# Arkansas State Highway Employees Retirement System The Arkansas State Highway Employees Retirement System (ASHERS) is the public pension system serving Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department employees. ASHERS is the cross-agency control case for the documented pattern of DCI outreach to Arkansas state pension systems: the same Berman-Young pitch deck and the same DCI representatives that reached ATRS and APERS through the Auditor's-office channel also reached ASHERS through the Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) channel, but ASHERS did not adopt the investment. The ASHERS instance is documented at [[ashers-declined-pitch-control-case]]. The 5 documents produced in [[ashers-foia-r1-3-27-26]] establish: (a) the same DCI pitch reached ASHERS; (b) the channel was DFA, not the Auditor's office; (c) ASHERS responded with passive non-engagement and the matter did not progress to a formal authorization; (d) ASHERS's $1.967M Israeli-related holdings as of the R1 production consist of three Israeli NASDAQ-listed tech equities (CYBR, NICE, CHKP), not Israel Bonds. The control-case framing matters because it isolates the Auditor's-office DCI promotional channel (per [[auditor-as-dci-channel]]) as the operative variable distinguishing ATRS and APERS adoption from ASHERS decline. The same documentary record reaches multiple pension systems; the differential outcomes correlate with the differential routing channel. ## Cross-References [[ashers-declined-pitch-control-case]] [[auditor-as-dci-channel]] concept pages [[ashers-foia-r1-3-27-26]] source page