Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Montreal Gazette reports Rogers sells minority stake in Cogeco to CDPQ for $829 million: Rogers Communications announced Monday it has agreed to sell all its shares in Cogeco to the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec for $829 million in an effort to keep its investment-grade rating. Rogers held large stakes in Cogeco Inc.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

CPP Investments will remain an investor with a 24% stake in a newly formed open-ended logistics core fund, which will house KDV I’s stabilized assets. CPP Investments will remain an investor with a 24% stake in a newly formed open-ended logistics core fund, which will house KDV I’s stabilized assets.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 2, 2024

percent of its portfolio in 2013 to 20.1 From the start of his tenure at CDPQ, Longchamps knew that his role would be different from the mantle taken on by his predecessors, each of whom had dedicated themselves to building and growing the pension’s PE programme. percent in 2022. percent to 21.4 percent over the same period.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 22, 2024

The pension fund manager had quietly tried to sell LifeLabs in previous processes and failed to find a buyer, according to two of the sources. In 2013, LifeLabs became the country’s largest medical testing business – based on the number of tests it performs – when it purchased CML Healthcare Inc. Biomedical Laboratories Inc.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

So this secular bear market that we’re in today began in 2013 when we finally broke above the 1,500 level that was capping the index since 2000. MIAN: In 2015, Carl Icahn sold all his Netflix stake because it was too expensive. And I feel like we may have seen the valuations peak for this cycle in 2021 at a 23 times forward PE.

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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 Invested C$534 million in KPN, bringing our ownership stake to 2.9%.

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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. So we kind of had headwinds and tailwinds in the portfolio, which is the point of diversification,” Graham said. per cent return.

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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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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada Pension Plan Investment Board joins startup at $100 million Reforestation Fund: Canada’s largest pension fund has joined a project to produce carbon credits by planting more than 100 native tree species on degraded land in Brazil’s Amazon region.

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