Pension Pulse

MARCH 19, 2025

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Ontario Teachers Pension Plan closes Hong Kong office: Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is closing its Hong Kong office and shifting some staff to Singapore, as the $256-billion pension fund looks to streamline its operations in Asia.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Bank of England (BoE) is intensifying its efforts to closely monitor risks in the non-bank financial sector, which includes private equity firms, hedge funds, and asset managers, according to a report by Institutional Investor. Results from this stress-testing exercise are expected by year-end.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

And that should increase utilization across its existing assets and provide new expansion opportunities. A megatrend investor capitalizing on a megatrend Alternative investments, like hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure, and real estate, have historically produced higher risk-adjusted returns than the public stock and bond markets.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2024

However, there's one significant development that could help it reach this lofty milestone -- spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Consider this: BlackRock 's iShares Bitcoin Trust became the fastest ETF in history to surpass $50 billion in assets under management (AUM), far outpacing the previous record holder.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2024

A $30 billion fund launched by the United Arab Emirates with the declared goal of funneling billions of dollars into climate finance is readying its next round of investments. and Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has called Alterra a “wonderful template” for others to copy.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 15, 2025

At the Money: Lessons in Allocating to Alternative Asset Classes. January, 15, 2025) Hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, and private credit have never been more popular. Investors have lots of questions when allocating to these asset classes: How much capital do you need? or more challenging. Is it bonds plus?

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 13, 2024

The report cites several anonymous asset managers in revealing that pension plans and insurers have been increasingly investing in funds that focus on equity tranches of collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) in recent months.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 14, 2023

IRA Capital, a private equity firm based in Southern California, has recently announced the launch of the IRA Healthcare Real Estate Fund. The closed-end fund, with a total capitalization of $500m, will focus on acquiring medical properties and senior housing assets across the United States. for its investors.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

billion take private bid from investing firm Arkhouse and hedge fund Brigade earlier this month. Read more Canada’s Top Pension Funds Embark on Major Private Credit Expansion with C$1.3 Trillion in Assets Six of Canada's biggest pension funds managing C$1.3 billion) in assets have.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Through our supervision activities, APRA has continued to address these issues with RSE licensees since the conclusion of the review," APRA said in a release that did not name any funds. Private assets are popular in Australia's A$2.4 Regulators are pushing private equity firms to do a better job when it comes to valuing their assets.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 22, 2024

Sarah Rundell of Top1000Funds reports UN pension fund slashes equity and pushes into impact and venture: The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) recently reduced the allocation to equity in its $92.5 We are in a strong position compared to peers,” reflects Guazo who has led investment since 2020.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 18, 2024

BlackRock particularly singled out pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments as the most likely candidates to buy Bitcoin. SWIB manages over $156 billion in assets, including the holdings of the Wisconsin Retirement System, the State Investment Fund, and other state trust funds.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 14, 2024

Laura Benitez and Nishant Kumar of Bloomberg report hedge funds draw pension money to riskiest corner of a $1.3 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.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

Global alternative asset manager Ares Management Corporation, has closed its latest private credit fund at $34bn, making its the largest private credit fund ever raised, and reflecting a of high level investor demand for the asset class. ”

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Ziply is currently owned by a group of private equity funds led by Searchlight Capital, and to fund its purchase, Montreal-based BCE will use $4.2-billion telecom-focused private equity fund WaveDivision Capital, LLC. Pacific Northwest, with operations and assets in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2024

You’d never know it to read the latest annual report from the fund’s managers, the CPP Investment Board, which spends much of its nearly 80,000 words boasting how, thanks to the herculean efforts of its employees and the sophisticated investment stratagems of its managers, it eked out an 8-per-cent return on investment for the CPP’s beneficiaries.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Blackstone (NYSE: BX) recently reached a huge milestone when it surpassed over $1 trillion in assets under management ( AUM ) in the second quarter. It became the first global alternative asset manager to hit that level and will add another notch to its belt when it joins the S&P 500 index later this month.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans agreed unanimously with six private equity and hedge fund groups who had argued that the the SEC exceeded its authority by adopting the rule in August.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

And to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if similar bribing schemes are also occurring at other CDPQ subsidiaries in India and at those of other large Canadian pension funds. Lastly, I am aware that bribes can happen anywhere, including here in Canada across all asset classes. He raises several important points there.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 21, 2024

