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Articles mentioning both CalPERS and CEO

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1. Behind That Bombshell Shareholder Resolution at Costco
  
  Explore InvestmentNews Feb 3 2022 BoardNews
  
  ..., accounts for 10% of greenhouse gases, Green Century noted. The Costco resolution was a trial, Green Century CEO Leslie Samuelrich said. “We were filing this first-of-its-kind proposal to see if it would get through the...
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2. Public Company Guide—Planning for Shareholder Engagement
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Aug 10 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...and 150 companies on social risks. Similarly, in his CEO’s Letter for 2021, Cyrus Taraporevala, President and CEO of State Street Global Advisors, noted that State Street would focus on climate-related risks and diversit...
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3. Connecting the Dots: Breaking the ESG Code
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jul 25 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...nce of the Big Three (i.e., Blackrock, SSGA, Vanguard), along with the larger state pensions like CalSTRS and CalPERS (also generally considered “passive”), resulted in a unique power shift, in both assets managed and vo...
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4. CalPERS to Back Activist's Four Director Nominees in Exxon Board Fight
  
  Explore Start Magazine Apr 27 2021 BoardNews
  
  ...even Kandarian, former Caterpillar Inc CEO Douglas Oberhelman and former International Business Machines Corp CEO Samuel Palmisano. (Reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Jennifer Hiller; Editing by Chris Reese and Peter ...
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5. Calpers Takes Aim at CEO Pay and Questions Shareholder Behavior
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jul 24 2020 BoardNews
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Many chief executive officers at U.S. companies are paid too much -- and investors arent holding corporate boards accountable, a senior official at the countrys largest public pension fund said...
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6. Inflated CEO Pay Isn’t the Only Problem with Qualcomm Stock
  
  Explore Best Stocks Mar 17 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...d more to do with how other companies are paying their CEOs. That’s led to massive inflation when it comes to CEO pay. Meanwhile, average rank-and-file employees make do with 2-3% raises, if that. Here’s what I had to sa...
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7. Board Composition and Shareholder Proposals
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jan 28 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ic diversity and calling on companies to adopt a version of the Rooney Rule for every open board seat and for CEO appointments. The SEC has not taken much action on this topic, but in February 2019, the SEC staff release...
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8. 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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9. Special Report: Index Funds Invest Trillions But Rarely Challenge Management
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and News Oct 8 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...iversalist Association. “The votes definitely matter,” he said. CalPERS investment director Simiso Nzima said CEO pay design would improve if other big investors voted more critically. “Talking to companies behind the sc...
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10. Calpers Diversity Push Blends Social-Investing Camps
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Jun 18 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ... improving board diversity, according to Bloomberg News. So far, there isn’t enough evidence to judge whether Calpers’s diversity campaign is likely to pay off, but the effort is noteworthy because it blends two distinct...
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11. The Most Overpaid CEOs: Are Fund Managers Asleep at The Wheel?
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Mar 30 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...s increased the number of S&P 500 CEO pay packages that it voted against by a factor of almost eight. In 2013 CalPERS opposed only 6.4 percent of S&P 500 CEO pay packages, last year CalPERS opposed 45 percent of them. Fi...
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12. 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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13. Disney Slashed Iger's Pay—Calpers Still Gives It Thumbs Down
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Mar 6 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... 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 Lagomasino, two Disney directors who sit on its compensation comm...
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14. The Road Ahead for Shareholder Activism
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Feb 13 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...lowing: After Detour Gold had added two dissident directors to its own slate and had committed to replace its CEO, institutional investor BMO voiced support for the Detour Gold slate in the proxy contest with activist Pa...
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15. BP Board Will Back Shareholder Push to Align Goals with Paris Climate Agreement
  
  Explore MarketWatch Feb 1 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...in the oil and gas sector,” said Emma Herd, a member of the global Climate Action 100+ Steering Committee and CEO, Investor Group on Climate (IGCC). See also: New report expected to boost push to make company climate-ris...
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16. Shell, Total Are Big Oil Standouts as Investors Can Track Carbon
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Nov 7 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...a plan to cut its net carbon footprint in half by 2050, including reducing emissions from its customers. BP’s CEO Bob Dudley has also fought off calls to set more specific targets, arguing they are material for class-act...
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17. Calpers Ups Pressure on Companies Over Executive Pay, Harassment -
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Sep 18 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... involving executives or directors, and develop policies to claw back compensation if such misconduct occurs. Calpers, based in Sacramento, has about $350 billion under management and serves 1.9 million public employees,...
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18. CalPERS Turns Focus to Board Diversity in Proxy Voting
  
  Explore Pensions & Investments Sep 17 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...comparison, in 2017, CalPERS had voted against 6,509 non-independent directors at 864 companies. In the U.S., CalPERS in the 2018 proxy season implemented an enhanced voting practice on executive compensation, voting aga...
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