US - The board at the US$210bn California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has banned investments in nine companies that do business in Sudan and called on other companies to severe ties with the genocide-linked country.
Board president Rob Feckner said the fund would also continue “constructive engagement” to ensure not other companies it invested in were linked to genocide in the troubled country, and urged the f...
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