Pension Pulse

JANUARY 10, 2024

The 2020 Covid recession was deep and certainly a stress test the asset class unquestionably passed, but it was also short-lived. A combination of our scale, certainty of assets, and our long investment horizon make us uniquely positioned as a global investor. trillion today, with nearly $700 billion being deployed in North America.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 14, 2024

Pension plans and insurers have been piling into funds that invest in equity tranches of collateralized loan obligations in recent months, according to several asset managers who spoke on the condition of anonymity. billion in assets, said the attraction of low default rates for leveraged loans, estimated at 1.5%-2%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

In the first quarter, our funds reported steady appreciation overall, highlighted by strength in infrastructure, credit, and our multi-asset investing platform, BXMA. Our long-term capital provides the flexibility and firepower to invest while affording us the patience to sell assets when the time is right.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2024

is shaking up the top ranks of management, creating a new global product strategy group led by Stephen Cohen that will latch onto the global growth of exchange-traded funds and combine active and index strategies. billion in a major push into alternative assets. BlackRock shares fell slightly at 7:05 a.m. in early New York trading.

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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. Well guess what?

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

A month ago, Eliyahu Kamisher of the Los Angels Times reported that CalPERS pension fund posts 5.8% gain in its latest fiscal year as the stock market rally and private debt buoyed the largest traditional public pension fund in the United States. on private debt, as private equity slipped 2.3%, real assets dropped 3.1%

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2024

Ishika Mookerjee and Sheryl Tian Tong Lee of Bloomberg report Quebec pension struggles to deploy $7 billion for energy transition: One of Canada’s biggest pension funds says it hasn’t been able to deploy the CAD 10 billion ($7.3 The other thing that is tricky is what exactly constitutes energy transition assets?

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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. This has culminated in an announcement from Ottawa to explore ways to have pension funds invest more domestically. This outperformance aggregated to $4.2-billion

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

net return for first half of 2023: TORONTO - The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board says it earned a net return of 1.9 The pension fund’s total net assets stood at $249.8 The growth came as the fund earned a 12-month total-fund net return of 4.8 1 the plan was fully funded with a $17.5-billion

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

Clients entrusted us with over 80 billion of net new assets. It was 150 billion of flows, excluding episodic client activity. trillion in assets under management, 10.6 Investors waiting in cash have missed out on significant equity market returns over the last year, and more investors are stepping back into risk assets.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

With supportive markets and more optimistic sentiment from clients, we're confident in our ability to both grow assets on behalf of clients and drive profitable growth for our shareholders. In addition, as many of you know, we updated the presentation of expense line items by including a new sales, asset and account income statement caption.

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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. Ken Kencel, welcome to Bloomberg.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

Today, we are announcing two transformational changes in anticipation of the evolution we see ahead for the asset management industry and for the entire global capital markets. We've spoken throughout the year about what conditions we'd expect to bring investors out of cash and into risk assets.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Amanda White of Top1000funds reports perfect score sees Norway take out top spot on transparency: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, Government Pension Fund Global, has topped the list of the most transparent funds according to the Global Pension Transparency Benchmark’s 2024 findings, scoring a perfect 100 out of 100.

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