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California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS)

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System was established by law in 1913 to provide retirement benefits to California’s public-school educators from prekindergarten through community college. Today, CalSTRS is the largest educator-only pension fund in the world, and the second largest pension fund in the U.S.

Country

United States

AUM ($B)

$309

Performance

27.2

Chief Executive

Cassandra Lichnock

Chief Investment Officer

Chris Ailman

Chair

Harry M. Keiley

Asset allocation

The key goal of the asset allocation process is to develop an asset allocation policy that maximizes the likelihood that an investment portfolio’s assets will, over the planning horizon, fund plan benefits.

49.7% Public Equity

12.3% Real estate

10.4% Fixed Income

8.6% Risk mitigating strategies

12.0% Private Equity

3.7% Inflation sensitive

0.5% Innovative strategies

2.8% Strategic overlay and cash

Website

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Global Pension Transparency Benchmark country system description

Asset allocation as of November 30, 2021. All information is as per the most recent annual report or other publicly available data via the fund's website

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