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World’s Top Pension Funds See the Largest Assets Decline in 20 Years

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Willis Towers Watson put out a press release stating the world’s top pension funds see the largest assets fall in 20 years: North America now accounts for nearly half of assets in world’s 300 largest pension funds ARLINGTON, Va., increase in the assets of the largest 300 pension funds in the previous year.

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Ivanhoé Cambridge’s Real Estate Binge Heading Towards a Reckoning?

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Over the last decade, the real estate arm of Quebec’s $300 billion pension fund tore through U.S. billion in 2015 to buy the 1.2 In 2015 it also teamed up with the Blackstone Group to buy Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village for $5.3 The Caisse pension fund reported a -6.2 In New York, it paid $2.2

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APG and Ivanhoé Cambridge Back Scape's $658M Student Housing JV in Australia

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APG had backed Scape’s earlier development joint ventures, which were established in 2015 and 2018, with Ivanhoe Cambridge having committed $649 million to the company’s core strategy in 2022.

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OTPP and PSP Investments Looking to Unload Cubico for $6 Billion

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In 2015 the two funds partnered with Banco Santander SA (SAN.MC) to launch Cubico, and became equal owners after buying out the Spanish bank's stake the following year. The three firms launched the London-based renewable energy and water infrastructure company in May 2015. Ontario Teachers' has invested alongside major U.S.

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Ontario Teachers' Acquires UK Wealth Manager 7IM

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Iñaki Echave, senior managing director at OTPP said: "We intend to leverage our sector expertise and flexible capital to accelerate 7IM’s growth organically and through M&A." 7IM was acquired by Caledonia in September 2015 and has grown both organically and through acquisition. Aquiline declined to comment. excluding a further £13.2m

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CPP Investments' Andrew Edgell on Private Debt's Next Stress Test

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That said, on the positive side, if you look across the US high yield and leveraged loan issuer market, we have had eight consecutive quarters of positive, albeit decelerating, revenue and earnings growth. I’d say on balance, the leveraged space and the economy generally have been trending better than one might have expected.

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Best Caisse Scenario?

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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.