Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In recent weeks, the yield on US 10 Year Treasuries has fluctuated around 4% to 5%, higher than it has been at any time since 2007. IMCO still have a large exposure to public equities and stocks, which hurt it last year as the Fund lost 8.1%. The most recent U.S. inflation figures suggest that annual inflation has slowed from 9.1%

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

At C$146 billion, equivalent to a quarter of the entire C$575 billion pension fund for some 21 million Canadians and forecast to grow bigger every year, Kim leads a program that is also heading into unchartered territory. Most were on the fund's private equity team and were informed early last month, according to two of the people.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 18, 2023

Business Wire reports that Norway's sovereign fund tops global transparency ranking: TORONTO — Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, Government Pension Fund Global, has topped the list of the most transparent funds according to the Global Pension Transparency Benchmark’s 2023 findings.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 22, 2024

The pension fund manager had quietly tried to sell LifeLabs in previous processes and failed to find a buyer, according to two of the sources. OMERS began building its diagnostics business in 2007 when its infrastructure arm acquired MDS Diagnostic Services for $1.33-billion billion in 2007 from Toronto-based firm MDS Inc.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2023

In Treasuries, yield on the 10-year pulled back from Thursday’s levels that were approaching the highest since 2007. streak that long has only been seen in recessions that started in 1973 and 2007 pic.twitter.com/ThjCW8yQy5 — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) August 18, 2023 Where's the recession? UK and German bonds advanced.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

They said, hey, if you're involved, chill the auction and no one wants to bid, and so you can't even show up. Their structures are built by their customers who are the limited partners by and large mostly its pension funds. It's not actually created by the private equity firms, it's created upstream by the pension funds.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I remember once, one of my colleagues says that a friend, one of the French Lazard Frerers partners was asked by a sort of junior, “How much should we tell our client to bid?” I was having lunch with Jeremy in the summer of 2007, just after the Bear Stearns hedge fund started blowing up.

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