NEW YORK (AP) — The $46.6 billion pension fund for New York City schoolteachers has sold its stock in companies that make guns and ammunition, city officials announced Friday.
City Comptroller John Liu said the Dec. 14 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., prompted the fund's board of trustees to review the system's investments in the gun industry.
He said the board concluded that divestment would be consistent with the fund's fiduciary standards and overall investment process.
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