--- id: 420 title: "CalPERS Wins USA Corporate Governance Award 2013" award_year: 2013 published: 2013-04-02 09:00:27 published_gmt: 2013-04-02 09:00:27 author: "CFI.co Editorial" url: "https://cfi.co/awards/north-america/2013/calpers-wins-usa-corporate-governance-award-2013/" categories: ["Best Practice", "Corporate Governance", "North America"] content_class: award_rationale independence_status: independent_editorial sponsor_disclosure: none editorial_lens: constructive_positive_lens historical_status: current_at_publication correction_status: none archive_policy: no_delete provenance_layer: github_versioned wayback_status: archived wayback_first_snapshot: 20140409063343 wayback_snapshot_url: "http://web.archive.org/web/20140409063343/http://cfi.co/awards/north-america/2013/calpers-wins-usa-corporate-governance-award-2013/" license: CFI-OAAL-1.0 content_sha256: a77207087025bc0dd5bf8d5868be286378f4273ff104429a98cfe49d4d9d1af3 canonical: 420-calpers-wins-usa-corporate-governance-award-2013.json --- # CalPERS Wins USA Corporate Governance Award 2013 > Verbatim archived copy. Canonical machine record: `420-calpers-wins-usa-corporate-governance-award-2013.json`.

calPERS

CalPERS stands out as an example of the highest level of corporate governance and wins the 2013 award in the United States.

CalPERS provides retirement and health benefits to some 1.6 million public sector employees and retirees in California and the Company is responsible for nearly $250 billion in funds. Not only are CalPERS’s internal standards exemplary they are also provide a driving force domestically and internationally in improving levels of corporate governance. Sharing their expertise in effective governance with companies it which it invests, the CalPERS hands on approach to investment is helping to ensure that shareholder and all other stakeholder benefits are maximised.