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Prudential Financial (PRU) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Representing Prudential on today's call are Charlie Lowrey, chairman and CEO; Rob Falzon, vice chairman; Andy Sullivan, head of international businesses, and PGIM, our global investment manager; Caroline Feeney, head of US businesses; Yanela Frias, chief financial officer; and Rob Axel, controller and principal accounting officer.

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Mark Wiseman on Why Politicians Should Leave Pension Funds Alone

Pension Pulse

The system works exceptionally well, yet in the past year, we have seen increasing calls to change this model and use pension funds as a policy tool. The system works exceptionally well, yet in the past year, we have seen increasing calls to change this model and use pension funds as a policy tool.

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On CPP Investments' Insanely Large Allocation to Private Equity

Pension Pulse

Private equity now accounts for 33 per cent of their portfolio. pension fund, has only about 11% of its assets invested in private equity, while Norway’s oil fund, one of the world’s largest wealth funds, has no investments in private equity at all. A pension plan exists to meet future liabilities.

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More on the Federal Government's Pension Push to Invest More in Canada

Pension Pulse

The federal government pledged in its fall economic statement on Tuesday to “work collaboratively” with Canadian pension funds to create an environment that encourages them to put more of the trillions of dollars of assets they collectively manage to work domestically. That has put pension fund managers on guard.

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Letko and Brosseau Set the Record Straight on Why Pensions Should Invest More in Canada

Pension Pulse

Earlier today, I spoke with Peter Letko and Daniel Brosseau of LetkoBrosseau Global Investment Management to set the record straight on where they stand on Canadian pension funds investing more in Canada. It may seem appealing to encourage pension funds to invest more of our combined funds of over $2-trillion in Canada.

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Ontario Government Launches Governance Review of OMERS

Pension Pulse

Over the summer, multiple associations representing OMERS members wrote to the government urging it to review governance at the $133-billion pension fund, which invests on behalf of more than 626,000 Ontario public service workers.

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Another UK Pension Disaster in the Making?

Pension Pulse

A mixture of things, with Robert Maxwell’s theft (1991), Gordon Brown’s dividend tax raid (1997), and accounting standard FRS 17 (2000) all playing a part. But combined, these things all made providing DB pensions increasingly burdensome for private sector companies. What killed the corporate DB scheme? So they stopped offering them.