Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“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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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In 2008, during the GFC, he joined CPP Investments working in the Total Portfolio Management group (now Total Fund Management) before moving into Private Investments. In February 2021, he was appointed President & CEO of CPP Investments.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Caledonia acquired 7IM in 2015, and the firm has since acquired a number of regional wealth managers as smaller firms look to consolidate amid regulatory and cost pressures. 7IM was acquired by Caledonia in September 2015 and has grown both organically and through acquisition. According to Reuters , Evercore advised 7IM on the deal.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 3, 2024

But there are fewer sons and daughters for ageing parents to rely on - one reason is the "one-child" diktat which prevented couples from having two or more children between 1980 to 2015. But the pension fund could run out of money by 2035, according to the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

between 2015 and the end of 2021. trillion in 2015 to$13.32 Alternative investments, such as real estate, private equity, hedge funds, commodities, private credit, structured notes and cryptocurrencies, introduce a new level of diversification that can help protect your portfolio during market fluctuations.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

between 2015 and the end of 2021. trillion in 2015 to$13.32 Alternative investments, such as real estate, private equity, hedge funds, commodities, private credit, structured notes and cryptocurrencies, introduce a new level of diversification that can help protect your portfolio during market fluctuations.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s been one of the best investments across the firm since we bought it in 2015—and the type of smart partner we’re proud to work with. I know this is talking our book, but we own 83% of the equity in Antares Capital and believe they possess all these attributes and that it’s been key to their success.

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Tucker Advisors

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

“GM Unloads $26 Billion in White-Collar Pensions; Could Union Workers Be Next?” Kimberley-Clark buys annuities to cover pension risks” Business Insurance; Feb. 23, 2015 [link]. Molson Coors transfers $900 million in pension liabilities” Pensions & Investments; Dec. Forbes; June 1, 2012 [link]. 4, 2017 [link].

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Mr. Money Mustache

AUGUST 22, 2020

Public pension funds have started to “divest” from oil company stocks, and various social issues like human rights, child labor, climate change or corporate corruption have bubbled to the surface at different times. How can I get the benefits of investing for early retirement without contributing to the decline of humanity?”.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Thomas Gualtieri and Dinesh Nair of Bloomberg report Canadian Pension Funds Ready €7 Billion Sale of Cubico: Canada’s Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and PSP Investments are about to kick off the sale of renewable energy company Cubico Sustainable Investments, according to people with knowledge of the matter. KKR & Co.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. Whenever you get news and whenever you get bounds put around something, even if the news is bad, that becomes a known as opposed to something that you guess at.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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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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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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

US private equity giant KKR and top Canadian pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board ( CPPIB) have launched a $465 million block deal in Indus Towers as both investors eye an exit from the leading telecom tower company, multiple industry sources in the know told Moneycontrol. In 2017, Bharti Airtel sold a 10.3

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 12, 2024

Former Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt also wanted to build a Canadian-style pensions model in Britain, but progress had been slow. Reeves has announced a review, overseen by the new pensions minister Emma Reynolds, to look into how to achieve scheme consolidation and put pension funds to use in promoting UK growth.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 4, 2024

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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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Amanda White of Top1000funds reports perfect score sees Norway take out top spot on transparency: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, Government Pension Fund Global, has topped the list of the most transparent funds according to the Global Pension Transparency Benchmark’s 2024 findings, scoring a perfect 100 out of 100.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

helping to drive the best same capital cash NOI growth that we have seen since I joined Digital Realty in 2015. And look, we continue to see strong interest across the board, so not just PE shops, but we see infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies, and the like.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 30, 2024

The original private equity investment vehicle, formed more than a decade ago, is at the end of its life and other Aspenleaf shareholders are rolling their stakes into a continuation fund. But the Ontario pension fund has decided it would rather exit now, the people said. according to a statement at the time.

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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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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

MIAN: In 2015, Carl Icahn sold all his Netflix stake because it was too expensive. He sold half his Apple stock in 2015. In 2015, Bill Gurley at Benchmark was saying Silicon Valley is in a bubble. RITHOLTZ: That’s right. MIAN: From $32 to like I think 16 or $18. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 14, 2023

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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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

APRIL 9, 2024

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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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. In addition to his $150 million gift to Yale for a student life hub in 2015, Schwarzman donated $350 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 for the Schwarzman College of Computing.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mr. Hill will join OMERS in September, the public pension fund announced Wednesday, and report to Ralph Berg, who took over as the chief investment officer in April. The fact that other large Canadian pension funds keep poaching talent away from CPP Investments tells you how much talent there is there. billion ($3.72

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) announced it has agreed to a restructure and sale of a 21% partial interest in the Kendall Square Development Venture (KDV I) in South Korea. Established in January 2015, the Luxembourg office has supported our investment activities in Europe.

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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. There were dramatic markdowns of unlisted real estate assets in the second half of the year and this is worth noting as Canada's large pension funds prepare to report their results.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

utility firm AES Corp said on Tuesday it would sell a 30% indirect equity interest in its Ohio subsidiary to Canada's second-largest pension fund CDPQ for $546 million, which will be used to support infrastructure investments. Reuters also reports AES Corp to sell interest in Ohio unit for $546 million: U.S.

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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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Pension Pulse

JULY 26, 2023

United Nations (UN) processes which led to the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015 and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in December 2022 (5) clearly see business as both part of the problem and the solution. The British Academy study is not unique in citing the negative role of business in causing ecological damage.

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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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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

In addition to insurance clients, pension funds and other LPs see the value we're creating in private credit, and there's been a strong response to our product offerings. I would just frame this by saying, we set up our data science business back in 2015. We've got more than 50 people on that team today.

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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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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

I think it was 2015. Public pension funds that manage hundreds of billion dollars can be manned by professionals that make $80 to $150,000 a year. Where I came from, it spans sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, incredibly global. It was a year or two before he passed away. RITHOLTZ: When did he pass?

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