Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Canada’s large pension funds have pulled back on some activities in China. I also want to recognize our peer Maple 8 pension fund managers, many of whom are here today. That’s one key reason large pension funds tend to seek private investments. Earlier this year, British Columbia Investment Management Corp.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Ropes & Gray LLP; Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP served as legal advisors. A few Canadian pension funds (namely PSP) did the same thing back in 2008, seizing loans for pennies on the dollar and made great returns back then.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Importantly, no other large Canadian pension fund has allocated as much to Credit as CPP Investments (or Private Equity which makes up 33% of of its total assets). Closed a C$230 million investment in the term loans of Legal Search, a provider of property- and corporate-related search services in Australia, the U.K.,

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

James Hirai of Bloomberg reports Dutch pension funds send shockwaves through euro swap market: Dutch pension funds are plowing cash into long-dated swap contracts, according to strategists, upending one of this year’s most popular trades. The funds, by far the region’s largest with more than €1.5 in a client note.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 27, 2023

As part of the agreement, FDJ, which is the operator of the French National Lottery, will purchase the shares from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, An Post, and An Post Pension Fund. PLI was awarded a 20 year contract to operate the National Lottery by the Irish Government back in 2014. An Post also welcomed the sale.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Silas Brown and Kat Hidalgo of Bloomberg report Florida pension to offload up to $4 billion of private credit: The Florida State Board of Administration is looking to sell a bundle of private credit stakes worth as much as $4 billion in what would be one of the largest deals of its kind, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

In private credit, tightening credit conditions resulting from a handful of bank failures and rescues in the United States have opened up opportunities for non-bank players like pension funds, he said. So we kind of had headwinds and tailwinds in the portfolio, which is the point of diversification,” Graham said. per cent return.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Whatever you can get for it, hit the bid. Just the learning what it takes to actually raise money, what it, what it, what it means to actually build a really strong infrastructure of finance, operations, legal team. And infrastructure today is bought by sovereign funds, big pension funds with a view that it is very steady.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

So I did my thesis on how leveraged buyouts work from the legal and the business side. We spent weeks, night and day, studying it, decided it wasn’t a good deal, decided not to bid, which I’m fine with. And then when we decided not to bid at 90, it eventually went up to, you know, 111 or something like that.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RITHOLTZ: You hit the bid before — RIEDER: Well, yes. Which is run by many insurance companies, pension funds who use Aladdin, and it’s a commercial enterprise for the firm. Didn’t it start as a bond shop, catering to pension funds and foundations? RIEDER: Yeah. RIEDER: It is. RIEDER: Right.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 23, 2024

CIBC Capital Markets acted as exclusive financial advisor and Gowling WLG acted as external legal counsel to Hydro One in connection with the transaction. TD Securities acted as exclusive financial advisor and Torys LLP acted as external legal counsel to OMERS and Enbridge in connection with the transaction.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The decision to put a senior government official on the board of the arm’s-length pension fund manager raises questions about AIMCo’s continued independence, and whether the move opens the door to the government to exert greater political influence or to steer the pension fund manager toward government priorities.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Nicolas Van Praet of the Globe and Mail reports pension giant Caisse strikes deal to acquire Innergex Renewable Energy: Canadian pension fund giant Caisse de dpt et placement du Qubec has struck a deal to buy Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. in a bid to leave the short-term view of stock market investors behind.

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