WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (May 11, 2018) – The trustees of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System yesterday elected Dana Dillon as board chair and Sharon Hendricks as vice chair for the 2018-19 term. The Teachers’ Retirement Board nominates and elects its chair and vice chair annually. The newly-elected officers assume their posts immediately. The chair and vice chair provide board leadership for the largest educator-only pension fund in the world.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (May 10, 2018) – The Teachers’ Retirement Board today adopted the results of the actuarial valuation for the CalSTRS Defined Benefit Program as of June 30, 2017, reflecting impacts from investment assumption changes while also noting continued progress toward the system’s long-term funding goals.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (May 9, 2018) – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today unveiled a plan to prioritize engagement with makers and retailers of firearms that are illegal in California. The plan, approved unanimously by the Teachers’ Retirement Board, authorizes CalSTRS corporate governance staff to make firearms engagement activities a top priority by publicly engaging companies and potentially recommending that the board consider divestment if engagement efforts fail.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today released its 2016 Corporate Governance Annual Report. The report highlights the Corporate Governance staff efforts in, among other issues, regulatory activities, proxy voting and portfolio company engagement.
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 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. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System received the Award of Innovation for its redesigned 403bCompare website from Pensions & Investments magazine and the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer Christopher J. Ailman made the following statement regarding the strong shareholder support Nelson Peltz received at today’s vote for a position on the board of directors at Procter & Gamble.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – CalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance Anne Sheehan made the following statement regarding the organization’s intent to support the nomination of Nelson Peltz to the board of directors at Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG).
WEST SACRAMENTO, CA – Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission released a proposed rule that would require all public companies to disclose a comparison of the Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO) compensation to that of the median income of company employees—otherwise known as pay ratio disclosure.
WEST SACRAMENTO, CA – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) released, “Lessons Learned: The Inaugural Year of Say-on-Pay,” its analysis of shareholders’ ability to vote on executive compensation, known as say-on-pay, during the 2011 proxy season.
WEST SACRAMENTO, CA– The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) announced today it will vote against the advisory vote approving executive compensation and the election of all incumbent board members at Occidental Petroleum’s (NYSE: OXY) 2010 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on May 7.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today praised Banc of California’s announcement that it has added Mary Allis Curran and Dr. Bonnie Guiton Hill to its board of directors. CalSTRS worked together with investment partners Legion Partners Asset Management, LLC and Banc of California to identify the best board candidates.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System today announced the Diverse Director DataSource (3D) will now be available through the Equilar Diversity Network.
We are writing today to inform you of our intention to vote against the Board’s amendment to the Bank of America bylaws, which would provide for either an independent Chair or a Lead Independent Director. We have stated many times in previous correspondence that CalSTRS fundamentally supports a leadership structure with an independent Chair. We believe the roles of CEO and Chair of the Board, have inherent conflicts which require the two posts to be separate and independent.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Feb. 8, 2018) – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System presented its 11th annual Green Initiative Task Force Report yesterday at the Teachers’ Retirement Board Investment Committee meeting. The report highlights CalSTRS environmental-themed investments and environmental risk-management efforts.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – CalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance Anne Sheehan made the following statement regarding the recent letter issued to Apple Inc. on January 6, 2018.
CalSTRS is one of the founders of the Investor Stewardship Group. The ISG is a collective of some of the largest U.S.-based institutional investors and global asset managers, along with several of their international counterparts. It was formed to develop a sustained initiative to establish a framework of basic standards of investment stewardship and corporate governance for U.S. institutional investor and boardroom conduct. The ISG is being led by the senior corporate governance practitioners at institutional investor and investment management firms.
The ISG brings all types of investors together to enable them to speak with one voice on these fundamental issues of corporate governance and investment stewardship.
Annual Report
CalSTRS Corporate Governance Program Elevated Its Voice on Policy in 2016
2016 annual report highlights success of key initiatives, collaborations and a glimpse into plans for 2017
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today released its 2016 Corporate Governance Annual Report. The report highlights the Corporate Governance staff efforts in, among other issues, regulatory activities, proxy voting and portfolio company engagement.
CalSTRS Corporate Governance Achieves 97 percent Success Rate in the Adoption of the Majority Vote Standard
Five-year engagement plan demonstrates better alignment of board and shareholder interests.
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.”
