21.   He is also a lawyer representing the Philadelphia and New York state public pension funds in huge class-action cases.

22.   He said a key challenge for the fund is to win over the one million affiliates of the public pension system.

23.   His was the first large public pension fund to sue.

24.   In other measures related to finance, voters in several states approved proposals aimed at ensuring that public pension funds will have enough money to pay future retirees.

25.   In TOKYO, stocks traded mixed as a flood of public pension fund buying of futures and blue chips pulled the benchmark Nikkei index back from two year lows.

26.   It also forced large investments in Japanese stocks by public pension funds.

27.   It is one of several public pension funds that suffered multimillion-dollar losses from their Enron holdings.

28.   Investors bid up stocks on expectations investment advisers will direct new contracts for public pension money into equity in the new fiscal year starting Monday.

29.   Japanese stocks were little changed as public pension funds buoyed the market after a worse-than-expected Bank of Japan survey of business sentiment.

30.   Japanese stocks fell led by Nomura Securities Co. after the largest public pension fund in the U.S. said it may stop doing business with the scandal-ridden brokerage.