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California CLASS Prime

Prime-style local government investment pool 

California CLASS Enhanced Cash

Enhanced cash local government investment pool 

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A comprehensive introduction to the different California CLASS portfolios 

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California Special Districts Association 

Cal Cities

League of California Cities 

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Dedicated to Cities of All Sizes

Assisting Cities Like Yours

Sponsored by the League of California Cities

California CLASS is a Joint Powers Authority investment pool that was created in accordance with the Joint Powers Act. A statutorily-permitted investment, California CLASS provides cities the opportunity to invest their funds in a professionally managed investment pool.

Cities across the State of California rely on the valuable services and the technical expertise the League of California Cities (Cal Cities) provides. Cal Cities and California CLASS have partnered to assist California’s cities in accessing investment services designed for their unique needs. 

Featured Designed With You in Mind

You’re busy managing your city, and as a public finance official, you are responsible for budgeting, investing idle cash, annual reports, auditing, and the list goes on… At California CLASS, we know that you’re working on a variety of projects that take time, effort, and resources; this is why we’ve designed an investment program with the following features: 

California CLASS understands that the fundamental and primary investment objective of any public official responsible for managing public funds is to preserve principal. Similarly, the fundamental and primary investment objective of the California CLASS Prime Portfolio is the safety of your city’s principal.

When it comes to managing investments, there is safety in diversity. California CLASS offers cities the opportunity to diversify their liquidity at the overall portfolio level by investing in a pooled investment that is comprised of hundreds of individual securities as permitted by California Government Code and the California CLASS Investment Policies. 

Seamlessly make contributions and redemptions to and from your investment account and subaccounts via ACH and wire. There are no account minimums, you can create unlimited subaccounts for fund segregation purposes, and California CLASS does not charge wire fees.

On-demand account access allows you to export your monthly statements and see balances, view historical transactions, and download transaction confirmations for your auditors and related bookkeeping responsibilities from a straightforward and intuitive Participant Portal.

Securely manage who has access to your investment accounts and maintain up-to-date bank information on file. 

California CLASS enables you to put checks and balances in place. By using dual authorization and multi-factor authentication when transacting in the Participant Portal, your city can enhance its own internal security procedures and protocols.

How Much Could You Have Earned?

Check out our investment calculator to see how much your city could have earned if your entity had invested its cash since California CLASS launched.

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Governed by a Board of
Your Peers

The Board of Trustees is comprised of public finance officials like you. 

Christina Turner

California CLASS Chairperson

City of Morgan Hill

George Harris

City of Lancaster

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CITY RESOURCES

Just learning about California CLASS? Download the below resources and share this information with your colleagues. 

California CLASS Investment Options

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Features and Benefits

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Transaction Portal Overview

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Common FAQs From California Cities

California CLASS is designed to assist your city in managing your cash easily and efficiently, saving you time and enabling you to focus on your city’s other important initiatives. Manage your investments in an easy-to-use transaction portal by utilizing these features:

  • Schedule transactions in advance
  • Create on-demand statements for each account your city needs 
  • Self-create subaccounts when the need arises i.e. payroll, tax time, bond proceeds, special projects, etc. 

When you call California CLASS, you are connected to our dedicated Client Service team. Our Client Service professionals can answer any questions and fulfill any requests related to the administration of your city’s California CLASS account.

Additionally, California CLASS is serviced by several investment advisers who are available to present to your officials and meet with stakeholders about participating in the Joint Powers Authority investment pool.

Investing in California CLASS can help to diversify your city’s cash not only because it’s an additional holding but also because California CLASS is comprised of hundreds of different California Government Code-permitted investments.

The portfolio’s investments are professionally managed, vetted, and monitored by an internal credit research and portfolio management team. In addition, S&P Global Ratings monitors the California CLASS Prime portfolio on a weekly basis. The consolidated depth and breadth of the California CLASS portfolio can be difficult for cities to create and manage on their own because of the time and costs involved in doing so.

California CLASS Prime and Enhanced Cash are managed to a $1.00 stable Net Asset Value (NAV) and a $10.00 transactional share price, respectively. LAIF is managed differently in that it does not strive to maintain a stable NAV nor attempt to approximate a share price. Other differences include:

  • Both California CLASS portfolios are rated by a nationally recognized statistical ratings organization (S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings)
  • Portfolio securities are marked-to-market daily 
  • Dividends accrue daily and pay monthly
  • Portfolio characteristics are posted daily to the website

For these reasons, California CLASS could make sense for your city as a complement to LAIF or any of its other cash holdings.

What's Next?

Enhance your ability to manage your assets more efficiently and effectively while prioritizing safety and liquidity. Our team of investment professionals are here to assist you every step of the way.

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Many factors affect performance including changes in market conditions and interest rates and in response to other economic, political, or financial developments. Investment involves risk including the possible loss of principal. No assurance can be given that the performance objectives of a given strategy will be achieved. Any financial and/or investment decision should be made only after considerable research, consideration, and involvement with an experienced professional engaged for the specific purpose. The information presented should not be used in making any investment decisions. This material is not a recommendation to buy, sell, implement, or change any securities or investment strategy, function, or process. Please review the California CLASS Information Statement(s) before investing. California CLASS is not a bank. An investment in California CLASS is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Although the California CLASS prime-style fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, it cannot guarantee it will do so. Please review the California CLASS Information Statement(s) located in the Document Center before investing. For risks associated with investing in both a prime-style and enhanced cash-style local government investment pool, please click here. Past performance is not an indication of future performance. Any financial and/or investment decision may incur losses.

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