The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

3M 's $6 billion settlement, and how investors should be thinking about the legal issues plaguing the company. Bill, the company currently sports a market cap of over $100 billion. The primary owner is a guy named Pham Nhat Vuong, who owns somewhere in the range of 99% of the company. This company, it's not shortable right now.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They also provide diversified exposure to new trends and disruptive technologies – like generative AI – which appears set to have a significant impact on many companies and jobs and was a serious tailwind for public equity markets in 2023. Public equities provide liquidity and broad geographic and industry segment diversification.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 22, 2024

LifeLabs has drawn multiple bidders, with two health care companies emerging as the leading contenders, three of the sources said. clinical laboratory company with a US$15.2-billion 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.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

The Reading-based company has at least £14 billion of borrowings at a time of sharply rising interest rates and huge investment demands, putting a huge strain on its balance sheet. The company said customers in the W6, W12 and W14 postcodes of west London were reporting low pressure or no water.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The statement, sent exclusively to the National Post , marks the first time Poilievre has explicitly addressed the issue of Alberta’s proposal to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and set up its own pension fund. Neither the size of the fund nor OMERS’s contribution were disclosed.

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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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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

So, it was a shock in 2022 to learn that an American company, owned by a Wall Street firm, sent children as young as 13 to work in slaughterhouses. The disgrace was more disturbing because the company, PSSI, is vital to national food safety and its owner, Blackstone, claims to be a model of management. Shannon Rebolledo: Not at all.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Same companies, just — SALISBURY: Same companies, yes. It was bad companies issuing low quality bonds. And we had some great successes, not backing oil and gas companies or formerly state-owned assets. It was really finding growth equity companies, young entrepreneurs that were building businesses.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 9, 2024

CAAT's successful management and investment strategy allows the Plan to continue to offer its conditional inflation protection enhancements to at least 2027, in accordance with the Plan's Funding Policy. CAAT has granted conditional inflation protection enhancements since its introduction in 2007.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

Amid the losses, Icahn added $4 billion of his own funds into the company. The separate sale of companies held by the firm also resulted in gains of $3.5 Second, markets are at an important inflection point here, so DO NOT GET CARRIED AWAY with what Buffett, Soros and company bought and sold last quarter. You're toast!

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

First, these companies, they were sort of self-interested advice. I was having lunch with Jeremy in the summer of 2007, just after the Bear Stearns hedge fund started blowing up. So if you are an Internet investor in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s, most of those companies didn’t do well. We were sort of doing our job.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Are most people better off in an index fund than playing with an active manager, be it mutual fund or high fee hedge funds? SEIDES: John Yeah, I said back then, the bet started in 2007 and I say today, being in the market and investing in hedge funds is completely apples and oranges. This is the summer of 2007.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

What most people don’t realize is that that deal had been hanging around as a potential transaction for a long time, and a lot of firms had looked at it, and it had conversations with the company. companies, and had lots of very talented folks that we work with. A lot of these companies were becoming very large.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

Start with valuation, what is a company worth and why, move towards what are the things that drive valuations, and then expand out to what happens to valuations over the lifecycle of a company, and why those life cycles are getting increasingly shorter over the past few decades. What can I say about his breadth and depth of expertise?

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So we, we do business with most of the sovereign wealth funds, most of the big US national insurers, global insurers, the largest pension funds. So we we’re partners with the state of Texas, the actual state of Texas, not one of the pension funds, but the state itself. So it’s very long dated capital.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Nicolas Van Praet of the Globe and Mail reports pension giant Caisse strikes deal to acquire Innergex Renewable Energy: Canadian pension fund giant Caisse de dpt et placement du Qubec has struck a deal to buy Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. based company at about $2.8-billion. The Caisse will pay $13.75

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And there was one conversation very early in my career, this was actually 2007, where I was interviewing with an asset manager and I pre-meeting, asked them what they thought of the market. Not especially, well look at the utilities, look at big oil companies. And he gave me the most bearish prognostication I had ever heard.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

We looked at everything from retail to nursing homes to hospitals to insurance companies to manufacturers. There’s a whole lot, hundreds of other companies. That was sort of unfathomable at the time, that someone could buy a giant, publicly traded company strictly with low-cost debt. That’s a shocking number.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

00:07:47 [Speaker Changed] So, so after, you know, more than 20 years at Goldman, you joined the New York Fed in 2007, overseeing domestic and foreign exchange trading operations, 2007, that, that’s some timing. Well, I had about I seven months of calm and then chaos started in August of 2007.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This phase will receive federal funding of $3.9-billion million in funding announced in the 2024 budget. He pointed to his companys experience working on high-speed rail in the UK. and Systra SA and transportation companies Groupe Keolis SAS, Air Canada and SNCF Voyageurs. billion over five years. Canada has allocated $3.9

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 22, 2025

Even the biggest pensions that have long investment time horizons and the benefits of scale have only tended to generate modest total portfolio net value add over the long term. A study by CEM Benchmarking found that the average annual net value add of the largest pension funds was 26bps over 20 years.

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