Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jennifer L of Carbon Credits reports Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan buys majority stake in KKR’s Australian carbon project developer: A Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) has agreed to acquire KKR’s stake in a leading Australian carbon markets platform GreenCollar. billion as at June 30, 2023.

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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

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

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

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

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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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

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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

each, are trading for the same price they did in late 2011. per-cent total return. Ziply is currently owned by a group of private equity funds led by Searchlight Capital, and to fund its purchase, Montreal-based BCE will use $4.2-billion telecom-focused private equity fund WaveDivision Capital, LLC.

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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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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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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of July 17, 2023 Also note that nothing on this call constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase an interest in any Blackstone fund. In fact, virtually all of our drawdown funds we've launched in our history, have been profitable for our investors.

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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

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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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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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 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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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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