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Articles mentioning both CalPERS and Board of Directors

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1. CalPERS Backs Berkshire Shareholder Measure to Remove Warren Buffett as Chairman
  
  Explore MarketWatch Apr 20 2022 BoardNews
  
  ...CalPERS, the countrys largest state public pension fund, disclosed Tuesday that it intends to vote for a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder proposal that would replace Warren Buffett as chairman... ...
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  Mentions: Shareholder Proposal Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway
2. Boards Face More Challenging 2022 Proxy season on ESG
  
  Explore Financial News and Analysis Feb 25 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ... climate-related lobbying — and the use of corporate funds for direct and indirect political contributions.” “Shareholders are submitting proposals focused on whether companies’ political activities are consistent with t...
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3. Behind That Bombshell Shareholder Resolution at Costco
  
  Explore InvestmentNews Feb 3 2022 BoardNews
  
  ...but that step did not dissuade shareholders from approving the Scope 3 resolution, Samuelrich noted. Costco’s board of directors also recommended that shareholders vote against the proposal. Costco public relations staff...
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4. 2021 Proxy Season Review: Shareholder Proposals on Environmental Matters
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Aug 12 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...take place before new rules were established through the notice-and-comment rulemaking process. The letter to Chairman Gensler is available via https://republicans-financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2021-04-19_gen...
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  Mentions: Investment Citigroup Coca Cola
5. Public Company Guide—Planning for Shareholder Engagement
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Aug 10 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ificant level of opposition, it should reach out to its shareholders to get additional feedback to understand shareholders’ concerns with its executive compensation plan. Many shareholders will expect companies to engage...
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6. Memo to Corporate Directors: Three Lessons from the Exxon-Mobil Activist Victory
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu May 30 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ligation as fiduciaries is to shareholders, not executives, and that their actions make that message clear to shareholders as well. Engine No. 1 is the first of a new kind of activists; its success makes it clear it will...
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  Mentions: Japan independence CalSTRS
7. Aesop’s Fables And ExxonMobil’s May 26, 2021 Annual Shareholder Meeting Weather Report
  
  Explore forbes.com May 22 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ... chances of rain are looking rather higher. Will it be the 12 on the company’s blue proxy card or the ones on activist investor Engine No. 1’s white proxy card? Under proxy rules, investors must choose to vote only on on...
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8. SEC Proxy Voting Rule Changes Could Weaken Minority Shareholder Influence
  
  Explore morningstar.com Sep 17 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ... were filed in late 2019, well before the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board of Directors prepare a report… on Pilgrim Pride's human rights due diligence (HRDD) process to assess, i...
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9. Public Company vs. JV Governance
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Dec 28 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...: James Bamford and David Ernst, “CalPERS Global Governance Principles: Joint Venture Governance Guidelines,” CalPERS, Updated Mar 16, 2015; Meghan McGovern, Tracy Branding, James Bamford, and Lois D’Costa, “JV Directors...
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  Mentions: Management Public Companies General Motors
10. Should CEOs Double as Board Chairs? Increasingly S&P 500 Companies are Saying No
  
  Explore KAKE.com Oct 31 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...an live with a combined chair/CEO role so long as there is also a strong lead independent director appointed. CalPERS, for instance, which invests on behalf of California's public employees, most strongly favors a separa...
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11. Special Report: Index Funds Invest Trillions But Rarely Challenge Management
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and News Oct 8 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...dissenters to vote against Coty’s pay arrangements. The large index funds also backed the re-election of Coty Chairman Lambertus Becht, who received a special $3.6 million payout for his work on the company’s $12.5 billi...
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  Mentions: Management State Street Vanguard
12. Calpers Diversity Push Blends Social-Investing Camps
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Jun 18 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...at board nominees running unopposed receive approval from a majority of shareholders. The proposal is part of Calpers’s broader effort to bolster the diversity of corporate boards on the theory that more diversity transl...
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13. Red Rock’s All-White, All-Male Board Draws Calpers’ Attention
  
  Explore Bloomberg Jun 5 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...Red Rock Resorts Inc.operates 20 casinos, employing nearly 14,000 people. Its board of directors, however, has just five members. Two are brothers. All of them are white men... ...
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14. BP Board Will Back Shareholder Push to Align Goals with Paris Climate Agreement
  
  Explore MarketWatch Feb 1 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...e world’s biggest institutional investors, including California Public Employees’ Retirement System, known as CalPERS, HSBC Global Asset Management, Ircantec, and Manulife Asset Management have been working to engage com...
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15. Shareholders Call on ExxonMobil to Set Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets, Energy & Commodities
  
  Explore THE BUSINESS TIMES Dec 17 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...r meeting in the spring of 2019, by other funds including the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), and HSBC Global Asset Management, the statement added. Earlier this month, Royal Dutch Shell set out...
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16. Wells Fargo Shareholders Tepidly Re-elect Bank's Directors
  
  Explore The New York Times Apr 25 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...uesday to re-elect all of the bank’s 15 directors. But some edged in just barely, sending a message that many shareholders want further changes in the bank’s leadership. Activist shareholders had hoped to remove some or ...
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