Asset Management

Calpers appoints Axa Rosenberg for $1bn ‘sustainable’ fund

The largest state pension fund in the US has embarked on an extensive drive for environmental and socially-responsible investments

Saturday 14 July 2018 at 16:02

California, home to West Hollywood and the largest state pension fund in the US
California, home to West Hollywood and the largest state pension fund in the US Photo: Getty Images

Calpers, the world’s fifth-largest pension fund, has recruited the French-owned asset manager Axa Rosenberg as one of its stable of environmentally and socially friendly fund managers.

Calpers, properly known as the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, has $356bn under management and runs most of its equity money in-house. It has been working on integrating environmental, social and corporate-governance metrics into its teams’ investment processes since 2016.