Majority Voting Standard Gains Ground, CalSTRS Corporate Governance Annual Report Shows
The 2nd annual report shows that 92 out of 100 companies engaged adopted majority voting
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.
Proxy Voting
CalSTRS 403bCompare Website Wins Award of Innovation
The redesigned website’s second award is its first from the investment industry.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System received the Award of Innovation for its redesigned 403bCompare website from Pensions & Investments magazine and the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association.
CalSTRS Statement on Procter & Gamble Co. Board of Directors Vote
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer Christopher J. Ailman made the following statement regarding the strong shareholder support Nelson Peltz received at today’s vote for a position on the board of directors at Procter & Gamble.
CalSTRS Statement of Support for Nelson Peltz for P&G Board
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – CalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance Anne Sheehan made the following statement regarding the organization’s intent to support the nomination of Nelson Peltz to the board of directors at Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG).
Executive Compensation
CalSTRS’ Statement on the SEC Proposed Rule for Executive Compensation Disclosure
WEST SACRAMENTO, CA – Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission released a proposed rule that would require all public companies to disclose a comparison of the Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO) compensation to that of the median income of company employees—otherwise known as pay ratio disclosure.
CalSTRS Analysis of 2011 Say-on-Pay Proxy Voting Available Online
CalSTRS Corporate Governance offers a lessons learned analysis for the first year of mandatory say-on-pay for most U.S. Corporations
WEST SACRAMENTO, CA – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) released, “Lessons Learned: The Inaugural Year of Say-on-Pay,” its analysis of shareholders’ ability to vote on executive compensation, known as say-on-pay, during the 2011 proxy season.
CalSTRS to Oppose Occidental Petroleum Executive Compensation Advisory Vote
Letter to director critical of ‘wildly excessive pay’ in excess of peer group median.
WEST SACRAMENTO, CA – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) announced today it will vote against the advisory vote approving executive compensation and the election of all incumbent board members at Occidental Petroleum’s (NYSE: OXY) 2010 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on May 7.
Board Diversity
CalSTRS and Banc of California Collaboration Creates a More Diversified Board
Appointments of two women to previously all male board are a result of collaborative engagement
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today praised Banc of California’s announcement that it has added Mary Allis Curran and Dr. Bonnie Guiton Hill to its board of directors. CalSTRS worked together with investment partners Legion Partners Asset Management, LLC and Banc of California to identify the best board candidates.
Diverse Director DataSource Joins the Equilar Diversity Network
Database matches candidates and companies to help improve corporate board strength and diversity
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System today announced the Diverse Director DataSource (3D) will now be available through the Equilar Diversity Network.
CalSTRS Letter to Bank of America Regarding Intent to Vote Against Bylaw Amendment
We are writing today to inform you of our intention to vote against the Board’s amendment to the Bank of America bylaws, which would provide for either an independent Chair or a Lead Independent Director. We have stated many times in previous correspondence that CalSTRS fundamentally supports a leadership structure with an independent Chair. We believe the roles of CEO and Chair of the Board, have inherent conflicts which require the two posts to be separate and independent.
Sustainability Risk Management
CalSTRS Green Initiative Task Force Report Evaluates ESG Risks
Each asset class presents methods used to identify and evaluate environmental risks.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Feb. 8, 2018) – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System presented its 11th annual Green Initiative Task Force Report yesterday at the Teachers’ Retirement Board Investment Committee meeting. The report highlights CalSTRS environmental-themed investments and environmental risk-management efforts.
CalSTRS Statement Regarding Shareholder Letter to Apple Inc.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – CalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance Anne Sheehan made the following statement regarding the recent letter issued to Apple Inc. on January 6, 2018.
Leading Investors Launch Historic Initiative Focused on U.S. Institutional Investor Stewardship and Corporate Governance
Unveils Framework of Guiding Principles with Expectation of Long-Term Value Creation, Investor Protection
CalSTRS is one of the founders of the Investor Stewardship Group. The ISG is a collective of some of the largest U.S.-based institutional investors and global asset managers, along with several of their international counterparts. It was formed to develop a sustained initiative to establish a framework of basic standards of investment stewardship and corporate governance for U.S. institutional investor and boardroom conduct. The ISG is being led by the senior corporate governance practitioners at institutional investor and investment management firms.
The ISG brings all types of investors together to enable them to speak with one voice on these fundamental issues of corporate governance and investment stewardship.