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CalPERS

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is the largest pension fund in the United States, with $250 billion in assets ($150 billion in equities). CalPERS discloses its votes for a subset of the companies it owns.

Overall
activism
score

56.6

Percentile

90

What does this mean?

This fund has voted against the recommendation of management on 56.6% of the proposals it has faced. This makes it more activist than 90% of the funds in our database, as shown by the small blue and red plot above.

Activism Profile

Issue area	Activism Score	Activism Percentile	Activism Plot
Directors D	6.8	54
Executive compensation EC	42.6	90
Corporate governance CG	90.6	96
Corporate impact CI	86.4	96

Activism footprint: More activist funds have larger footprints. Each corner depicts the fund's activism percentile on one issue area. (More detailed explanation)

Detailed Vote Record

	Activism Score	Activism Plot	Votes
Directors			Against mgmt	With mgmt	Abstain
Director Election	6.8		209	2,866	0
Executive compensation
Management Proposals	12.0		25	184	0
Shareholder Proposals	73.2		115	42	0
Corporate governance
Board Independence and Performance	71.7		43	17	0
Voting Rules	100.0		48	0	0
Takeover Defenses	100.0		24	0	0
Corporate impact
Employment and Working Conditions	80.5		33	8	0
Environmental and Social	89.7		87	10	0
Political Influence and Charitable Contributions	89.1		49	6	0