US - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has expanded its corporate governance guidelines to measure companies' commitment to environmental issues and to encourage firms to increase women and minority representation on their boards.
The guidelines will be added to the system's Global Principles of Accountable Corporate Governance, which are used by CalPERS to vote proxies, engage management and boards of equity companies, and ...
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