheme.

A report on cyber-related risks released Wednesday by S&P Global warned that “a successful attack on an entity with limited resources could have a credit impact.”

The measure, which may be on the ballot in 2020, would lift the Proposition 13 limit on commercial property tax assessments.