Pension Pulse

AUGUST 10, 2023

Tim Kiladze of the Globe and Mail reports CPP’s investment arm reports small loss in first quarter, assets grow to $575-billion: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) delivered a 0.8-per-cent Private assets include real estate, infrastructure and private credit, and commercial real estate in particular is facing intense scrutiny.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

Ian Bickis of The Canadian Press reports CPP Investments earned 8 per cent in latest fiscal year, net assets rose to $632 billion: Canada's biggest pension fund earned an eight per cent return last year, but significantly underperformed the 19.9 CPPIB's net assets totalled $632.3 The increase in net assets included $46.4

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But this is a multi-headed media conglomerate with cable arms, with intellectual property, movies. Discovery has many valuable assets, including Household Linear TV Channels like Animal Planet, CNN, HGTV, Discovery, Echo go on. All of this is to say, this is a storage company with many segments and immensely valuable assets.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

Peter is the guy I look to when I wanna learn things about how to build a firm, how to grow organically, how to think about acquisitions, how to structure your company, really to become an enterprise as opposed to merely being a business. You did no acquisitions. 00:16:55 [Speaker Changed] So tell us about the 401k acquisition.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so I joined Goldman in there, it was a 12-person merger department. So I joined Goldman and their merger department, but said, I’d like to be your LBO guy. The head of mergers and everyone watched over me there. I started at Goldman at ’81 doing, you know, mostly raid work and more traditional merger and seller work.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Discovery that's pleasing its investors, and why the media conglomerate may be a falling knife. This is a week after Comcast announced that it was straight up spinning off most of its cable assets. Streaming and studios now will include Max and other streaming assets. A restructuring at Warner Bros.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Still, it seems likely that it will rise back above the mark again, effectively making the conglomerate the tenth trillion-dollar company. First, bank investors are hopeful that the incoming Trump administration will bring a looser new regulatory framework on the antitrust front that would encourage more mergers and acquisitions.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Like many of the investing greats, Seth Klarman takes a value approach, in which he tries to find stocks and other assets trading below their intrinsic value and buy them at a discount. The company plans to appeal the court ruling and is likely to fight any attempts to make the conglomerate sell its Chrome browser.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, by the time I got there, it was well beyond just, you know, financing customer acquisitions of appliances. You know, if you’ve got $650 billion of assets floating around, including loans of actual buildings because you’re in the real estate business — RITHOLTZ: Right. Remember, you can create electricity.

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