Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2024

Earlier today, Ivanhoé Cambridge issued a press release stating Scape Australia closed its third PBSA development JV at AUD1.0bn alongside it and APG: Sydney, Australia, April 9, 2024 – Scape Australia has formed a partnership with Dutch pension investor APG Asset Management N.V. (‘APG’) What about Canada?

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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 7, 2023

They’re talking about asset management firms, in which public pension funds often have investments, supporting shareholder proposals meant to achieve social justice or climate objectives yet of dubious financial value. They could simply carry on trying to maximize returns.

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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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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 Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 21, 2023

He added that over the last en years, their green assets have been outperforming non-green assets. I told him I track pension funds very closely and there's no doubt CDPQ is a global leader in sustainable/ responsible investing. For us, it's a question of returns and what's in the best interest of our depositors."

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

Mathieu Chabran is the co-founder of TIKEHAU Capital, a Paris-based alternative asset manager. They run over $40 billion worth of assets. I don’t know how relevant that is to asset management, but let’s talk a little bit about you were doing before you were being lauded by the French president.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ESG also aims to promote supposedly the goal of ESG is to promote the growth of companies that are supportive of beneficial practices, which is debatable and we’re going to get to that. 0:44:46.8 : Or it’s like Florida and Louisiana divesting their pension funds from anything BlackRock-related. Impact investing.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ken Kencel, Churchill Asset Management , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Ken Kencel of Churchill Asset Management, CEO, Founder, President. This is really a fascinating story. It’s fantastic.

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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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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And I went to pitch this asset management guy on why he should come be a part of that process. But for individuals, historically, there have not been great options to invest into private companies. It’s been one of the best performing asset classes for decades. Look, our parents all had pension funds.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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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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