Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Earlier today, CDPQ issued a press release stating it has acquired an 80% stake in a solar plant in Japan: CDPQ, a global investment group, today announced it has acquired an 80% stake in a solar power generation plant in Japan, alongside its portfolio company Shizen Energy Inc. Shizen Energy).

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2024

The exposure to this development JV complements our recent investment in Scape Core Program and will further diversify our APAC portfolio with defensive cashflows that are driven by the favourable demographics in the region and the demand for quality education in Australia.” The company’s Queen Victoria Market project is part of an A$1.7

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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. There are great public and private companies in that portfolio. The objective?

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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. interests or companies, or 38% of its global portfolio, a share that has almost doubled in the last decade. It reported a 4.2%

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

billion, including debt, building its drilling portfolio in the Western state. The transaction will add large, producing assets to the driller’s portfolio, with executives eyeing opportunities to eventually increase oil recovery at the combined company. Elizabeth Elkin of Bloomberg reports California Resources to buy Aera Energy in $2.1

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 2, 2024

Gilmore was chief investment strategist of the Future Fund, Australia’s sovereign wealth fund. There, he oversaw efforts such as portfolio strategy, portfolio overlays, and investment risk. He is is expected to start at CalPERS, the nation's largest public pension fund, in July.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 29, 2024

“We are thrilled to expand our partnership with Generate in backing market leaders like Pine Gate that can help deliver strong, long-term returns for our members and accelerate our contribution to a more sustainable world,” said Jeff Brunton, HESTA’s Head of Portfolio Management.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 21, 2024

Shatabdi Mazumdar of Digital Infra Network reports UPP invests in data centre developer Rowan Digital Infrastructure: Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners and University Pension Plan Ontario has announced that UPP has completed a co-investment in a Quinbrook portfolio company, Rowan Digital Infrastructure.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

Our extensive presence in this asset class and our local resources enable us to support the expansion of our logistics portfolio in the APAC region, said Pallavi Bhargava, Senior Director, Investments and Asset Management, Asia-Pacific, Ivanhoé Cambridge. SL: We don’t have a separate bucket for impact investing.

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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

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

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 24, 2023

“Despite significant declines in global equity and fixed income markets during our fiscal year, our investment portfolio remained resilient, delivering stable returns while outperforming major indexes.” So we kind of had headwinds and tailwinds in the portfolio, which is the point of diversification,” Graham said. CPP said it earned 1.3

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

This quarter continued the inflection in the fundamental recovery we have been highlighting in our core portfolio over the past several quarters. 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. sequentially. Thanks, Alex.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

Nasdaq 100 call option volume has hit its highest since 2014: But hold on. That’s fine, because the dichotomy in fact implies further market gain, says George Smith, portfolio strategist at LPL Research. Amid the losses, Icahn added $4 billion of his own funds into the company. billion US equities portfolio.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For the six-month fiscal year-to-date period, the Fund increased by $6 billion consisting of a net loss of $4 billion, plus $10 billion in net CPP contributions. For the period, the Fund’s net return was negative 0.7%. The approach involves supporting portfolio companies as they reduce emissions to build value over the long term.

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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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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. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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. I think there are definitely commercial banks that are gonna have trouble due to their concentrated commercial office building portfolio.

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