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Infrastructure wins pension funds votes

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... said the report penned by Georg Inderst. One of the US's largest pension funds, California Public Employees' Retirement System, adopted a new investment policy in 2008 with a target 3 per cent allocation of assets, or $11.2 billion in infrastructure. ...

PE group adopts ESG

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
US based Private Equity Council (PEC) members have agreed to integrate governance, social, health, labour and environmental issues into their investment processes. The guidelines were signed after a meeting with PEC and some of the worlds' largest institutional ...

CalPERS grows green strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... per cent of its energy use in 2007 and boosted its bottom line. The $278 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) made the 13.3 per cent reduction across 2007 among its real estate partners. The goal of the fund's Energy Efficiency ...

US resi housing collapse hits CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
The $296 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has suffered a 35 per cent write-down in the market value of its $15 billion residential housing portfolio. Latest figures from CalPERS' assessment of its housing portfolio showed ...

New dynamics, new realities: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... UK, Scotland and other European countries." And these Australians are the changing demographic base that the retirement system will have to cater for in the future. Joining Ramos-Horta as a keynote speaker on the first day of the ASFA conference held ...

Private equity crunch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... increased their private equity allocations in the last five years. Last December, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) reset its allocation to private equity from 6 per cent to 10 per cent. Eight months on, the fund was forced ...

CalPERS halts lending to big four

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
The $274 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has temporarily stopped the lending of troubled Wachovia, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and State Street shares. Anne Stausboll, interim chief investment officer of CalPERS ...

CalPERS unveils infrastructure plan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
America's largest pension fund California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is rolling out a two-year specialised investment strategy for infrastructure - heralding its interest in increased portfolio diversity. According to a statement ...

CalPERS to suffer 2.4 pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
The $246 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System is expected to post losses of 2.4 per cent for the end of this financial year, an enviable performance if compared to the average 6.4 per cent loss of local super funds. Preliminary estimates ...

US pension fund to settle suit for $930m

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... policy and pay a $930 million cheque for wrongful share trading. The $244 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) fund yesterday announced a proposed $930 million (US$865 million) settlement of a class-action lawsuit against ...