Instead, the primary buyers appear to be Wall Street hedge funds. In fact, 80 of the largest buyers of the ETFs so far are hedge funds. One answer could be that the top buyers of the new ETFs are not retail investors (people like you and me) or large institutional investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. I literally wrote the investment memo for GMs investment into Accel IX, otherwise known as the "Facebook Fund." (I Because, venture isn''t about the money.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

Operationally, we delivered our highest Q1 recurring sales in analytics in a decade at $14 million, our best-ever Q1 of recurring sales among hedge funds at nearly $11 million, and another quarter of double-digit subscription run rate growth of 11% among asset owners, driven by index and analytics.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

Amir Barnea wrote another op-ed for the Toronto Star slamming CPP Investments for investing a third of its assets in private equity when Warren Buffet shuns it: When Canada’s national pension plan reported financial results in May, one fact really stood out for me: a full third of its assets — about $190 billion — are invested in private equity.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 2, 2024

In 2012 when I came to the fund, we had invested four percent of our portfolio in private equity,” CIO Marcus Frampton said. “We Last year, APFC’s staff decreased its private asset allocation from 19 percent to 15 percent, hypothesizing that there were better risk-adjusted returns to be had in asset classes like fixed income and hedge funds.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 18, 2024

When you see trillions of dollars in assets, when you see a government that is running deficits, when you see economic malaise – and we’ve seen this in other jurisdictions –this is the time when pension assets get raided. “The Canadian model is under threat today,” Wiseman said. To me, that’s sort of an attack on legitimacy.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

With China’s markets closed next week for the Golden Week holidays, domestic investors may be worried that the rally could continue in Hong Kong while they’re away, said David Chao, a strategist at Invesco Asset Management. The rally also severely hit a number of quantitative hedge funds in China, people familiar with the matter said.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 17, 2024

Denitsa Tsekova of Bloomberg reports a $300 billion pension fund leads big-money charge back to bonds: When Christopher Ailman became the chief investment officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System back in 2000, one of every four dollars it oversaw was invested in government, corporate and mortgage debt.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 18, 2024

The move by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas — which manages $202 billion of assets — is another setback for an industry that has struggled with dealmaking and fundraising after a prolonged era of easy profits. Texas Teachers is the second of the largest public pensions to officially reduce its target allocation to private equity.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. A fund, A fund to funds.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Top multi-strategy, event driven hedge funds and large hedge fund managers As the name implies, these hedge funds invest across a wide variety of hedge fund strategies like L/S Equity, L/S credit, global macro, convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, merger arbitrage, distressed debt and statistical pair trading.

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Top 1000 Funds

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

billion Finnish pension fund, Varma, explains how the fund’s diversification with a large equity allocation balanced by hedge funds, fixed income and real assets has meant it has been resilient to the increasing investment challenges. Markus Aho, chief investment officer of the €57.4

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Carly Wanna and Carmen Reinicke of Bloomberg report hedge funds pump up exposure to Nvidia, cut AMD: Hedge funds continued to lean into the biggest technology companies leading the way in artificial intelligence as the hype propelled the US stock market higher in the first quarter of the year. of its assets.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

Until you realize that vetting and helping companies is actually really hard--or did you not notice all the news that venture capital as an asset class doesn't beat the market. Instead, you create a dynamic where it's actually easier for bigger funds to raise money from big institutions.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 31, 2024

billion, delivers customized and multi-asset solutions across public and private markets to clients in North America, Europe and Asia Fiera Capital stock has added 25.38 billion, delivers customized and multi-asset solutions across public and private markets to clients in North America, Europe and Asia Fiera Capital stock has added 25.38

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Top 1000 Funds

MAY 29, 2023

Montreal-based Trans Canada Capital fuses its pension fund roots with the ethos of a relative value hedge fund for a unique investment approach that hunts uncorrelated alpha across the entire portfolio. Sarah Rundell speaks to two senior portfolio managers about their unique approach.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2024

Ainslie’s hedge fund Maverick Capital only trimmed its stake in Nvidia by 2.86% in the second quarter of 2024 after having first acquired almost 464,000 shares in the company in the first quarter of 2023. But this week, Bloomberg reports the yen carry trade that blew up markets is attracting hedge funds again.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

After a 38-year career working in the public pension fund arena, Ailman, 65, told P&I that he is ready to begin winding down his career. A veteran of market cycles Ailman is one of the longest-tenured CIOs in the world, taking over the post in October 2000 when the fund was valued at $109.6 It's time to slow down.

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