Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Chinese stocks are on track for the best week since 2008 on stimulus expectations. The world's second-largest economy faces strong deflationary pressures due to a sharp property market downturn and frail consumer confidence , which have exposed its over-reliance on exports in an increasingly tense global trade environment. "We

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

All the utilities and railroads at the beginning of the stock market were thought stable enough. I mean now and, and just think about the big impact of the five or six largest tech companies as a percent of the growth in stock markets. 00:14:44 [Speaker Changed] Huh. Really 00:14:45 [Speaker Changed] Interesting.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Carly Wanna and Carmen Reinicke of Bloomberg report hedge funds pump up exposure to Nvidia, cut AMD: Hedge funds continued to lean into the biggest technology companies leading the way in artificial intelligence as the hype propelled the US stock market higher in the first quarter of the year.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the seven big tech firms—Apple (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), and Tesla (TSLA)—playing an outsize role in this year’s stock market rally, it’s no surprise to see them featured heavily in the quarterly filings of large investors.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Having said this, the stock market is incredibly concentrated in a few names and the risks of something bad hitting us are on the rise here, which is why you should all take these 13F filings with a grain of salt here. That fund, Scion Capital, also boosted bets on Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com.

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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

MAY 19, 2023

In other words there is support for stocks, as many potential buyers wait in the wings for current worries to subside, says LPL’s Smith. Extremes in pessimism in the AAII data are, on average, bullish for near-term stock market returns (and extreme investor optimism tends to be bearish for the near-term outlook).

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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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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

00:21:10 And so we started an advisory group of people, you know, hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, you know, buy side investors. 00:53:43 If we’d done that, we would’ve had a much smaller housing bubble and we would’ve had much less damage when that bubble collapsed in, in 2008.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: And so it looked like it was really a pretty reasonable reaction to what had been years of undervalue in the stock market. Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. And so, this is a ripe market for them. The death of equities, you remember that cover.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

My take: I would say the key advantage IMCO and other large Canadian pension funds is certainty of cash flows and access to top private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private debt partners around the world. Leveraging these investment advantages are some of the strategies IMCO uses to enhance returns on behalf of our clients.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 5, 2024

IMCO CEO Bert Clark posted a comment on LinkedIn going over the Canadian model and other thoughts from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium: I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Top1000 Funds’ Fiduciary Investors Symposium Toronto 2024. The solution isn’t having pension funds invest more in the existing opportunity set.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And the only reason I can think for why dividends became the key way of returning cash is I went back to the history of markets. Bond markets preceded stock markets. So when stock markets were first open, to attract investors to buy stocks, they had to be disguised as bonds. DAMODARAN: Yeah.

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