Category: state pension funds

State Pension Funds Defy Anti-ESG Laws When Voting Their Shares, Watchdog Charges

Conservative states working to keep state funds out of the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement are finding that, when it comes to state fund managers, you can lead them to water but can’t always make them drink. Despite recent laws in states like Florida and Ohio banning the use of municipal dollars for…


State Treasurers Demand Answers on How Asset Managers Vote Their Pension Shares

Amid claims of “a historic breach of fiduciary duty,” by some of Wall Street’s top firms, state treasurers issued a letter last week to 20 of America’s largest asset managers, demanding an accounting of how they have voted the state employees’ corporate shares that they control. In a May 15 Wall Street Journal op-ed, the…