This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997. I met Brad and Fred in the Summer of 2004, agreeing to join them later that year--my first job at a fund. I started a company, failed at it, and joined First Round in 2009 to help them open up their NYC office.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2023

Marks said that this contrasted with the investment landscape from 2009 to 2021, when interest rates were low and “everyone was eager to invest”. “If pic.twitter.com/z5sfKt04bC — Francois Trahan (@FrancoisTrahan) May 15, 2023 I know, offices only make up 10-15% of pension funds' commercial real estate portfolios but that is still signifcant.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 2, 2024

Joe Dear (2009-14) was taken by cancer, but judging by the reigns of Ted Eliopoulos (2014-18) Ben Meng (2019-20) and Nicole Musicco (2022-23), it seems the average length of a Calpers CIO stint is getting closer to one year. He is is expected to start at CalPERS, the nation's largest public pension fund, in July.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 16, 2016

If funds put their money to work over 3-4 years, how long before you really know that much about a VC fund. The midway point of this dataset is 2009. The average company of a 2009 fund was funded in 2011, just five years ago, and half the companies in that fund are less than five years old.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Gillian Tan, Swetha Gopinath and Layan Odeh of Bloomberg report OMERS to stop making direct private equity investments in Europe: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System will stop making direct private equity investments in Europe as the pension fund overhauls its operations there, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

A month ago, Eliyahu Kamisher of the Los Angels Times reported that CalPERS pension fund posts 5.8% gain in its latest fiscal year as the stock market rally and private debt buoyed the largest traditional public pension fund in the United States. pension fund, has yet to release its fiscal 2023 results.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2024

The deal would be BlackRock's largest acquisition since its 2009 purchase of Barclays Global Investors. Yesterday I discussed why CalSTRS' CIO Chris Ailman is retiring at the end of June and agreed with him the Fund needs to increase its exposure to inflation sensitive asset classes which includes infrastructure.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 13, 2024

Bob Baldwin wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail stating a proposal to encourage more pension fund investing at home is wrong for Canada: Last month’s budget unveiled a working group led by former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz to collaborate with pension fund leaders to encourage funds to invest more of their assets in Canada.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 6, 2023

Pereira worked at the Boston Consulting Group from 2006 to 2009. Now, it's the end of the world, CPP Investments has huge bench strength that most other large Canadian pension funds can only dream of (the others typically poach the talent away from CPP Investments as PSP did when it hired Deb Orida to be their CEO).

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

Importantly, this market is on the verge of turning south and when it does, it's going to be really ugly: I would reiterate to bulls that since 2009 each time small caps had a death cross (50 dma below 200 dma), the S&P 500 imploded. No exceptions. Tends to be a leading indicator for the economy, recessionary signals continue to build.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have institutional clients, we have retail clients, we have, you know, pension funds, we have endowments. 2009, 10 in that role. So I would say the challenge of having those roles is that our institutional clients are much shorter term. And, you know, Morgan Stanley has all types of different clients.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 20, 2023

Love Liman of Bloomberg News reports Sweden’s property rout drags down result of another pension fund: Sweden’s pension system is increasingly caught up in a property crisis that’s hit commercial landlords, with one of the state-owned pension funds joining peers that have taken losses on its investments in real estate assets.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

Ian Bickis of The Canadian Press reports CPP Investments earned 8 per cent in latest fiscal year, net assets rose to $632 billion: Canada's biggest pension fund earned an eight per cent return last year, but significantly underperformed the 19.9 billion towards Boldyn Networks since 2009 and hold an 86% ownership stake.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A CPPIB spokesperson said the name of the fund is Canadian Fund-of-Funds V and that as an evergreen mandate, it's an additional commitment to a customized mandate with the pension fund. billion in Canadian private equity investments on behalf of CPPIB, a Sept. 14 news release said.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

In private credit, tightening credit conditions resulting from a handful of bank failures and rescues in the United States have opened up opportunities for non-bank players like pension funds, he said. We have committed approximately C$3 billion to BAI since 2009 and hold an 86% ownership stake. per cent return.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 26, 2023

It is a collaboration of two organisations, Climate Analytics and New Climate Institute, and has been providing this independent analysis to policymakers since 2009. (10) Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed aims.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Teachers' invests in portable battery company aiming to replace gas-powered generators: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading a US$95-million funding round for Instagrid GmbH, a German maker of portable battery systems designed to replace gas-powered generators.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: I would say that’s not really part of my belief system of what a hedge fund is trying to deliver. So I think that argument is very valid in those couple of years, 2009, 2010 probably, maybe 2011, which was a tough year for hedge funds. You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet. RITHOLTZ: Right. SEIDES: Yeah.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

This means that Bitcoin's sound monetary policy is virtually impossible to change and provides investors with confidence that it will continue to run just as it has since it was created in 2009. These firms plan to introduce spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds , hoping to provide a product that can be traded on the stock market.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

iShares' AUM was about $300 billion when we announced our acquisition in 2009. pension fund, a European captive asset management are just a few examples as we look to onboard these mandates and more in future quarters and delivering the outcomes of our clients and their constituents and what they need. RIA, a U.K.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

And what we figured out in 2009, really when we started buying homes is that we made the bet that it, I mean, it wasn’t a very exotic bet, but we made the bet that the subprime mortgage market wasn’t coming back at all. And so, so starting in 2009, we, we, there was no flip market. So it’s very long dated capital.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So a very different dynamic than we saw back in 2007, 2008, 2009. pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds, and internationally, investors. Yes, there’s a lot of liquidity in private equity. But there’s also a lot of liquidity in private credit to be able to finance those transactions.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s gimmicks all the way down as investors are apparently willing to pay 1-per-cent fees to trade against Jim Cramer as a bit. ¯_ (ツ)_/¯ ( Financial Times ) • Corporate Pension Funds Lobbied for a Rule Change. Now It’s Coming Back to Haunt Them. Rising rates have radically shifted how corporate plans calculate discount rates.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

If you’re anywhere from an individual to a pension fund, saying how much do I have to save to retire? Some famous periods of reversals in market, the most famous spring of 2009 when we came off the GFC. But the good news is I lost you less than I would have lost over the average decade. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

00:09:48 [Speaker Changed] And, and then in January, 2009, we we’re deep into the financial crisis. We were running the commercial paper funding facility. So that was a big job in the spring of, of 2009. But, you know, it was very touch, touch, touch and go there in the first part of 2009. Again, fantastic timing.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 17, 2024

Heather joined CPP Investments in 2009 and before this appointment she was Managing Director and Head of Investment Portfolio Management in the Office of the Chief Investment Officer. CPP Investments is Canada's pension fund, the most important pension fund in the country and as such it must reflect the diverse nature of our country.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And I’ll just, you know, go back to, like, I remember Argentina 2009 and meeting with the Finance Minister who not only didn’t know, finance, but didn’t know how to do a debt restructuring. And so this poor CFO is doing the conference call in his bathroom and the screensaver is his shower screen, right.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And again, some history, until 2009 or ‘10, Warren Buffett actually spoke out against buybacks. DAMODARAN: Or it could be some unique characteristic, pension funds pay no taxes. I mean, strong words for Buffett. RITHOLTZ: He was not a fan. DAMODARAN: He was a big dividend person. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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