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

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 infrastructure business Mr. Hill is taking over has broadly performed well for OMERS, returning 12.5 per cent on its investments in 2022 and an average of 10.2

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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. 10-year net return of 9.2%

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2024

He joined BlackRock in 2011 from Nomura Holdings Inc. Finally, as capital has become more scarce in a higher interest rate environment, companies are exploring partnership opportunities for their embedded infrastructure assets to improve their returns on invested capital or to raise capital to reinvest in their core businesses.

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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. I need to produce returns because I sure as hell ain't making friends and a living writing this pension blog (some people are nice, others have egos the size of Manhattan!).

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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. 00:07:47 [Speaker Changed] It it could, it could also depend on the bogey or the target return for either the, if the person managing those two portfolios are different, they may have different objectives. Absolutely.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

billion in 2011. CDPQ manages funds for public pension and insurance plans. return on depositors’ funds, slightly below the benchmark portfolio’s 4.6%, for the first half of the year, an insurance news web site, insurancebusinessmag.com, reported last month. Virginia’s AES Corp. acquired DPL Inc. It reported a 4.2%

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Mr. Money Mustache

AUGUST 22, 2020

Since the Dawn of Mustachianism in 2011, the same question has come up over and over again: “MMM, I see your point that index fund investing is the best option. Each one of these steps has provided a very high economic return, percentage-wise, but that still leaves a lot of money to account for, which brings us back to stock investing.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 3, 2023

We are now in five of our six target markets, giving us diversified exposure to outsized returns in the European logistics market. well-maintained warehouse originally constructed in 2011. We are now in five of our six target markets, giving us diversified exposure to outsized returns in the European logistics market.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

“While the concerns that are feeding into the individual investors’ ‘wall of worry’ [lingering inflation, higher interest rates and recession fears] are valid, the negative sentiment they have built up is, from a contrarian perspective, a potential catalyst for positive forward returns,” says Smith. So what's the problem?

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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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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what? And the question was if you can find other areas of investment that can generate the types of returns you need for your liability stream, diversification becomes the free lunch. SEIDES: And hedge funds were the same way.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As the death toll rises on both sides, I hope there will be a peaceful resolution to this latest conflict and pray for the safe return of those kidnapped Israelis, including children, women and elderly. Anyway, let me get on to covering this week in pensions. Since Canada's share of global GDP in 2022 was between 1.0%

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So the theory was that’s great that you’re providing a loan, but if you can co-invest with them and get the upside of partnering with some of the most successful private equity funds in the United States, you know, a great way to enhance your returns. KENCEL: I launched in ’06 and we sold to Carlyle in 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. Eight of those companies have been sold, and Mr. Stavros said they earned higher returns than the average across KKR’s portfolio over a similar time frame.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Fund, which includes the combination of the base CPP and additional CPP accounts, achieved a 10-year annualized net return of 9.6%. For the quarter, the Fund’s net return was 0.1%. For the period, the Fund’s net return was negative 0.7%. dollar relative to the Canadian dollar.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

And investment firm Bernstein thinks that's just the tip of the iceberg, with big-name pension funds and sovereign wealth funds potentially joining the mix later this year. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. billion to $38.7 The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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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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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

7 as part of the government’s sweeping leadership changes, are returning to the board: Former private-equity executive Jason Montemurro, real estate investor Bob Dhillon and former Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan CEO Jim Keohane. AIMCo is Canada’s sixth-largest pension fund manager, investing money on behalf of 17 clients.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2025

In fact, in the decade from 2011 to 2021, it was the best-performing asset in the world, and it wasn't even close. This simply means that large institutional investors -- including investment firms, Wall Street banks, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds -- are now investing in it. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

How sustainable are Bitcoin's triple-digit returns? Over the past two years, Bitcoin has posted triple-digit returns. Simply put, as Bitcoin goes increasingly mainstream, it will become harder to deliver triple-digit returns. Learn more *Stock Advisor returns as of January 27, 2025 Dominic Basulto has positions in Bitcoin.

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