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CalPERS elects new Investment Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs

Friday, February 19, 2016

Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia:

Henry Jones has been elected Chair and Bill Slaton, Vice Chair for the CalPERS Investment Committee.

Jones was elected to the CalPERS Board in 2007 by retired CalPERS members. He was re-elected in 2011 and 2015, and also serves as Vice President. Jones retired as chief financial officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1998. He is also an adjunct professor at California State University, Los Angeles. Slaton was appointed to the CalPERS Board in July 2012 and reappointed in 2014 by Governor Jerry Brown to represent local government. Slaton is an elected member of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Board of Directors. He was first elected to the SMUD Board in November 2002, served two terms as president of the Board (2005 and 2013), and is currently serving as vice president.

Other Investment Committee members are Michael Bilbrey, John Chiang, Richard Costigan, Rob Feckner, Richard Gillihan, Dana Hollinger, JJ Jelincic, Ron Lind, Priya Mathur, Theresa Taylor, and Betty Yee.

The California pension fund serves more than 1.8 million members in the CalPERS retirement system and administers benefits for nearly 1.4 million members and their families in its health program, making it the largest defined-benefit public pension in the U.S. CalPERS' total fund market value currently stands at approximately $278 billion.......................

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