CalSTRS Expands Pension2 Personal Wealth Plan.CalSTRS Pension2 Investment Choices Grow From 14 to 22 WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is expanding its Pension2[R] personal wealth plan investment choices. The fund lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime. has increased from 14 to 22, giving members more options and greater investment flexibility. The changes became effective October 1, 2009. The CalSTRS Pension2 personal wealth plan consists of a 403(b), Roth 403(b) and 457 plan, and serves as a supplemental savings plan for all California school and community college employees. The changes to CalSTRS Pension2 reflect the addition of ten new investment choices, two of which replaced older funds. The new Pension2 investment choices are: * Vanguard Inflation-Protected Securities - Institutional (VIPIX) * Vanguard Mid Cap Index (VIMSX) * American Funds  Please see the discussion on the talk page. * American Funds Capital World Growth & Income (RWIGX) * American Funds EuroPacific Growth (RERGX) * American Funds SMALLCAP Company (RLLGX) * American Funds American Balanced (RLBGX) * DFA DFA - Deterministic Finite-state Automaton. See Finite State Machine. International Small Company (DFISX) * PIMCO PIMCO Pacific Investment Management Company All Asset (PAAIX) * TIAA-CREF TIAA-CREF Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund Social Choice (TRSCX) The new investment choices allow members to further diversify diversify To acquire a variety of assets that do not tend to change in value at the same time. To diversify a securities portfolio is to purchase different types of securities in different companies in unrelated industries. their portfolios while lowering costs. Pension2 offers participants two main options: * Choose one of 15 Easy Choice Portfolios for those who prefer a "hands free" approach to investing. * Choose a Build Your Own Portfolio option based on individual investment preferences, now with a wider range of choices. For detailed information about the changes and the investment funds Noun 1. investment funds - money that is invested with an expectation of profit investment assets - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company available, visit www.Pension2.com or contact the CalSTRS Pension2 toll free number at 888-394-2060, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, Monday through Friday. Note: CalSTRS will be closed the first, second and third Friday of the month until June 30, 2010 under an executive order issued by Gov. Schwarzenegger. The California State Teachers' Retirement System, with a $126.9 billion portfolio, is the second largest public pension fund in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . It administers retirement, disability and survivor benefits for California's 833,000 public school educators and their families from the state's 1,400 school districts, county offices of education and community college districts. |
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