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Are Insurance Companies Safe?

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Corporations Move Pensions into Annuities with Insurance Firms. GM Unloads $26 Billion in White-Collar Pensions; Could Union Workers Be Next?” Forbes; June 1, 2012 [link]. Kimberley-Clark buys annuities to cover pension risks” Business Insurance; Feb. The stock market is a fantastic tool for investors to realize growth.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

The Big Picture

CHANCELLOR: When they’re more than — I think it really took from 2006 to 2012. back in sort of 2012. stock market was very high last year, but aggregate household wealth that the Fed actually gathers — RITHOLTZ: Record highs. pension funds engaged in to the tune of hundreds of billions of pounds.

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CDPQ Sells 20% Stake in Plenary's Asia Pacific Business to ADQ

Pension Pulse

CDPQ executive vice-president and head of infrastructure Emmanuel Jaclot said: “Since we began our partnership with Plenary Group in 2012, the company has experienced significant growth. The Canadian institution has invested more than A$500m in a variety of Plenary projects since 2012.

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A Conversation With John Graham on CPP Investments Fiscal 2023 Results

Pension Pulse

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. That beat the fund’s reference portfolio (an internal benchmark it sets for itself), which had a return of just 0.1

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This Week in Pensions & Investments: 10-11-2023

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billion in 2012: The deal puts the overall value of MLSE at $8 billion — a significant increase from when Bell Canada and Rogers Communications bought a 75 per cent stake in the company from the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan for $1.32 billion in 2012. Read his full comment here. This needs to change. Read full article here.

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

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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Transcript: Jeremy Siegel + Jeremy Schwartz

The Big Picture

I mean, it’s not the 220 years of stock market data. People think real estate is more stable than the stock market. And it appears, at least, in the post-World War II period, they come about every 25 years, the Nifty Fifties, which was a period where institutions and pension funds bought just growth stocks.

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