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 11, 2023

Willis Towers Watson put out a press release stating the world’s top pension funds see the largest assets fall in 20 years: North America now accounts for nearly half of assets in world’s 300 largest pension funds ARLINGTON, Va., increase in the assets of the largest 300 pension funds in the previous year.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

It’s late April, and Emond is appearing at a hearing at Quebec’s National Assembly, where parliamentarians are zeroing in on a perceived dilution of the share of assets the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has invested at home, from 26.1% CPP Investments, meanwhile—Canada’s largest pension investor, with the Caisse at No.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 18, 2023

CPP Investments invests in both public and private credit and credit-like products globally, leveraging its ability to provide scale, certainty of assets and a long investment horizon. Notice Blackstone chose CPP Investments as its partner because of its size and sophistication.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: Or it could be some unique characteristic, pension funds pay no taxes. So when he bought Goldman Sachs in November of 2008 and Bank of America in November 2008, I thought about a traditional portfolio manager doing the same thing and trying to explain to their clients what they just did. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 15, 2024

gain for its latest fiscal year, with returns driven largely by public equity investments and private debt. annual target, pushed total assets at the biggest US public pension fund to $502.9 Calpers said that public equity investments led the way among asset classes with an estimated 17.5% The returns, which outpaced a 6.8%

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