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2. 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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  Mentions: Diversity Leadership Opinion
3. 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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  Mentions: Board Diversity Calpers Board of Directors
4. 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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  Mentions: Dodd-Frank Investment Corporate Governance
5. 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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  Mentions: Jim Cramer Disney Twenty-First Century Fox
6. 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 Disney
7. The Road Ahead for Shareholder Activism
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Feb 13 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...he race, gender and skills of their directors. Also of note, institutional investors BlackRock, State Street, CalPERS and CalSTRS all have added board diversity to their voting policies (and California has adopted a firs...
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  Mentions: Investors Hedge Fund Citigroup
8. 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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9. 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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  Mentions: Management Investors HSBC
10. Pension Politics: Should States Be Investing in Controversial Companies?
  
  Explore Governing magazine Dec 12 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...nable Investment Program, couldn’t agree more with taking the emotion out of investment decisions. This year, CalPERS revamped its investment division, created a new one to monitor ESG investing across its entire portfol...
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  Mentions: Investment Management Walmart
11. 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
12. Shell, Total Are Big Oil Standouts as Investors Can Track Carbon
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Nov 7 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...ransition Pathway Initiative, a global program to cut climate risks, which is supported by managers including CalPERS and BNP Paribas Asset Management. “TPI research raises very important questions about how investors su...
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  Mentions: Management Investors ConocoPhillips
13. 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
  
  ... BlackRock, CalPERS and other influential governance critics are asking two stock exchanges for more fairness in voting rights. A group representing funds and firms petitioned the New York Stock Exchange and NA...
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  Mentions: Management Public Companies Investors
14. 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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  Mentions: Executive Compensation Investment Corporate Governance
15. 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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  Mentions: Board Diversity Diversity Investment
16. Calpers’ Bet on Sacramento’s Planned Tallest Tower Splits Board
  
  Explore wsj.com Sep 4 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...e concerned the 550-foot project represents too much risk. During a private meeting earlier this summer three Calpers directors voted against a new $550 million commitment to the proposed office-condominium-retail comple...
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  Mentions: risk Calpers
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