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

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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

CDPQ's own public equities portfolio saw its performance "driven by growth stocks, as well as by large positions in Quebec companies, which performed well." The private equity portfolio was affected by interest rate hikes as well as by an increase in financing costs, which affected certain private companies.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 17, 2023

“The renewable energy, telecommunications and transportation sectors, to which (the Caisse) has been exposed for many years, are significant vectors of performance,” the pension fund said. In the first half of 2023, higher financing costs hurt the Caisse’s private-equity portfolio, which posted a return of 1.4 per cent. “In

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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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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 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.

Pension Funds 59

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