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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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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Pension Pulse

MARCH 18, 2024

Already when she joined Ivanhoé Cambridge as Chief Financial Officer in 2015, the real estate group had 1,500 employees. She wishes to leverage the vision she developed during the various organizational transformation experiences she has had during her professional life. return for one year, above its index (-10%).

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

And now we've transitioned to addressing the sector's growing power needs, leveraging our sizable energy infrastructure platform, which includes the largest private renewables developer in North America. And we think long term, there is a -- it's a robust margin position that we'll scale and leverage over time.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Oxford boasts a well-established commitment to sustainability and decarbonization, having achieved a 37 per cent reduction in its portfolio carbon intensity in 2021 (vs 2015 base year), surpassing its public goal of a 30 per cent reduction in carbon intensity by 2025. Canada's pension funds saw the writing on the wall before the pandemic hit.

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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 Our original investment was made in 2015.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Leveraged Buyouts In contrast, there are leveraged buyouts (LBOs) that involve acquiring established companies with the aim of restructuring or improving their operations to enhance profitability.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Leveraged Buyouts In contrast, there are leveraged buyouts (LBOs) that involve acquiring established companies with the aim of restructuring or improving their operations to enhance profitability.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Just thinking the Layer 2 solutions have been around now, I think Lightning was started back in 2015. Brian Armstrong -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Yeah, it's a good question because if I go back to 2015, I probably would have thought it would have happened faster. And it was very nascent. So, it really runs a wide gamut.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Importantly, no other large Canadian pension fund has allocated as much to Credit as CPP Investments (or Private Equity which makes up 33% of of its total assets). We own 83% of the equity in Antares and that has been our best investment across the firm since we bought that in 2015 (no doubt, it is their best investment ever).

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 7, 2023

Currently, the operating model and governance structures for the fund are still being finalized. Orida said PSP Investments is “ready to hit the ground running by leveraging the expertise that we already have in house.” We established it back in 2015, and it has an (annualized) 11.2 per cent return since inception.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

And the solutions piece is the piece where we work with in effect our institutional clients or institutional client business, but those institutional clients are pension funds, their endowments, they are looking after the pensions and the savings of real individuals. The individuals that might — mom and dad right.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

In fact, virtually all of our drawdown funds we've launched in our history, have been profitable for our investors. Our performance has helped secure retirees' pensions, fund students educations, pay healthcare benefits, and protect and grow the savings of individual investors. banks with an average of 12 times leverage.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Committed US$150 million to American Industrial Partners Capital Fund VIII, which will primarily target value-oriented, control investments in the North American industrials sector. Our original investment was made in 2015 alongside BPEA EQT. Our original investments were made between 2015-2017. Read his full comment here.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

pension fund, has only about 11% of its assets invested in private equity, while Norway’s oil fund, one of the world’s largest wealth funds, has no investments in private equity at all. But which businesses were acquired by the Apollo fund? How leveraged are the investments? For example, Sen.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

That’s a 5x increase since the financial crisis and a doubling since 2015. Well, because we were a very conservative lender and because we were going into transactions with very reasonable leverage, in fact, our average equity in our transactions has been running about 55, 60 percent equity, right? KENCEL: That’s right.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 3, 2024

And the focus of pension funds and other asset managers needs to squarely be on opportunities in the transition economy. billion watts of electric capacity – the highest amount of electric capacity under construction the industry has seen since 2015. How can pension funds take part in the new nuclear revolution?

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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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Pension Pulse

MAY 6, 2024

Some organizations have pushed instead for the creation of social impact funds that facilitate business conversions to forms of employee ownership that are meant to last in perpetuity and provide more worker leverage over decisions like a company’s sale. Norman Rockwell never did paint Arthur, illinois. for $ 700 million.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. RITHOLTZ: Clearly, 401(k) is not a much faster growing part of the allocation landscape than either direct benefits or pensions, if anything, that side of the street is shrinking dramatically. And so, this is a ripe market for them.

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