Pension Pulse

MARCH 14, 2024

ABOUT OPTRUST With net assets of $25 billion, OPTrust invests and manages one of Canada's largest pension funds and administers the OPSEU Pension Plan (including OPTrust Select), a defined benefit plan with over 111,000 members. Additional information about OPTrust's 2023 strategy and results is available in People.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 6, 2024

million in its first year of operation from its founding partners and Mr. Stavros himself, and launched with substantial in-kind help from blue-chip consultants like McKinsey and EY. Then in 2015, KKR—one of the world's biggest private equity firms, came to this small town and purchased C.H.I. It pulled in $21.5 for $ 700 million.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

I think it was 2015. I’m assuming there was some friction between that team and the board, and the board hired Morgan Stanley is an OCIO, not only without ever consulting the team, but they had an investment committee of knowledgeable experts, other endowment chief investment officers. It was a year or two before he passed away.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I am an irreverent and fun marketing consultant for financial advisors. But for the average person, what’s going to be much more effective is to work on voting and then to pressure pension funds and banks with whom you have a direct relationship, because those are the big blocks of capital that can actually push companies.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Part of the refusal may have been partisan; the Ontario Liberals were asking the Stephen Harper Conservatives in Ottawa, who had little interest in supporting an initiative that added to anybody's payroll taxes, and campaigned in 2015 against it. 21 by releasing a government-commissioned report from consultant LifeWorks.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The decision to put a senior government official on the board of the arm’s-length pension fund manager raises questions about AIMCo’s continued independence, and whether the move opens the door to the government to exert greater political influence or to steer the pension fund manager toward government priorities.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 16, 2025

Mark Johnson wrote a comment for the Hub stating Canadas public pension funds may be a global success story, but political storm clouds are gathering: They are the demigods of our corporate world. Bestriding our financial community, the eight largest public pension funds in Canada are known by the adulatory nickname the Maple Eight.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This phase will receive federal funding of $3.9-billion million in funding announced in the 2024 budget. Conservative MP and transport critic Philip Lawrence dismissed the announcement as a $5-billion photo-op, including previously announced funds, that shows the Liberals constantly fail to deliver on promises.

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