Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Sarah Rundell of Top1000Funds recently interviewed Suyi Kim, Global Head of Private Equity at CPP Investments to go over what drives success at their giant PE portfolio: Suyi Kim, global head of private equity at CPP Investments manages quite possibly the largest private equity allocation in the world. China accounts for 9.8%

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Pension Pulse

JULY 2, 2024

The country’s second-largest pension has been a seasoned private equity investor for almost half a century. However, it wasn’t until the last decade that the asset class began to account for a significant part of its investment portfolio: CDPQ’s private equity assets nearly doubled from 10.1 percent in 2022.

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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. for one year.

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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

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

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) is just one of the numerous pension fund and major ILS investors we track in our directories here. First, read my comment covering HOOPP's 2022 results where the plan remains fully funded despite losing 8.6%

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The statement, sent exclusively to the National Post , marks the first time Poilievre has explicitly addressed the issue of Alberta’s proposal to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and set up its own pension fund. My take: This is a great deal for BCI and Searchlight, a private equity firm BCI seeded.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 14, 2024

"For the 15 th consecutive year, OPTrust is fully funded, and the people we serve can continue to rely on a secure, sustainable pension." For OPTrust members, investment returns account for more than 70 per cent of the benefits they receive in retirement , with more than $1.3 at optrust.com.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But if I had a plan as to how to do that when I went to college, it was learn as much as I could, as fast as I could and get a ba and then become an accountant and a lawyer. I’m gonna imagine private companies don’t have that sort of ability to float debt, but they certainly can issue some sort of a fixed rate.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And so we are very, very focused on making our boards the center of vision and strategy and accountability. Our board members work more intensively with our companies, have a greater time commitment than most board members are used to. Look, our parents all had pension funds. Our kids are all going to have 401(k)s.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

First of all, Secondary market trading doesn’t really impact the company. It does not go to Apple’s checking account. Secondly, The ”bad companies” who are the offenders already have enough capital. They aren’t issuing shares to fund their operations. trillion held by all of the companies in the S&P 500.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

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.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. You’ve talked about pensions are now facing illiquidity issues because private equity and venture capital have gates up a lot, a lot of long-term tie up. So it, it really has and, and pension funds, they’re on hold today.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So the theory was that’s great that you’re providing a loan, but if you can co-invest with them and get the upside of partnering with some of the most successful private equity funds in the United States, you know, a great way to enhance your returns. They’re not held by one fund. And I said three things.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

And whilst we were dealing with the same counterparty, the same pension fund, some of their constituents, some of the underlying boards, disagree on the approach to take there. Some of our LPs are very often made up of different boards, some teachers, firemen, policeman, you know, employees, public servants employees.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Nicolas Van Praet of the Globe and Mail reports pension giant Caisse strikes deal to acquire Innergex Renewable Energy: Canadian pension fund giant Caisse de dpt et placement du Qubec has struck a deal to buy Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. The Caisse will pay $13.75

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

I think that private equity sees this as an opportunity, because they’re not really growing the institutional aspect of their business. Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. MORGENSON: Well, these are private companies, not the firms themselves.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 21, 2025

Barbara Shecter of the National Post wrote a comment asking whether the Canadian pension model can survive a new era of politicization: Rachel Reeves, the U.K.s new chancellor of the exchequer, had a goal in mind when she flew to Toronto last August to meet with the heads of some of Canadas largest pension funds.

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