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On CPP Investments' Insanely Large Allocation to Private Equity

Pension Pulse

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. If I were running a pension fund, I would be very careful about what was being offered to me. For example, Sen.

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

Pension Pulse

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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Best Caisse Scenario?

Pension Pulse

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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Will Finance Canada Reinstate Foreign Content Limits For Pensions?

Pension Pulse

“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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Warren Buffett Quotes Under the Microscope

The Motley Fool

It's such an interesting case to me because these earplugs were manufactured from 2003 until the mid-2015, I believe, and 3M bought the company that made them in 2007. This settlement, it's not a ruling, it's a settlement, comes with, you're not going to believe this, Dylan, no admission of liability. It was 3M buying a product.

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The Shift Toward Transition Investing is Accelerating

Pension Pulse

These may be brown firms that have committed to align with the 2015 Paris Agreement or firms that haven’t yet made the pledge but are equipped to engage with investors. As far as transition assets, there are opportunities for pension funds to earn great returns but it's a much longer process and requires a lot more work.

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Are Insurance Companies Safe?

Tucker Advisors

As an added protection for policyholders, a failing insurance company cannot access federal bankruptcy laws to escape liability for its debts. Below are 10 stories that present a trend of corporations transferring the liabilities of their pension plans into the safety of indexed annuities with insurance companies.