Weapons Investments by Various Countries and States

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CANADA
As of March 31 2022, the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) has these investments in the top 25 global weapons dealers:

Lockheed Martin – market value $76 million CAD
Boeing – market value $70 million CAD
Northrop Grumman – market value $38 million CAD
Airbus – market value $441 million CAD
L3 Harris – market value $27 million CAD
Honeywell – market value $106 million CAD
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries – market value $36 million CAD
General Electric – market value $70 million CAD
Thales – market value $6 million CAD

Learn more about the Canadian Pension Plan’s investments by reading this informative article, “The Canadian Pension Plan is Funding the End of the World And What We Can Do About It”, by WBW Canada Organizer Rachel Small.

JAPAN
The single largest pension fund on earth is the Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan.[2]
Its investments include:

CALIFORNIA
The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) is the second largest pension fund in the U.S. and the seventh largest in the world, with total holdings at $307 billion. Using the latest data available (as of June 2018), the following chart documents the billions of dollars that CalPERS invests in weapons manufacturers around the world. (Sources: SIPRI rankings, CalPERS holdings.)[5][6]

In addition, the California State Teachers Retirement System (CALSTRS) as of June 30, 2016 is invested in the following. The first number is that of shares, the second the market value in thousands of dollars:

Domestic Equities:
Lockheed Martin Corp 738,165 183,190
Boeing Co/The 1,635,727 212,432
Raytheon Company 1,632,503 221,939
Northrop Grumman Corp 865,662 192,419
General Dynamics Corp 827,634 115,240
United Technologies Corp 2,061,864 211,444
L 3 Communications Holdings 183,143 26,865
Huntington Ingalls Industrie 146,966 24,695
Honeywell International Inc 2,201,040 256,025
Textron Inc 644,048 23,546

International Equities:
BAE Systems Plc 4,286,549 30,027
Airbus Group Se 1,149,559 66,064
Thales Sa 287,942 23,995
Rolls Royce Holdings Plc 3,158,670 30,043
Safran Sa 575,968 38,981[7]

DELAWARE
The Delaware Public Employees Retirement System is invested in United Technologies Corporation in the amount of $29,927,361 — which is 0.32% of its holdings, and 269,786 shares of the company. This is one of the top 10 investments of this fund which may be invested in other weapons companies as well that are not in its top 10 investments.

ILLINOIS
The Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago is invested in these weapons dealers:
Lockheed Martin $8,127,707 — 0.7% — 37,429 shares — Unrealised Gain/Loss $5,358,314
Honeywell International $7,153,787 — 0.7% — 69,072 shares — Unrealised Gain/Loss $3,407,048
These are two of the top 10 investments of this fund which may be invested in other weapons companies as well that are not in its top 10 investments.

MICHIGAN
The Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan is invested in these weapons dealers:
United Technologies Corporation $18,001,693 — 0.2%
Honeywell International, Inc. $15,566,882 — 0.18%
These are two of the top 10 investments of this fund which may be invested in other weapons companies as well that are not in its top 10 investments.

NEW YORK
The New York State Teachers Retirement System (the 22nd biggest pension fund on earth[8]) is invested (see these two PDFs for details: One. Two.) in Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, United Technologies, Honeywell, Huntington Ingalls Industries, and Textron. What lesson is this teaching New York’s students?

In addition, the New York City Employees Retirement System is invested in United Technologies to the tune of $71,899,692 — 0.4% — 703,383 shares. This is one of the top 10 investments of this fund which may be invested in other weapons companies as well that are not in its top 10 investments.

Further, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, which comprises the New York State and Local Employees’ Retirement System (ERS) and the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System (PFRS) and which is managed by the Division of Pension Investment and Cash Management in the Office of the State Comptroller, is invested in the following war profiteers:
Boeing 901,785 shares 139,921 value 9/30/16
General Dynamics 1,632,825 shares
Raytheon 906,000 shares
General Dynamics 901,785 shares
Lockheed Martin 765,900 shares
United Technologies 2,331,020 shares
Honeywell 2,908,100 shares[9]

