WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Through an extensive competitive bidding process, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) has awarded CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc. a $121 million contract to configure and implement a new information technology system for the administration of CalSTRS benefits.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s (CalSTRS) Investment Committee adoption last week of updated Corporate Governance Principles, sets the stage for an active proxy season in 2015.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Governor Brown announced today the reappointment of Paul Rosenstiel to the Teachers’ Retirement Board, which oversees the retirement benefits for California’s K-12 and community college educators covered under the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS). Mr. Rosenstiel was first appointed to the board in November 2011.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) received its final $15.6 million payment of compensation from the 1997 sale of the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve as part of the $1.1 trillion budget appropriation bill signed into law today by the President.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s (CalSTRS) Corporate Governance 2014 Annual Report shows its engagement with small-cap companies yielded remarkable progress in the adoption of majority voting standards for the election of corporate directors.
The Corporate Governance 2014 Annual Report reflects four years of work with small-cap companies—those with a capitalization of $2 billion or less—to adopt the majority-vote standard. The standard requires directors to receive a majority of shareholder support to be elected to the board.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s (CalSTRS) eighth annual Green Initiative Task Force 2014 Annual Report shows an almost 300 percent increase in green bond purchases within the Fixed Income portfolio. This year, the Teachers’ Retirement Board identified sustainable investing as a key, strategic priority, which is reflected in the report and other initiatives.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s (CalSTRS) Chief Executive Officer Jack Ehnes expressed his sadness at the passing, on Tuesday November 4, of former CalSTRS CEO Jim Mosman in his longtime hometown of Sacramento. Mr. Mosman led CalSTRS for 12 years from 1988 until 2001.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) announced today the completion of its Investment Branch leadership restructuring with the hiring of its first Chief Operating Investment Officer and two asset class directors.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) issued the following statement about today’s shareholder vote on proxy access at the Oracle Corporation. CalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance Anne Sheehan said:
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A new report from Ceres ranks the nation’s 330 largest insurance companies on their response to climate-related risks and finds a profound lack of preparedness. CalSTRS currently holds $4.3 billion of investments in the insurance sector, which represents 2.4 percent of the overall portfolio. CalSTRS believes that climate-related risks and opportunities can affect the performance of its investments.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Institutional investors representing more than $3 trillion in assets under management, along with some of the nation’s leading women’s organizations, sent letters to 100 companies in the Russell 1000 Index that lack women on their boards of directors, urging them to embrace gender diversity.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) today announced it has received top honors for the portfolio’s 2013-14 performance from iiSEARCHES—Institutional Investor’s investment management, sales and marketing data service.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) Chief Executive Officer Jack Ehnes, announced plans to increase current clean energy and technology investments of $1.4 billion to $3.7 billion over the next five years in an effort to increase low-carbon investments. The move is in response to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call for bold action to reduce carbon emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change ahead of the United Nations Climate Summit on September 23, 2014.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) today announced overwhelming corporate governance success during the 2014 proxy season, as 86 of the 93 companies it engaged adopted a majority voting standard in corporate board elections.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Teachers’ Retirement Board Thursday adopted regulations clarifying what forms of pay can and cannot be credited to California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) members’ defined benefit pension accounts. The regulations apply to members who were hired before the January 1, 2013 effective date of the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act. CalSTRS Deputy Chief Executive Officer Ed Derman issued the following statement.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), in collaboration with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), sent the 131 California companies in their portfolios that lack women directors a letter offering their combined expertise to help diversify their boards.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) today announced the promotion of Lisa Blatnick to Chief of Administrative Services, an executive position focused, in part, on attaining business goals outlined in CalSTRS 2014-15 fiscal year business plan. Ms. Blatnick’s position was effective August 1, 2014.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Continued growth in the equity market, coupled with a bias to U.S. companies, fed a second year of healthy investment returns at the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), which closed the 2013-14 fiscal year with an 18.66 percent return on its investments.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) today announced the election of Corporate Governance Investment Officer Aeisha Mastagni to the Board of Directors of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN).
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) today announced the Monday, June 30, opening of its Irvine Member Service Center. This is the fourth full-service member center, with other service centers in Santa Clara, Glendale and the CalSTRS Headquarters in West Sacramento.
