WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today announced Jeff Zimmer as its Director of Benefits and Services Business Transformation. Mr. Zimmer will report to Benefits and Services Executive Officer Andrew Roth and Technology Services Executive Officer Ashish Jain.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. –The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today announced the appointment of Joycelyn Martinez-Wade as Director of Governmental Relations.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System announced today that it waged a highly successful proxy season campaign to advance the majority vote standard in board of director elections at public companies. CalSTRS engaged 106 companies, 94 of which adopted the standard before it went to a vote.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System last Thursday, July 14, approved policy changes to the Corporate Governance Principles which establish the high-level framework, proxy voting activities and shareholder priorities.
WEST SACRAMENTO, CALIF. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System remains on track for full funding by the year 2046 after announcing today that it ended the 2015-16 fiscal year on June 30, 2016 with a 1.4 percent net return. The three-year net return is 7.8 percent, and over five years, 7.7 percent net.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today committed up to $2.5 billion to low-carbon strategies in U.S., non-U.S. developed and emerging equity markets.
The passively managed equity portfolio will be invested in an index designed to have significantly lower exposure to carbon emissions than the broad market and nearly complete reduction in exposure to fossil fuel reserves.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System retained the services of the foreign litigation finance group, Bentham Europe, and the international law firm, Quinn Emanuel, which yesterday filed the first of two suits in Germany against Volkswagen AG on behalf of hundreds of institutional funds. The total value of the claims filed yesterday is very significant indeed with shareholders having collectively lost many hundreds of millions of euros, citing the automaker’s admission that it deliberately installed software that misrepresented air quality and emissions information on millions of so-called “clean diesel” vehicles.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System received the Association of Asian American Investment Managers 2016 Founder’s Award today. The award is a one-time honor being given in celebration of AAAIM’s 10th Anniversary.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Today, Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard of the Delaware Court of Chancery issued an Order granting Wal-Mart’s motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ Complaint in In re Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Delaware Derivative Litigation. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the New York City Retirement Funds, and the Indiana Electrical Workers Pension Trust Fund IBEW are Co-Lead Plaintiffs in the case.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today announced the release of its second annual Global Reporting Initiative sustainability report: Fostering a Secure Future. The report provides an overview of CalSTRS’ sustainable practices and performance, including overviews of stakeholder, employee and member engagement; a description of the alignment between CalSTRS’ values and those of its business partners; and, examples of workforce activities promoting sustainable economic, environmental and social business practices, which guide its long-term strategy.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The directors of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s Corporate Governance and Innovation & Risk units received awards from Institutional Investor Magazine last night at a Los Angeles awards ceremony.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today announced that, for the fourth year in a row, a member of the fund’s investment staff was named to Chief Investment Officer magazine’s influential “Forty Under Forty” list of up-and-coming investment professionals under the age of 40.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today released its 2015 Corporate Governance Annual Report highlighting a successful engagement plan, which resulted in 375 companies adopting a majority vote standard.
“In 2010, CalSTRS’ Corporate Governance program implemented an engagement plan focused on 26 smaller cap companies,” said CalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance Anne Sheehan. “And, as a result of the effort, 80 percent of those companies moved from a plurality to a majority vote standard.”
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The trustees of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System today elected Dana Dillon as board chair and Sharon Hendricks as vice chair for the 2016-17 term.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today released the actuarial valuation of the Defined Benefit Program as of June 30, 2015, reflecting the importance of adequate funding over the long term.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today announced the appointment of Sandy Blair to Director of Retirement Readiness. In her new role, Ms. Blair, the director of CalSTRS Defined Contribution Solutions business unit since 2013, will also oversee CalSTRS member benefits education efforts, field benefits operations, and member and employer outreach activities.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System demonstrated its ongoing commitment to “moving the needle” on gender diversity by spearheading the “Beyond Talk: Taking Action to Achieve Gender Balance in the Financial World” networking workshop, along with State Street Global Advisors, on March 8 in San Francisco.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today announced plans to participate in a German securities litigation suit against Volkswagen AG, citing the automaker’s admission that it deliberately installed software that misrepresented air quality and emissions information on millions of so-called “clean diesel” vehicles.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Faculty Association of California Community Colleges has named Teachers’ Retirement Board Vice-Chair Sharon Hendricks a co-recipient of the John Vasconcellos Advocate of the Year award for 2016. Sharing the honor with Ms. Hendricks is co-recipient Lynn Shaw, an instructor of electrical technology at Long Beach City College.
