Pension Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2024

He joined BlackRock in 2011 from Nomura Holdings Inc. BlackRock’s over $50 billion of infrastructure client AUM is comprised of infrastructure equity, debt and solutions, and has grown both organically and inorganically since inception in 2011. Not just sovereign wealth funds, US, Canadian and European pension funds too.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

MIAN: In 2011 you had the debt ceiling crisis, the credit rating got downgraded, the dollar was at a 50 year low. The zeitgeist of the 2010s was best articulated by Marc Andreessen in 2011 in a “Wall Street Journal” article, “Software is Eating the World.” Because when you think about debt ceiling, you think about 2011.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

each, are trading for the same price they did in late 2011. Although Ziply generates cash flow, it is currently owned by private equity backers – including three Canadian pension funds – and they have put $2-billion of net debt on its balance sheet. telecom-focused private equity fund WaveDivision Capital, LLC.

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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 ($1.86

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

That’s code for bending public infrastructure investments to private investors’ needs for low-risk, high-return financial assets that generate returns for their owners or, in the case of pension funds, pensioners. Well, it didn't turn out that way. In plain English, profits first, ESG second.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 6, 2023

Pereira is a Senior Principal at CPP Investments, which she joined in 2011 and where she currently leads consumer and retail private equity efforts in North America. Prior to joining CPP , Ms. Pereira worked at the Boston Consulting Group from 2006 to 2009.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

I got here and in those days, there was a HOOPP pension fund and HOOPP Investment Management Limited which ran the assets and they both had a CEO. John eventually became CEO and he retired in 2011. And HOOPP in particular had room to perform even better than it had been.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

billion in 2011. utility firm AES Corp said on Tuesday it would sell a 30% indirect equity interest in its Ohio subsidiary to Canada's second-largest pension fund CDPQ for $546 million, which will be used to support infrastructure investments. Virginia’s AES Corp. acquired DPL Inc. AES Ohio said it would invest more than $1.5

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 3, 2023

well-maintained warehouse originally constructed in 2011. Logistics and multi-family remain the two areas real estate groups at large Canadian pension funds are most heavily invested in. The asset is fully let to L’Oreal and serves their national distribution. In Pozzaglio, between Milan and Bologna near Cremona, a 29,000 sq.m

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 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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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 per cent return of its reference portfolio. a leading financial services company.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. Public pension funds that manage hundreds of billion dollars can be manned by professionals that make $80 to $150,000 a year. You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet. SEIDES: Yeah.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Anyway, let me get on to covering this week in pensions. First, Shahir Gindo wrote a special to the Globe and Mail on why Canadian pensions funds should invest more in domestic assets to boost the economy. I want to confront the topical complaint that pension funds allocate something like 4% of our capital to domestic stocks.

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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.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And so five years into that growth of our business, we sold the firm to Carlyle in 2011. KENCEL: I launched in ’06 and we sold to Carlyle in 2011. So we did the deal in 2011, and I kind of gave up my baby, if you will. Arcmont, one of the early adopters in Europe, they actually launched their firm back in 2010, 2011.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 6, 2024

Mr. Stavros started experimenting with KKR’s industrial-sector firms around 2011, and he has rolled out employee equity plans at more than 30 portfolio companies. Once he'd reached the gleaming offices of KKR, he put the program into action, for the first time in 2011. So why is this so important and why cover it on this blog?

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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. Notably, consumer expectations for long-run inflation ticked up to a level not seen since 2011.

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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. That got clawed back very, very quickly in 2011 and 12. And so we have them in periodically to talk to. So there were a lot of headwinds. So you’re absolutely right.

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