I've divested, have you?

Are you a Faculty and Staff at UCSD?
Is your retirement fund financing climate and social injustice?  

Around the world we continue to see a lack of leadership to decarbonize our economy and attempt to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of the current climate crisis. As concerned individuals we can make a difference. We can divest from fossil fuels, and invest in socially responsible funds.

Divestment the world over can act as a mechanism through which to move society away from an unfair, unjust and resource draining economy, to an economy driven by equality, justice and low-carbon initiatives. We therefore have the moral imperative to divest. What's more, it is also financially prudent to divest.

Are you convinced?

We've created guides which walk you through how to change what your retirement fund is invested in.
These guidelines are for moving a UC 457(B) PLAN, UC DCP, or UC 403(B) PLAN, from where they are being placed now to the UC Social Equity Fund.


It'll only take 10 minutes! Divest now, record your divestment, and add "I've divested my UCSD retirement fund, have you?" to your email signature.

By completing this form you agree to have your name and department published on the Green New Deal at UCSD website. We are doing this to raise awareness of the issue prompt others to follow suit and take this important action.


The UC Social Equity Fund excludes stock of companies that engage in the following activities:

  1. produce adult entertainment;
  2. produce alcoholic beverages;
  3. produce tobacco products;
  4. produce (or produce specific and critical parts or services for) nuclear weapon systems, chemical or biological weapons, cluster munitions, and anti-personnel mines; (v) produce other weapons for military use;
  5. produce firearms or ammunition for non-military use;
  6. own proved or probable reserves in coal, oil, or gas, or any company that FTSE determines has a primary business activity in:
    1. the exploration for, drilling, production, refining and supply of oil and gas products,
    2. the supply of equipment and services to oil fields and offshore platforms,
    3. the operations of pipelines carrying oil, gas, or other forms of fuel,
    4. integrated oil and gas companies, providing a combination of services listed in (a)-(c) above, including refining and marketing of oil and gas products, or
    5. the exploration for or mining of coal; (viii) provide gambling services;
  7. generate revenues from nuclear power production.

More information on this fund (and the one that you are using now) can be found by going to fossilfreefunds.org and entering its ticker (VFTNX). It receives a ‘B’ rating from Fossil Free Funds, much better than most, and is the highest rated fund that is accessible through Fidelity BrokerageLink®.