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CalSTRS overlays its fuzzy buckets

After deciding at the last investment committee meeting to employ a new way of evaluating portfolio risk which overlays risk across asset classes, rather than replacing asset classes with risk categories, CalSTRS now just has to work out how to do it. Amanda White spoke with chief investment officer Chris Ailman about the fund’s journey […]

Amanda WhiteFebruary 23, 2011

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CalSTRS plugs holes in neat buckets with risk overlays

CalSTRS will employ a new way of evaluating portfolio risk which overlays risk across asset classes, rather than replacing asset classes with risk categories, and introduces six broad risk factors.

Amanda WhiteFebruary 16, 2011

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Putting your footprint where your mouth is: CalSTRS reports on carbon emissions

In the latest move to demonstrate the same commitment to climate change it expects from its portfolio companies, CalSTRS has signed The Climate Registry, a leading voluntary greenhouse gas registry in North America. The $147 billion fund will report on its carbon footprint, which was dramatically reduced when it moved into its new building in […]

Amanda WhiteJanuary 25, 2011

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Why politics and pension fund management don’t mix

Thomas P DiNapoli was given a little scare in the recent US mid-term elections but, in the end, was returned fairly comfortably to his position of New York State Comptroller and sole trustee of the New York State pension fund. What happens next, though, may be more interesting.

GREG BRIGHTNovember 24, 2010

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Climate-change investors damn US weakness

A group of more than 250 institutional investors has damned individual country national policies, particularly highlighting inadequacies in the US, as preventing more private capital flowing into climate change-related investments. The collaborative stance comes ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico.

Amanda WhiteNovember 17, 2010

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DiNapoli’s first snag at NY State fund as markets sour again

After three tumultuous years of reforms including a raft of new policies and procedures at the third-largest pension fund in the US, culminating in a 25.9 per cent return last year, Thomas DiNapoli, the New York State Comptroller, has hit a snag in the last quarter.

GREG BRIGHTSeptember 8, 2010

Investor Profile

CalSTRS overlays its fuzzy buckets

Uncategorised posts

CalSTRS plugs holes in neat buckets with risk overlays

Uncategorised posts

Putting your footprint where your mouth is: CalSTRS reports on carbon emissions

Uncategorised posts

Why politics and pension fund management don’t mix

Uncategorised posts

Climate-change investors damn US weakness

Uncategorised posts

DiNapoli’s first snag at NY State fund as markets sour again

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