Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail stating ‘shadow banks’ aren’t a problem for the financial system – they are the solution: During the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09, society paid a heavy price for having allowed financial institutions to become “too big to fail.”

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 28, 2023

Patrick DeRochie, senior manager of Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health , wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail, stating Canada is burning, so why is our national pension fund still heavily into fossil fuels?: Yet CPPIB voted against climate-related shareholder resolutions at Imperial Oil Ltd., Enbridge Inc.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 3, 2024

Rather than continuing to plough in capital, the investment team are now thinking more about comparing opportunities across assets and anticipating future trends. Higher base rates, the shift from banks to private lenders and the proliferation of strategies to access private credit allow the market to grow larger, Zawadzki said.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 10, 2024

Central banks across the world continue to communicate the need to maintain restrictive monetary policy to achieve their inflation targets and that has had serious implications for the prevailing economic environment. Of course, this strong investment demand is currently happening at a time when LBO and M&A activity has been sluggish.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

It’s late April, and Emond is appearing at a hearing at Quebec’s National Assembly, where parliamentarians are zeroing in on a perceived dilution of the share of assets the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has invested at home, from 26.1% CPP Investments, meanwhile—Canada’s largest pension investor, with the Caisse at No.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 15, 2025

billion portfolio of European warehouses to AustralianSuper, forming a joint venture with Australias largest pension fund manager to help ramp up its exposure to logistics and industrial properties. The manager of the NOK19.73trn (1.68trn) Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global said it has paid $1.07bn for 45% of the 1.3m

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Alberta pension plan hired David Scudellari in 2023 as head of international investment. trillion asset class as higher interest rates have drawn investors and bank financing for deals has dried up. AIMCo invests on behalf of 15 pension, endowment and government clients in the oil-rich Canadian province.

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