Question

CalPERS, the California Public Employees Retirement System, manages over 240 billion dollars in assets. As an example of shared activism, they review all short- and long-term performance figures for each of the firms in which they invest and then work to ensure shareholder rights by requesting the companies make changes in their governance structure.
a. True
b. False

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct option is true

Explanation:

Shared activism refers to the use of direct action in achieving a goal as in the case of people refusing to leave a house marked for demolition in order to protect the house from being demolished.

CalPERS as a pension fund manager coupled with being a major shareholder in many of the firms where it holds investment has just employed the strategy of direct intervention known as shared activism in order  that the value of its  portfolio is optimized.