Pension Pulse

JULY 10, 2024

Compared with the Savings & Loans crisis and 2008, we’re still in the first or second innings” when it comes to troubled assets, said Rebel Cole, a finance professor at Florida Atlantic University who also advises Oaktree Capital Management. There’s a tsunami coming and the waters are pulling out from the beach.”

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail stating ‘shadow banks’ aren’t a problem for the financial system – they are the solution: During the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09, society paid a heavy price for having allowed financial institutions to become “too big to fail.”

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Advocacy groups have accused the private fund industry of unfair, conflicted and opaque practices that hurt everyday Americans who invest in such funds through their pensions. It's not as if some state pension fund benefits from opacity," SEC Chair Gary Gensler told reporters after the panel's vote.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Chinese stocks are on track for the best week since 2008 on stimulus expectations. The politburo also pledged to stabilise the troubled real estate market, saying the government should expand a white list of housing projects that can receive further financing and revitalise idle land.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 31, 2024

CDPQ’s renewed trust in Fiera Capital, a pillar of Quebec finance, underscores our role as an investment leader,” added Maxime Ménard, president and chief executive officer of Fiera Capital Canada and Global Private Wealth. CDPQ’s renewed trust in Fiera Capital, a pillar of Québec finance, underscores our role as an investment leader.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mr. Hill will join OMERS in September, the public pension fund announced Wednesday, and report to Ralph Berg, who took over as the chief investment officer in April. The fact that other large Canadian pension funds keep poaching talent away from CPP Investments tells you how much talent there is there. billion ($3.72

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The modest changes at most of the biggest pension funds are a result of compensation philosophies that emphasize long-term performance of the funds, which is typically measured over five-year horizons. Some pension fund CEOs faced small cuts to their paycheques last year. million in 2022. million from $5.6-million

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Pension Pulse

MAY 11, 2023

Paulina Pielichata of Pensions & Investments reports CDPQ works to pump $11.2 billion into European private markets: Canadian pension fund Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec has recently moved into its new London headquarters as it is working to deploy C$15 billion ($11.2 billion) in private markets across Europe.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2023

Private credit has ballooned since the 2008 financial crisis prompted regulatory reform that pushed banks away from speculative lending and new lenders stepped in to fill the void, including many backed by private equity titans such as Blackstone, Apollo and KKR. and they ignore me or can't/ won't answer me.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. So how does that relate to finance? And so they were both in finance and I decided that must be the absolute last thing I ever wanted it to do. So you end up going from the fund of funds to pension funds.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $41,999 !* of our outstanding debt at the end of the quarter was variable rate in nature, illustrating the financing flexibility we have heading into the end of the year. Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $407,440 !*

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2008, Andrew worked for Fortress Investment Group investing in credit opportunities. He started his career with KPMG on the Financial Institutions industry team, followed by eight years in the Corporate Finance group advising mid-market companies on M&A and financings. Committed INR 18.5

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Pension Pulse

JULY 26, 2023

As intermediaries making decisions on which entities obtain finance and which do not, investors play a unique role in shaping the economy. 1) Such awareness is growing in finance and more institutions are stating an intent to conduct business responsibly. This is particularly true of the investment sector.

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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. To his point, real yields are surging toward 2.5%, the highest since 2008.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 18, 2023

(“BREIT”), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPP Investments”) through its subsidiary CPPIB Credit Investments III Inc., The FDIC is maintaining an 80% ownership stake in the venture and provided financing equal to 50% of the venture’s value. billion in the venture which holds a $16.8 BREIT), a U.S.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 3, 2023

In Monticelli, south of Milan, a warehouse constructed in 2008 with a leasable area of 58,000 sq.m It is supported by a highly motivated and aligned team of skilled professionals focused on acquisitions, asset management and finance. In Pozzaglio, between Milan and Bologna near Cremona, a 29,000 sq.m 307,000 sq.ft.) 621,000 sq.ft).

