Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Layan Odeh of Bloomberg reports CPPIB plows at least $5 billion into private equity in three months: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board poured at least $5 billion into private equity in the last three months of 2024 as the asset class regained appeal. The partnership with Longfor was first established in 2014.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 12, 2024

Former Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt also wanted to build a Canadian-style pensions model in Britain, but progress had been slow. Reeves has announced a review, overseen by the new pensions minister Emma Reynolds, to look into how to achieve scheme consolidation and put pension funds to use in promoting UK growth.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 10, 2024

Lauren Sforza of The Hill reports major pension fund will vote against Elon Musk pay package: The chief of a major pension fund said Monday he will vote against Elon Musk’s pay package later this week. The fund, called the Government Pension Fund Global, which has a.98% 98% stake in Tesla worth $7.72

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“The federal government believes that continued domestic investments by Canada’s pension funds have the potential to boost Canada’s economy and create good careers for people across the country.” The statement said government would work with pensions to find and encourage more investments in Canada.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 4, 2023

This began in 2007 with the now London-listed HVPE offering daily liquidity to non-US investors, continued in 2014 with the launch of a global annual program offering clients a core diversified solution, and progressed further in 2016 with the creation of one of the first dedicated private client groups.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Today OMERS issued a press release stating it is celebrating 10 years of investment success in Australia: Sydney, Australia - OMERS, one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, is celebrating its 10th anniversary of successful investment operations in Australia. Let me begin with a little detour to the UK before I get to Australia.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

But what’s even more relevant, he says, is that with $88 billion now invested in a province with a GDP of nearly $500 billion, “the Caisse is the pension fund that is the most invested, in the world, in its local economy.” More than ever, Canada’s largest pension funds are being pressed to play the same role in the rest of the country.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 17, 2024

Denitsa Tsekova of Bloomberg reports a $300 billion pension fund leads big-money charge back to bonds: When Christopher Ailman became the chief investment officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System back in 2000, one of every four dollars it oversaw was invested in government, corporate and mortgage debt.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports PSP chief investment officer Eduard van Gelderen to leave pension fund after 6 years: Public Sector Pension Investment Board chief investment officer Eduard van Gelderen is leaving the $265-billion fund after six years in the job. billion) pension fund.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Founded in 2014 and now present in five countries, the company specializes in supporting institutional and corporate clients when planning, managing and executing large-scale digital transformation programs. CDPQ is also the pension fund most present in its local economy globally.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2024

Stephen Gaitanos and Craig Carracher founded Scape Australia in 2014 and are now the largest residential-for-rent owner and operator in Australia, managing more than 36 operational assets (17,200 apartments) with 10 purpose-built student housing and urban living assets under development. What about Canada?

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The modest changes at most of the biggest pension funds are a result of compensation philosophies that emphasize long-term performance of the funds, which is typically measured over five-year horizons. Some pension fund CEOs faced small cuts to their paycheques last year. million in 2022. million from $5.6-million

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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.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 30, 2024

In 2014, the value of the Caisse's Quebec assets was approximately 60 billion Canadian dollars. What that means for you is that your Fund is the most invested pension fund in the world in its local economy,” argued Mr. Emond. It amounted to 68 billion in 2020, then to 88 billion last year. The objective?

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 29, 2024

Since 2014, Generate has invested in and operated sustainable assets across six sectors: power, mobility, waste, green digital, water and agriculture, and industrial decarbonization. About Generate Capital Generate Capital is a leading sustainable investment and operating platform driving the infrastructure transition.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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. As of September 30, 2014, AES has already funded US$156 million of the equity commitment.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

in late 2014, filed for bankruptcy in 2020 amid low oil prices, emerging from the process later that year. The combined company is set to play a leading role in California’s energy transition, which we view as a promising source of long-term risk-adjusted returns for the CPP Fund.” sold their stakes to IKAV in 2022.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 2, 2024

Joe Dear (2009-14) was taken by cancer, but judging by the reigns of Ted Eliopoulos (2014-18) Ben Meng (2019-20) and Nicole Musicco (2022-23), it seems the average length of a Calpers CIO stint is getting closer to one year. He is is expected to start at CalPERS, the nation's largest public pension fund, in July.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

This marked the strongest year-over-year growth in our same capital pool since 2014, demonstrating the turn and fundamentals that we have been highlighting. Improvement in our stabilized same capital operating performance continued in the second quarter with year-over-year cash NOI up 5.6% sequentially. So look, we're bullish on that.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 21, 2024

From 2014 to 2023, private infrastructure and real estate funds with exposure to digital infrastructure raked in $800 billion in commitments , according to the analyst note. The investment approach in pension funds in Canada and Denmark are similar, inspiration in Denmark come from Canada.”

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

just saying, that is the group that is systematically discriminated against the most and none of the pension funds I cover do anything to target hiring them). When are they going to create an EDGEplus certification that incorporates people with disabilities?

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Private Equity Professional

JANUARY 29, 2025

Fund XIIIs limited partners include United States and international endowments, foundations, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, consultants, and family offices.

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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

JULY 27, 2023

PLI said that the sale will see the “vast expertise” of the French operator brought to bear on the Irish operation, while nothing will change in terms of how the lottery itself raises funding, given the lottery itself will remain in Irish State ownership. A deal to sell PLI had been well flagged since the beginning of the year.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Silas Brown and Kat Hidalgo of Bloomberg report Florida pension to offload up to $4 billion of private credit: The Florida State Board of Administration is looking to sell a bundle of private credit stakes worth as much as $4 billion in what would be one of the largest deals of its kind, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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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. The original investments were made between 2012 and 2014. That’s one of the things that keeps us up at night,” Graham said.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And so, you know, I went to David and Bill in 2014, and we had kind of served out our three-year term there. So you know, I’ve formed a relationship back in 2014, ’15 with Jose Minaya, who is now the CEO of Nuveen and actually still sits on our board today. And you know, for me, I also saw the business changing.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

Nasdaq 100 call option volume has hit its highest since 2014: But hold on. 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.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Mr. Connor succeeded Heather Munroe-Blum, CPP Investments’ Chairperson since 2014, whose final term as Chairperson and Director expired in October. 7) Gordon Pape wrote and op-ed for the Globe and Mail stating the Canada Pension Plan changes will raise contributions at a very wrong time. Read his full comment here.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 3, 2025

Oversubscribed at its hard cap, the fund underscores strong investor demand for GP-led secondary market opportunities. Since 2014, ICG Strategic Equity has committed over $19bn to GP-led secondaries. Find out more about ICG’s fundraising efforts at Italy’s largest Private Equity Conference in Milan.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From 2014 to 2017, van Gelderen was CEO of the Dutch financial service provider APG Asset Management, after serving as Chief Investment Officer from 2010-2014. We look forward to leveraging his expertise to further FCLTGlobal’s mission.” Previously, he served as Deputy Chief Investment Officer of ING Investment Management.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

AIMCo), citing a need “to restore confidence” in the provincial pension fund manager. T hose returns are comparable to the rates of return earned by several other large Canadian pension funds. Three other executives have also departed the provincial pension fund, Finance Minister Nate Horner confirmed Thursday afternoon.

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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. And so we have them in periodically to talk to. And so we got a much broader network of information that we could sort of take on board. 00:52:16 [Speaker Changed] Really interesting.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 18, 2025

After creating Borealis Infrastructure in 1999, initial investments were made in modest amounts of $5 million to $30 million per project, but the pension funds appetite for such opportunities grew. OMERS later acquired an additional stake to become the majority owner in 2014.) OMERS, together with TransCanada Corp.,

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