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Warren Buffett Quotes Under the Microscope

The Motley Fool

3M 's $6 billion settlement, and how investors should be thinking about the legal issues plaguing the company. It's such an interesting case to me because these earplugs were manufactured from 2003 until the mid-2015, I believe, and 3M bought the company that made them in 2007. It wasn't even 3M producing a product.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

So what I mean by that is, first, understand the duration of your funding source. Pension funds have quite long-dated capital. So first, understand the duration of that funding source. And then the second is, understand the return requirement of that funding source. Capital rules were changing.

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Is The Canadian Model Really Under Siege?

Pension Pulse

Wiseman and Ambachtsheer were on a panel alongside inaugural Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan CEO Claude and CPP Investments current CEO John Graham, speaking about the origins and much-revered tenets of the Canadian system that are admired by pension funds around the world. And we were an incredibly entrepreneurial organisation.”

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Ontario Government Launches Governance Review of OMERS

Pension Pulse

Over the summer, multiple associations representing OMERS members wrote to the government urging it to review governance at the $133-billion pension fund, which invests on behalf of more than 626,000 Ontario public service workers.

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Will OMERS and BCI Drown Along With Thames Water?

Pension Pulse

The company is still in talks with its shareholders about raising as much as £1 billion in fresh funds following a £500 million injection agreed last year. Its largest shareholder is Canadian pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers), which holds a nearly 32 per cent stake. billion in Canadian funds.

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The Blackstone Bombshell That Just Shook PE Industry

Pension Pulse

No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. In an email to the News, Oxford spokesman Matt Pickles said the university accepted Schwarzman’s donation after “rigorous due diligence procedures” that took “ethical, legal, financial and reputational issues” into consideration.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

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.