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CDPQ's 2023 Sustainable Investing Report

Pension Pulse

Environment CDPQ is well on track to achieve the targets underpinning the climate strategy it adopted in 2021, including its goal of reaching a net-zero portfolio by 2050 with: $53 billion in low-carbon assets, including $15 billion in Québec, representing an overall increase of $35 billion in low-carbon assets since 2017.

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On IMCO's Focused Approach to Investing Outside Canada

Pension Pulse

The US withdrew from the TransPacific Partnership in 2017. Real investment advantages include things like operational leverage (e.g., the ability to leverage centralized risk, legal, HR, IT, back and middle office capabilities), relevant sectoral expertise, the ability to leverage scale (e.g.,

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In Conversation: Simone Arnaboldi, Founder and Managing Partner, Arcadia SGR

Private Equity Wire

With patience, we succeeded in raising a very small fund, just enough to start with operations. We raised €53m, and then had the opportunity to raise a second fund in 2017 that touched €80m. SA: The first biggest challenge was fundraising for our first private equity fund – as I’ve said, we did that in adverse market conditions.

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BlackRock (BLK) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

This approach is yielding profitable growth and operating leverage. As clients increasingly turn to BlackRock, we believe this will result in sustained market-leading organic growth, differentiated operating leverage and earnings and multiple expansion over time. With that, I'll turn it over to Larry.

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Realty Income (O) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

This spread was supported by $165 million of adjusted free cash flow available after dividend payments to fund investments. These spreads are based on our short-term nominal cost of capital that measures the year-one dilution from utilizing external capital and excess free cash flow on a leverage-neutral basis to fund our investment volume.

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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. During that decade, the investor also scooped up Goldman Sachs’ former headquarters at 85 Broad Street in the Financial District, which the company bought for $650 million in 2017. The Caisse pension fund reported a -6.2

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CalSTRS Beefs Up its PE Co-Investments to Lower Costs, Improve Returns

Pension Pulse

billion in costs since 2017 thanks to its collaborative model approach, which brings more assets in-house and encourages the use of different investment vehicles, including co-investment, joint ventures, SMAs, direct ownership and revenue share. In both scenarios, CalSTRS would reduce leverage when the markets and cash flows normalize.

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