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QIC inks $1bn infrastructure deal with CalPERS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
QIC has formed a $1 billion Asia-Pacific infrastructure partnership with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), one of the largest public pension funds in the United States. Under the terms of the arrangement, QIC will source ...

Super funds too small for activism

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... total returns of 7% per annum over the last 10 years. American pension funds embracing activism are California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) and Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP). ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... salesman. Active managers have also copped flak from the largest public pension fund in the US. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) ditched its hedge fund allocation "as part of an ongoing effort to reduce complexity and costs ...

Mercer expands infrastructure team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... investment leader for the Pacific arm of the investment business. Billimoria joins Mercer from the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), where he was a portfolio manager specialising in infrastructure and forestland. Prior to that ...

CalPERS awards $500m multi-asset mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... has awarded a significant mandate to Standard Life Investments' top-performing multi-asset fund. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is investing US$500 million with the Edinburgh-based investment house. The Standard Life Global ...

CalPERS awards Citi $28bn in securities lending assets

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
A securities lending auction of US$43 billion in US equities for the California Public Employees' Retirement System has awarded Citi exclusive borrowing access to US$28 billion of the assets. The auction was conducted in the by eSecLending, a global ...

US pension funds issue debt ultimatum

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... Congress to act immediately on US debt or risk long term damage to the country's retirement savings. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) released a statement including a letter addressed to Obama and the members of congress ...

No pension for corrupt Bell staff

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... staff following investigations into salary corruption among some of the city's top officials. The California Public Employees' Retirement System said it would not pay pensions of a number of City of Bell employees, including those of the Californian ...

CalPERS deploys US$500m into ESG, OTPP buys Chunnel link

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... actively pursuing investment opportunities this week, and in typically unconventional fashion. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has invested $500 million into a new internally managed environmental investment strategy; while ...

CalPERS shifts $1bn to GID

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... billion core multifamily apartment portfolio to long-term partner GID Investment Advisers LLC (GID). The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) said that it made the decision to advance its real estate restructuring plan through the ...