Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Advocacy groups have accused the private fund industry of unfair, conflicted and opaque practices that hurt everyday Americans who invest in such funds through their pensions. It's not as if some state pension fund benefits from opacity," SEC Chair Gary Gensler told reporters after the panel's vote.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 12, 2024

The second was appropriate systems and controls, so that if a university wanted to conduct due diligence on UPP before committing staff pensions to it, “we wanted excellent marks”. Some call it hedge funds but we focus on absolute returns. I think our central bank has done a decent job getting us to this point.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Teachers' invests in portable battery company aiming to replace gas-powered generators: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading a US$95-million funding round for Instagrid GmbH, a German maker of portable battery systems designed to replace gas-powered generators.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I was actually running the Investment Banking Club at BYU, and you know, thought I was interested in that, interested in going to Wall Street. Tell us a little bit about the corporate culture which is decidedly different than the typical Wall Street bank. Look, our parents all had pension funds. LAYTON: Yeah.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mr. Hill will join OMERS in September, the public pension fund announced Wednesday, and report to Ralph Berg, who took over as the chief investment officer in April. He also spent 25 years in investment banking at Japanese dealer Nomura Securities, German lender Deutsche Bank AG and U.S.-based based Morgan Stanley.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

To lead the bank’s efforts in investing in sovereign debt restructurings and to bring our clients along was a great experience. KOENIGSBERGER: — you know, when I got to Merrill in 1995, and you looked at the trade blotter of who you were trading with, it was basically banks trading with each other. KOENIGSBERGER: Yeah.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

So the greenwashing underneath the fund is a whole nother layer that most regular people cannot go that deep into due diligence and figure this out. 0:44:46.8 : Or it’s like Florida and Louisiana divesting their pension funds from anything BlackRock-related. Pension funds, endowments, etc.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

billion from one of our large pension fund clients. We also completed large index deals with two of the world's top investment banks, which Baer will discuss shortly. We completed large deals with several multistrategy hedge funds, including conversions of a one-time Float Data sales into recurring subscription deals.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This was the era, 2005, 2006, all of my friends were looking to get banking roles. And so we, we get this contract written and I go off to grad school assuming I would go work at a big bank doing sales and trading in some quant role. Somehow no one in due diligence ever asked them about any of this. No one knew who I was.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Invested €60 million into a syndicated credit-linked note with a leading global bank headquartered in Europe for a diversified portfolio of corporate loans. 4) HOOPP shared new discussion paper by Stephen Poloz, the ninth Governor of the Bank of Canada. Completed a multi-year forward flow agreement with Exeter Finance LLC, a U.S.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And if you’re a lazy value investor buying high yields, you’re going to be buying a lot of banks right now. DAMODARAN: A lot of regional banks right now have dividend yields of 6, 7, 8 percent. DAMODARAN: The write-offs are going to be the banks writing it off. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Not the debt. RITHOLTZ: Wait.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

And we said, let’s just take a little detour here and make sure we understand the credit risk of these things before we sort of travel, start making markets and banking and, and, and really making these a core part of our business. There were financial experiments where the borrower hadn’t been through due diligence.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

officials allege: Senior executives at Quebec’s provincial pension fund manager tried to win contracts by paying Indian officials hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes and interfered with corruption investigations in the United States, American prosecutors allege. Securities and Exchange Commission. Miller said in a statement.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 12, 2025

Wendling said that although Carney, former governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, is known to Bay Street, HOOPPs management is agnostic when it comes to which party governs. More boot son the ground, we can see better opportunities and also do better due diligence on the investments we have there."

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