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Ohio

Ohio has four main public pension funds:

  • The OPERS board represents state employees, local government employees, and employees of participating agencies; the board consists of 11 members: 1 Ex Officio (Director of the Department of Administrative Services); 1 appointed by the Governor; 1 appointed by the Treasurer; 1 appointed by the General Assembly; 7 elected by OPERS members.
    • OPERS discloses its proxy voting records on this website.
  • The STRS board represents state public school teachers and consists of 11 members: 5 elected contributing teacher members; 2 elected retired teacher members; an investment expert appointed by the governor; an investment expert appointed jointly by the speaker of the House and the Senate president; an investment expert designated by the treasurer of state; and the superintendent of public instruction or his designated investment expert.
  • The SERS board represents public school employees and consists of 9 members: 4 elected employee members, 2 elected retiree members, and 3 appointed investment expert members; 1 investment expert is appointed by the governor, a second by the treasurer of state, and the third jointly by the speaker of the House and president of the Senate.
  • The OP&F board represents police and firefighters and consists of 9 members: 6 employee members elected by their respective member groups (2 representatives of police departments, 2 representatives of fire departments, 1 retired firefighter, 1 retired police officer), and 3 statutory members with professional investment experience, 1 appointed by the Governor, 1 appointed by the State Treasurer, 1 appointed jointly by the Senate President and the Speaker of the House).

The first table utilizes the state’s publicly disclosed proxy voting records for public securities that it directly owns through pension fund portfolios. The second table uses the aggregated proxy voting records of the state’s asset managers, who manage the pensions’ stock market portfolio either through mutual funds or ETFs, and are therefore exercising proxy voting privileges as well. Both of these tables are necessary to reflect an accurate and comprehensive picture of the state’s proxy voting records.

By Asset Manager

AQR Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

82%

Adams Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

0%

BlackRock Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

7%

Dimensional Investment Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

5%

DoubleLine Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

52%

Fisher Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

67%

Franklin Templeton Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

51%

Frontier Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

19%

Goldman Sachs Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

6%

Harding Loevner Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

12%

Invesco Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

34%

Lazard Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

49%

Loomis Sayles

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

25%

Neuberger Berman Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

29%

PGIM Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

42%

PIMCO Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

85%

PineBridge Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

37%

Prudential Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

38%

Redwood Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

2%

State Street Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

18%

T Rowe Price Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

3%

TCW Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

76%

UBS Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

48%

Blackstone Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

84%

Golub Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

89%

Vontobel Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

0%

Baillie Gifford Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

29%

Mondrian Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

47%

Fuller Thaler Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

30%

LSV Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

37%

Causeway Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

57%

Ninety One Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

13%

Ariel Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

21%

Coho Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

51%

Wasatch Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

19%

Blue Chip Investor Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

0%

Brookfield Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

48%

Kayne Anderson Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

29%

Heartland Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

0%

Westwood Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

0%

Asset Manager Voting

Pro-ESG

25.6%

Anti-ESG

1.7%

Anti-Fossil Fuels

25%

Anti-Pollution/Waste

30%

Animal Rights

13%

DEI

25%

Weapons/Defense

18%

Human Rights

32%

Income Equality

30%

Political Speech/Lobbying Spending

29%

Health Care

16%

Race/Gender targets on Boards

34%

Non-Pecuniary

21%

ESG-Focused Governance

19%

Abortion

19%

Pro-Fossil Fuel

2%

Equality not DEI

2%

Controversial Cause Support

2%

Geopolitical Rivals/China

2%

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