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CalPERS awards Citi $28bn in securities lending assets

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... agent, with the remainder of securities lending assets auctioned by the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) awarded to other participating bidders and to eSecLending's discretionary lending program. "We are thrilled to have won these ...

AustralianSuper talks scale, further growth

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... super market, but we are not huge." Curtis said he recently spoke with the chief operating officer of US pension fund CalPERS who said that she didn't expect scale to kick in until they hit $500 billion, saying it was all a state of growth. "We think ...

ACSI remands News Corp governance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... is still important to show a clear position in favour of better governance practices. America's largest pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTERS are already behind the push for change at News Corp while ACSI has communicated it stance to independent directors ...

ACSI chief exec Byrne wins PRI election

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... after two separate elections took place in New York. Representatives of two asset owners, PFZW of the Netherlands and CalPERS of the US were also elected. Frank Pegan, chief executive officer of Catholic Super, Denis Donohue, managing director of Solaris ...

US pension funds issue debt ultimatum

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... 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, signed by 10 pension funds, representing ...

CalPERS returns 12.5pc in 2010

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
CalPERS, the largest pension fund in the US, achieved a 12.5 percent net return on investments for the 2010 calendar year, pushing its assets under management to US$225.7 billion. While the returns mark the second straight calendar year of double-digit ...

Pay performance fees only, says $220b fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... fees be incentive based - and other remuneration structures discarded. The board of administration of US pension behemoth CalPERS, which has over US$220 billion in assets, last night issued a number of recommendations pertaining to the fund's use of ...

No pension for corrupt Bell staff

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
The largest pension fund in the US, CalPERS, will not pay the pensions of certain City of Bell staff following investigations into salary corruption among some of the city's top officials. The California Public Employees' Retirement System said it would ...

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

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... 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 Canada's Ontario Teachers' ...

Toll roads lead global $50bn M&A activity

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... they (UBS) are taking account of is the existing players in infrastructure, but that's ignoring big pensions funds like CalPERS and CalSTRS," said Meaney, adding that the $200bn CalPERS said it intends to invest into infrastructure. "Start adding those ...