CalPERS

US - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is in search of a manager to provide index fund products for six of its trust funds.

US - California governor Edmund Brown yesterday introduced a raft of state pension reforms that could introduce a hybrid scheme for new employees, increases the retirement age for new hires and increases pension contributions for all employees, among...

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GLOBAL - Have you missed the biggest stories in pensions this week? Find out below, as we list the top 10 most popular stories on www.globalpensions.com over the past seven days.

US - The board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System renewed the contracts of the 16 external managers responsible for its $123.3bn global equity portfolio.

UK - Shareholder activism has been trivialised and dismissed by policymakers, delegates at a responsible investment conference heard yesterday.

US - The assets for the nation's 100 largest public employee pensions systems rose more than 1% to $2.8trn during the second quarter, figures from the Census Bureau show.

GLOBAL - Have you missed the biggest stories in pensions this week? Find out below, as we list the top 10 most popular stories on www.globalpensions.com over the past seven days.

Global - Half of the Global Pensions 100 Panel believe the Securities and Exchange Commission should issue new regulations on proxy access after its original rules on the matter were overturned in the courts.

US - The chief investment officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the nation's largest pension fund, said it will be difficult to hit its 7.75% target in the coming years.