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Ara Partners Raises Over $3bn for Fund III, Investing in Industrial Decarbonization

Private Equity Insights

Fund III will continue Ara’s strategy of investing in the decarbonization of the industrial economy, the greatest source of carbon emissions globally. . ” Mr. Cherington and Mr. Thacker founded Ara in 2017. is weighing a bid for UK's Pension Insurance Corporation. Source: CISION PR Newswire Can’t stop reading?

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AIMCo Opens Its First Asia Office in Singapore

Pension Pulse

A report by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada found that between 2003 and 2017, Canadian pension funds invested $25 billion in the region. The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has had an on-the-ground presence on the continent for over a decade, and currently has offices in Singapore as well as Hong Kong and Mumbai.

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Canada Growth Fund to Invest $50-Million in Idealist Capital

Pension Pulse

The investment in Idealist marks the third by Canada Growth Fund, a $15-billion pool set up by Ottawa to help direct private-sector capital to Canadian technologies that help meet its commitments to reduce emissions. It is managed by PSP Investments, a public-sector pension-fund manager. a unit of Advantage Energy Ltd.

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Will OMERS and BCI Drown Along With Thames Water?

Pension Pulse

The company is still in talks with its shareholders about raising as much as £1 billion in fresh funds following a £500 million injection agreed last year. Its largest shareholder is Canadian pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers), which holds a nearly 32 per cent stake. billion in Canadian funds.

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Calling Code Red on Chicago's Disastrous Public Pensions

Pension Pulse

Among the wealth of tables is a list of the best and worst-funded of the 58 local pension plans studied, and, yes, you guessed it, the bottom five spots are Chicago plans, with the bottom three at levels far below all others: Municipal employees, 21% funded, Chicago police, 21.8% funded, and Chicago fire, 18.8%

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On IMCO's Focused Approach to Investing Outside Canada

Pension Pulse

The US withdrew from the TransPacific Partnership in 2017. the ability to leverage centralized risk, legal, HR, IT, back and middle office capabilities), relevant sectoral expertise, the ability to leverage scale (e.g., Most of Canada's large pension funds including CPP Investments are rethinking their investments in China.

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Are Insurance Companies Safe?

Tucker Advisors

Safeguarding against a potential failure is the Insurance Guarantee Fund, which every insurance company is legally required to pay into, and which is also managed by state-sanctioned insurance guaranty associations. They are legal entities backed by the insurance commissioner in every U.S. 4, 2017 [link].