More information on the investments of the New York State Common Retirement Fund is available. As of March 31, 2016, they are as follows. The first number is that of shares, the second the cost of shares, the third the value as of March 31, 2016:
Lockheed Martin Corp. 742,600 56,362,293 164,485,900
Boeing Company/The 1,806,182 83,791,299 229,276,743
BAE Systems plc 3,157,759 19,892,919 23,101,713
Raytheon Company 867,400 48,594,251 106,369,262
Northrop Grumman Corp. 591,303 42,705,500 117,018,864
General Dynamics Corp. 887,380 55,909,841 116,575,111
Airbus Group Nv 449,650 27,737,120 29,898,461
United Technologies Corp. 2,508,971 115,531,837 251,147,997
L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. 198,900 24,205,180 23,569,650
Thales S.A. 178,352 9,241,933 15,649,558
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. 158,416 8,795,662 21,693,487
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc 228,359 2,951,416 2,238,463
Safran S.A. 215,919 15,120,612 15,127,184
Honeywell International, Inc. 2,117,900 77,284,056 237,310,695
Textron, Inc. 687,696 30,201,721 25,073,396[10]

NORTH DAKOTA
This is the state with a public bank that is invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline. The North Dakota Retirement and Investment Office is invested in these weapons dealers:
Boeing Company $18,613,588 — 134,181 shares
Safran SA $13,578,820 — 200,478 shares
These are two of the top 10 investments of this fund which may be invested in other weapons companies as well that are not in its top 10 investments.

In addition, the North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System is invested in:
Boeing Company $9,430,550
Safran SA $6,840,016
These are two of the top 10 investments of this fund which may be invested in other weapons companies as well that are not in its top 10 investments.

TEXAS
The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (#18 on World’s Largest Pensions as of 2015 according to: pension360.org ) has these investments in 14 of the top 20 weapons dealers (in number of shares):
Lockheed Martin Corp 219,869.000
Boeing Co 408,212.000
BAE Systems 1,275,550.000
Raytheon Company 322,676.000
Northrop Grumman Corp 292,680.000
General Dynamic Corp 66,502.000
Airbus Group 727,144.000
United Technologies Corp 250,528.000
L3 Communications Holdings 311,140.000
Thales 354,221.000
Huntington Ingalls 393,237.000
Rolls Royce Group 3,788,702.000
Rolls Royce Hldgs 51,728,610.000
Rolls Royce Holdings 1,124,535.000
Safran 918,509.000
Honeywell 791,020.000
Textron 22,430.000[11]

WISCONSIN
The Wisconsin Investment Board (#24 on World’s Largest Pensions in 2015, according to: pension360.org) is invested in the following. The first number listed is that of shares and the second number represents the value as of December 31, 2014.
Core Retirement Investment Trust:
Lockheed Martin 225,673 43,457,850
Boeing 604,526 78,576,289
BAE Systems 3,018,388 22,214,309
Raytheon 513,783 55,575,907
Northrop Grumman 276,822 40,800,795
General Dynamics 181,544 24,984,085
Airbus Group 266,525 13,335,730
United Technologies 1,264,998 145,474,770
Finmeccanica 183,391 1,716,491
L-3 Communications Holdings 132,101 16,672,467
Thales 42,182 2,296,650
Huntington Ingalls 29,165 3,279,896
Rolls Royce Hldgs C 173,538,630 270,590
Rolls-Royce Holdings 1,749,286 23,729,896
Safran 740,482 45,921,038
Honeywell International 1,091,644 109,077,068
Textron 165,721 6,978,511

Variable Retirement Income Trust:
Lockheed Martin 58,926 11,347,380
Boeing 155,056 20,154,179
BAE Systems 332,151 2,444,518
Raytheon 96,929 10,484,810
Northrop Grumman 57,067 8,411,105
General Dynamics 57,033 7,848,881
Airbus Group 22,946 1,148,116
United Technologies 255,384 29,369,160
Finmeccanica 15,801 147,893
L-3 Communications Holdings 26,571 3,353,526
Thales 3,629 197,585
Huntington Ingalls 9,164 1,030,583
Rolls Royce Hldgs C 13,078,890 20,393
Rolls-Royce Holdings 136,015 1,845,108
Safran 68,955 4,276,249
Honeywell International 215,674 21,550,146
Textron 52,042 2,191,489 [12]

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