Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Swiss Life Asset Managers has launched its first open-ended private infrastructure fund, Swiss Life Funds (LUX) Privado Infrastructure S.A., With a recommended investment horizon of at least seven years, the fund complements existing investments across asset classes like cash, bonds, equities or real estate.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Willis Towers Watson put out a press release stating the world’s top pension funds see the largest assets fall in 20 years: North America now accounts for nearly half of assets in world’s 300 largest pension funds ARLINGTON, Va., increase in the assets of the largest 300 pension funds in the previous year.

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Pension Funds Assets Funds Asset Management 59

Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A report by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada found that between 2003 and 2017, Canadian pension funds invested $25 billion in the region. The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has had an on-the-ground presence on the continent for over a decade, and currently has offices in Singapore as well as Hong Kong and Mumbai.

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Pension Funds Investment Horizon Assets Asset Management 59

Pension Pulse

JANUARY 15, 2025

billion portfolio of European warehouses to AustralianSuper, forming a joint venture with Australias largest pension fund manager to help ramp up its exposure to logistics and industrial properties. James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Oxford Properties sells 50% stake in $1.2-billion

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This occurs when the value of bonds and shares of publicly listed firms decline, as they did recently, bringing down the total assets of a pension fund. Canadian pension funds are among the largest private equity investors in the world. Denominator effect The first is what’s known as the “denominator effect.”

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Stakes Pension Funds Assets Buyout 59

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.

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Portfolios Pension Funds Due Diligence Investing 69

Pension Pulse

JULY 3, 2024

Sarah Rundell of Top1000funds reports AIMCo talks total portfolio approach, private credit, and risk: Alberta Investment Management Corporation, AIMCo, the $160 billion asset manager for pensions, endowments and insurance groups in Canada’s western province, is developing a total portfolio approach in private assets.

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Portfolios Due Diligence Pension Funds Debt 59