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Top Funds' Activity in Q4 2023 Alright, let's get into it. A hedge fund run by Michael Burry — who famously shorted subprime mortgages during the 2008 financial crisis and became a central figure in Michael Lewis’s 2010 book "The Big Short" — added 35,000 shares of Alphabet and 30,000 shares of Amazon.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Below, a sample of the funds I track closely: 1) Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMco) 2) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan 3) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 4) Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec 5) OMERS Administration Corp. 24) Norges Bank 25) Nordea Investment Management 26) Korea Investment Corp.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Were you always thinking about going into finance? What, what was it that made you say, Hey, this finance thing looks like it’s fun and interesting? But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business. You get a Stanford MBA. What was the original career plan?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

It started on January 1 of 2008. RITHOLTZ: Great timing for hedge funds, right? SEIDES: And if you had looked historically at hedge fund returns versus the market, there was only a difference of one or two or three percent a year. SEIDES: In Warren’s 2008 annual letter, I think it was 2008, he made a statement.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 2, 2024

This is not a 2008 style crisis where what we saw then was the collapse of the housing market and all these loans that went bad caused just tremendous ripple effects across the economy and financial markets. They're mark to market their prices every single day. Because like we said, the existing home market is frozen.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

I didn’t really know much about the world of finance. So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? Quote, “The world of finance isn’t as complicated as newcomers expect. In order to compete and win in so many things today in finance, you have to be super specialized.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

In fact, virtually all of our drawdown funds we've launched in our history, have been profitable for our investors. Our performance has helped secure retirees' pensions, fund students educations, pay healthcare benefits, and protect and grow the savings of individual investors. We also have a decent pipeline behind that.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

KENCEL: “Barbarians at the Gate” and the financing. And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. Yes, right.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

So, is it, is it safe to say finance was always in the career plans? 00:02:24 [Speaker Changed] Finance and business was always in the career plans. Just the learning what it takes to actually raise money, what it, what it, what it means to actually build a really strong infrastructure of finance, operations, legal team.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

A similar process was used when the energy supplier Bulb collapsed in 2021 and would amount to a temporary renationalisation that would be the biggest since Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group were rescued at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008. What happened to Bentley?

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Claude Lavoie was director-general of economic studies and policy analysis at the Department of Finance from 2008 to 2023. The governance at all of Canada's Maple Eight pension funds is a hundred times better than it was back in the great financial crisis (GFC) and that includes CDPQ.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I led the Union Square Ventures investment in Etsy, I became a venture partner for that, and then became a GP in the 2008 fund. RITHOLTZ: So it just seems like the healthiest way to think about what is unavoidable, yet so many people within the world of finance, kind of dance around it, try not to deal with it. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

MIAN: So when people compare the current sort of bear cycle to 2001 and 2008, the reason I think that’s flawed is because that was in a secular bear market. When you think about the regional banking crisis, you think about 2008. In a secular bear market, the average decline is 43%, and the recovery to the high is 48 months.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

KOENIGSBERGER: So I did my study on that, and I got fortunate enough to meet a gentleman who had been the Finance Minister of Peru. And again, I’m Political Science and History major prior to graduate school, so that I actually get experienced in finance. Go back right after 2008, every bank made markets. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. Was the plan when you were going to school in Paris always to go into finance, or were you originally leaning in another direction? And there was no hint at the time that I would be heading into finance. I think it was a great training.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Executive announcements Manroop Jhooty was appointed Senior Managing Director & Head of Total Fund Management. Completed a multi-year forward flow agreement with Exeter Finance LLC, a U.S. indirect auto finance company, to acquire up to US$200 million per year in residual certificates of auto loan receivables securitizations.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2023

New York Times ) • Alternatives Have Been ‘Kryptonite’ to Alpha — At Least for Public Pensions : Richard Ennis finds public pension funds in the U.S. percent annually since the global financial crisis in 2008. I’m just someone who is very interested in finance, who happens to write. And I’m not a journalist.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You graduate Emory University with a degree in finance. RIEDER: — there was — and then, you know, punctuating with obviously 2008. No, I’m — RITHOLTZ: You beat me by an hour, RIEDER: You know, I think, I would say to young people who come into the business, you know, why are you coming into finance?

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Essentially, buying Brookfield Renewable is a way to invest alongside Brookfield Asset Management, a large Canadian finance company that has an over 100-year history of investing in global infrastructure assets. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $48,899 !* Which brings up another unique twist.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And then meld in a little psychology and behavioral finance, and you have what is truly a masterclass by one of the great professors in the world of finance. ASWATH DAMODARAN, KERSCHNER FAMILY CHAIR IN FINANCE EDUCATION, NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: I’m glad to be back. RITHOLTZ: That’ll help finance the purchase.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2025

It's buying Colonial from a consortium of owners that includes oil giant Shell , private equity firm KKR , Koch Industries, and Canadian pension fund CDPQ. The infrastructure giant is financing its investment via its recently announced capital recycling initiatives.

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