Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Layan Odeh of Bloomberg reports CPPIB plows at least $5 billion into private equity in three months: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board poured at least $5 billion into private equity in the last three months of 2024 as the asset class regained appeal. Our original investment in the company was made in 2018.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

CPP Investments invests in private equity in two ways. The first is via direct investments, where it holds ownership stakes that vary from passive, minority positions, up to 100% control of private companies. The second is through private equity funds run by private equity firms, such as KKR and Blackstone.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However, some schemes said the higher costs of investing in unlisted companies could push up their own fees and deter investors. Nest, the UK government-backed workplace pension fund, said it preferred proven business models to early-stage venture capital. of the fund's assets were invested in listed stocks, 27.1%

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others. Those are the publicly traded asset classes that private credit is most comparable to.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 2, 2024

Moving into 2023, he set a goal of reducing the pension’s PE allocation to 18 percent within three years, primarily by selling companies and exiting fund stakes via the secondaries market. These professionals had been trained to spot top private companies and PE funds, rather than to sell their investments.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Michiel Willams of Net Zero Investor reports OMERS’ sustainability chief on why the C$127bn fund’s green investment spree will not slow down: OMERS, the defined benefit (DB) plan for municipal employees in Ontario, is increasingly positioning itself as one of Canada's greenest pension fund investors. to sell its 24.5%

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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. That's obviously important, but there's a defensive component to purpose-built student accommodation that pension funds very attractive.

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