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Articles mentioning both CalPERS and California

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1. Boards Face More Challenging 2022 Proxy season on ESG
  
  Explore Financial News and Analysis Feb 25 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ...al investors — including BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard and California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) — by arguing that Exxon had wasted capital on oil projects that yielded meager returns while ballooni...
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  Mentions: Conference Investment State Street
2. California's Board Gender Law Propels Women into Corporate Seats
  
  Explore sandiegouniontribune.com Dec 26 2021 BoardNews
  
  ...s ago, said the California Partners Project, an advocacy group tracking the impact of the legislation. Across California, women now hold 29 percent of public company board seats, up from 15.5 percent in 2018. “I think it...
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  Mentions: Leadership Goldman Sachs State Street
3. 2021 Proxy Season Review: Shareholder Proposals on Environmental Matters
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Aug 12 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...proposal, investors (including institutional investors such as California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS)) sent a strong signal about the relative importance of climate-related matters this year when they su...
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4. CalPERS to Back Activist's Four Director Nominees in Exxon Board Fight
  
  Explore Start Magazine Apr 27 2021 BoardNews
  
  ... in its proxy fight with the company... BOSTON (Reuters) -The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) said on Monday it plans to vote for Engine No. 1's four director nominees to Exxon Mobil Corp's board...
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  Mentions: Hedge Fund Proxy Fight Exxon Mobil
5. California to Probe Investment Complaints Tied to Former CalPERS CIO: WSJ
  
  Explore KFGO The Mighty 790 AM Aug 18 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...California's Fair Political Practices Commission has opened a probe into whether the former investment chief of CalPERS, the largest public U.S. pension fund, violated conflict-of-interest laws... ...
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  Mentions: Investment California CIO
6. Board Composition and Shareholder Proposals
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jan 28 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...minished board independence from management. For example, The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Global Governance Principles state that “director independence can be compromised at 12 years of serv...
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  Mentions: Management Citigroup Vanguard
7. Should CEOs Double as Board Chairs? Increasingly S&P 500 Companies are Saying No
  
  Explore KAKE.com Oct 31 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...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 separation of roles except in very limited circumstances...
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8. Special Report: Index Funds Invest Trillions But Rarely Challenge Management
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and News Oct 8 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...rnia utility PG&E Corp after its stock plummeted over potential liability from maintenance problems linked to California wildfires. The funds supported big pay packages for executives at beauty products company Coty Inc ...
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  Mentions: Management State Street Vanguard
9. Calpers Diversity Push Blends Social-Investing Camps
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Jun 18 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...fornia Public Employees Retirement System is after the new holy grail of investing: Doing well by doing good. Calpers, the largest U.S. pension fund with roughly $360 billion in assets, sponsored a proposal at casino ope...
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10. The Most Overpaid CEOs: Are Fund Managers Asleep at The Wheel?
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Mar 30 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ay packages they vote against. The largest U.S. pension fund, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS, with assets of over $350B) has increased the number of S&P 500 CEO pay packages that it voted against...
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11. Bob Iger's Reduced Compensation at Disney Gets Approved by Slim Majority
  
  Explore Stock Market Today Mar 7 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... more than $8 million and another $18 million in bonuses. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers), which holds 3.2 million Disney shares, came out against the compensation package, as did fellow inst...
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12. Disney Slashed Iger's Pay—Calpers Still Gives It Thumbs Down
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Mar 6 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...he reductions in Iger’s compensation mitigate its concerns but the change was too late to alter its position. Calpers also voted against the re-election of General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra and money manager Maria Elena Lag...
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  Mentions: Annual Meeting General Motors ISS
13. The Road Ahead for Shareholder Activism
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Feb 13 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ors BlackRock, State Street, CalPERS and CalSTRS all have added board diversity to their voting policies (and California has adopted a first-of-its-kind law requiring a minimum number of female directors on the boards of...
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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. Pension Politics: Should States Be Investing in Controversial Companies?
  
  Explore Governing magazine Dec 12 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...evaluate their gun-related holdings. Amid the outcry, California Treasurer John Chiang went before his fellow CalPERS board members to request they divest from national retailers selling guns that are illegal in Californ...
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17. The Law of Unintended Consequences: The Case of Proxy Advisory Firms
  
  Explore forbes.com Nov 15 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ... these costs. Take California as an example. As newly-elected CalPERS Board member Jason Perez estimated, the CalPERS ESG program toward tobacco cost the retirement fund $8 billion, which is sizable relative to Californi...
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  Mentions: Conference Proxy Advisory Conflict of Interest
18. Big Asset Managers like BlackRock are Pressuring Stock Exchanges to Limit a Growing Practice that 'Poses Danger' to Young Companies
  
  Explore Business Insider Oct 25 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...t deems unequal voting rights at public companies... A group that represents big funds like BlackRock and the California State Teachers' Retirement System is seeking to limit what it deems unequal voting rights at public...
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19. Wells Fargo Shareholders Tepidly Re-elect Bank's Directors
  
  Explore The New York Times Apr 25 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...ith the company’s reformation. Some giant pension funds — like Calpers, which manages the retirement funds of California’s public employees, and its New York City counterpart — cast their votes against most of Wells’s bo...
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