Pension Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

billion bid and Ottawa has said Glencore would face rigorous scrutiny. Canada's large pension funds are globally known investors, managing more than $1 trillion of savings, but their exposure to domestic equities has steadily declined over the past decade since Canadian equity markets represent just 3% of the global equity market.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 24, 2024

Florence Chong of IPE Real Assets reports ADQ buys 49% of infrastructure platform Plenary as CDPQ sells 20% stake ADQ, an Abu Dhabi state-owned investment company, has purchased a 49% stake in global public infrastructure group Plenary for an undisclosed price, believed to be around A$1bn (€609m).

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Montreal Gazette reports Rogers sells minority stake in Cogeco to CDPQ for $829 million: Rogers Communications announced Monday it has agreed to sell all its shares in Cogeco to the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec for $829 million in an effort to keep its investment-grade rating. Rogers held large stakes in Cogeco Inc.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

We are thrilled to be entering into this partnership, on behalf of our pension fund client ABP and Asset Owner Partners, and we are eager to work closely with the euNetworks team as they continue to develop and further their strategic vision.” agreed to buy a Permian Basin rival and a controlling stake in.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Bert also explains the main advantages IMCO and other large Canadian pension funds have, namely, large, stable capital inflows, ability to internalize asset management and use their size to negotiate lower fees, especially in private markets.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Razak Musah Baba of IPE Real Assets reports OMERS to buy Allianz’s stake in Indian road infrastructure trust: Canadian pension fund OMERS is buying Allianz Capital Partners’ 13.5% stake in Interise Trust , increasing its ownership in the Indian road sector infrastructure trust to 34.8%.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

But what’s even more relevant, he says, is that with $88 billion now invested in a province with a GDP of nearly $500 billion, “the Caisse is the pension fund that is the most invested, in the world, in its local economy.” More than ever, Canada’s largest pension funds are being pressed to play the same role in the rest of the country.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2024

billion; €6 billion) in liquidity last year, including roughly C$6 billion from selling direct investments and receiving dividend recapitalisations, and around C$3 billion from selling private equity fund stakes in the secondaries market, head of PE Martin Longchamps tells affiliate title Private Equity International.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 18, 2023

and funds affiliated with Rialto Capital (“Rialto”) today announced that they have entered into a newly formed joint venture with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) and acquired a 20% equity stake for $1.2 As I said above, not surprised in the least about this follow-on investment in Octopus Energy.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

At C$146 billion, equivalent to a quarter of the entire C$575 billion pension fund for some 21 million Canadians and forecast to grow bigger every year, Kim leads a program that is also heading into unchartered territory. Most were on the fund's private equity team and were informed early last month, according to two of the people.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 28, 2024

CPP Investments, the public pension plan’s asset manager, has about $36 billion under management in Latin America, or about 5% of its global portfolio, in sectors from electric utilities and sanitation to real estate, telecoms and logistics. The bigger picture: Scaling new heights.

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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. pension fund, has yet to release its fiscal 2023 results.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Caledonia’s stake in 7IM was valued at £187mn as of March 31. The Canadian fund already has significant investments in the UK. Last year it bought a 25 per cent stake in SSEN Transmission, a division of Scottish energy company SSE, for £1.5bn. It also holds stakes in London City, Bristol and Birmingham airports.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Among individual hedge funds, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. revealed a stake in insurer Chubb Ltd. Tiger Global Management LLC increased its stake in Alphabet Inc. The fund upped its weightings in financial stocks by more than any other industry , while decreasing its weightings in the communications sector.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is for this reason that Canadian pension giant BCI finds itself in a rather enviable position. billion) public pension fund has spent much of the past decade using the secondaries market to cultivate a comparatively liquid portfolio of illiquid assets. billion; €158.2 We were very slow to get into venture capital and growth.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 21, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports that OMERS is writing off its take in troubled British utility Thames Water: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) has written off its entire investment in troubled British utility Thames Water, walking away from a stake once valued at well over $1-billion.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Anyway, let me get on to covering this week in pensions. First, Shahir Gindo wrote a special to the Globe and Mail on why Canadian pensions funds should invest more in domestic assets to boost the economy. I want to confront the topical complaint that pension funds allocate something like 4% of our capital to domestic stocks.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 27, 2023

The full share capital of Premier Lotteries Ireland (PLI), currently majority owned by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan with minority stakes held by An Post, is to be sold to La Francaise des Jeux, pending approval by the lottery regulator. That approval is expected to be delivered some time before the end of 2023.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

The pension fund manager had quietly tried to sell LifeLabs in previous processes and failed to find a buyer, according to two of the sources. Quest also bid, unsuccessfully, for CML at the time, according to one of the sources, who worked on the transaction. CPP Investments will retain a ~2% stake in Visma.

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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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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Here are the top stories covering pensions and investments this week: 1) Jason Markusoff of CBC News reports that Ontario has concerns over Danielle Smith's CPP exit bid, but also a stark lesson for her: It may seem like a pile-on by now to Premier Danielle Smith and the United Conservatives. For more information click here.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

They said, hey, if you're involved, chill the auction and no one wants to bid, and so you can't even show up. I still owe the guys stake if I could find him. Their structures are built by their customers who are the limited partners by and large mostly its pension funds. Which was interesting. David Gardner: Wow.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The fund focuses on real estate secondaries, acquiring stakes in mature funds, providing liquidity to limited partners, and recapitalising existing assets. Source: City Wire If you think we missed any important news, please do not hesitate to contact us at news@pe-insights.com. Can`t stop reading?

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In addition to BMW and Volkswagen AG , Northvolt’s top investors included Goldman Sachs’s asset management arm, Denmark’s biggest pension fund ATP, Baillie Gifford & Co. funds and a number of Swedish entities. Volkswagen is Northvolt’s largest shareholder with a 21 per cent stake and is likely to be nursing similar losses.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Northern Ontario Business also reports Hydro One wins bid to build Wawa-Porcupine transmission line: The province has decided who will build a 260-kilometre transmission line to boost Northern Ontario. Five Nations Energy also supported the Hydro One bid. Boileau said the announcement allows the region to proactively plan.

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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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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

However, it will take time to assess the full impact of the 2021-2023 governance and management changes on the pension fund manager’s organizational performance. Were AIMCo’s pension fund clients consulted, as would normally be required under investment management agreements? Those changes are now in place.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I do think theres a path, he said, adding he believes pension involvement in Canadian airports could start almost immediately with investments in adjacent assets such as parking garages and freight services as well as new developments like sustainable aviation fuel facilities that arent core to the business of an airport.

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