Pension Pulse

APRIL 29, 2024

Pine Gate Renewables just announced a $650 million total investment from Generate Capital, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) and HESTA: ASHEVILLE, N.C.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Today, Pine Gate Renewables announced the final closing of a $650 million investment from Generate Capital, the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) and HESTA.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2024

The pension fund had solid returns from its portfolio of public stocks, which gained 10.4 But stocks make up only 19 per cent of the pension fund’s assets after it shifted billions of dollars from equities into government bonds and credit investments, seeking to take advantage of high interest rates. dollar to earn a 4.4-per-cent

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The modest changes at most of the biggest pension funds are a result of compensation philosophies that emphasize long-term performance of the funds, which is typically measured over five-year horizons. Some pension fund CEOs faced small cuts to their paycheques last year. million in 2022. million from $5.6-million

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Freschia Gonzales of Benefits and Pensions Monitor reports CDPQ and Chinook launch platform to invest in Pacific Northwest forestland: CDPQ and Chinook Forest Partners have launched a new investment platform to build a diversified portfolio of forestland in the Pacific Northwest, US.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 5, 2024

Vanderbilt University Endowment, the University of Illinois Foundation and existing investors also participated in the extension to a January funding round, lifting Bilt’s valuation to US$3.25 OTPP, the Canadian pension fund, owns Willow Bridge Property Co., billion from US$3.1 Wells Fargo & Co., Mastercard Inc.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 6, 2023

Her new role includes investment decision-making, management of Fengate’s private equity funds, strategy, operations, and investor relations. Valuable addition Fengate has offices in Ontario and Texas and has over $7 billion of capital commitments under management, focused on infrastructure, private equity, and real estate strategies.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2023

The 77-year-old billionaire told the Financial Times that big asset managers had competed aggressively to lend to the largest private equity groups as money poured into their coffers in 2020 and 2021, raising questions over the due diligence the funds conducted when they agreed to provide multibillion-dollar loans. “The

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Banks in the US will lose $200, $250 billion in office over time here,” Bass, founder of Hayman Capital Management, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV Monday. Borrowers would lose some of their other capital or assets and it would be harder for them to find lenders to help dig them out of the hole. Toronto brought on.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

Ian Bickis of The Canadian Press reports CPP Investments earned 8 per cent in latest fiscal year, net assets rose to $632 billion: Canada's biggest pension fund earned an eight per cent return last year, but significantly underperformed the 19.9 Formed a US$750 million strategic capital partnership with Redwood Trust, Inc.,

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A hedge fund run by Michael Burry — who famously shorted subprime mortgages during the 2008 financial crisis and became a central figure in Michael Lewis’s 2010 book "The Big Short" — added 35,000 shares of Alphabet and 30,000 shares of Amazon. That fund, Scion Capital, also boosted bets on Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com.

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American Investment Council

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Top States & Districts in 2022 – which ranks the country’s top twenty states and Congressional districts by total private equity capital and the number of companies receiving investment in 2022.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

The growth came as the fund earned a 12-month total-fund net return of 4.8 The pension fund, which invests to pay for the retirement for 336,000 working members and pensioners, noted that as of Jan. 1 the plan was fully funded with a $17.5-billion billion funding surplus. per cent and 8.6

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

If you’re interested in venture capital, in technology, in how to think about early stage investing, well, strap yourself in, this is a great one. RITHOLTZ: Is that what led to your transition from entrepreneur to venture capital? WENGER: Well, it’s also important too, how the venture capital model works overall, right?

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Selling and leasing back their towers, along with some that have yet to be constructed, is a way of smoothing out that investment by paying for it in the form of rent rather than capital expenditure. million) to Canadian investment fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec (CDPQ), the telecom company said on Thursday.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 31, 2023

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Alberta pension manager AIMCo reports 4.5-per-cent per-cent gain on its investments in the first half of the year, but the pension fund manager is staying cautious against a backdrop of slow economic activity. reported a 4.5-per-cent

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2023

Markets are on edge ahead of the annual gathering of policy makers at Jackson Hole in Wyoming next week, according to Andrew Hunter, deputy chief US economist at Capital Economics. George Soros, Carl Icahn, Stanley Druckenmiller, Julian Robertson have converted their hedge funds into family offices to manage their own money.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 5, 2023

And AIMCo has just secured access to a new pipeline to generate those loans: When it hired Mr. Scudellari from its larger rival the Public Sector Pension Investment Board in January, the two pension fund managers struck an agreement to jointly fund private loans to companies.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The market in general is looking for direction, and that’s going to come from the Federal Reserve,” said Charles Ashley, portfolio manager at Catalyst Capital Advisors. That's the LTK Capital Management (Leo Thomas Kolivakis) house view and I don't care if you agree or disagree with me, I'm giving you my best trading advice here.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

LTK Capital Management is up huge this year, close to 300%, trouncing elite hedge funds and money managers. The buy ratio was among the highest for securities that had at least 50 position changes, according to Bloomberg’s analysis of 13F filings by 1,099 hedge funds. Hedge funds added a net 13.47 dropped $1.15

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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 20, 2023

The statement, sent exclusively to the National Post , marks the first time Poilievre has explicitly addressed the issue of Alberta’s proposal to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and set up its own pension fund. in a joint transaction with private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners.

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Mr. Money Mustache

AUGUST 22, 2020

Public pension funds have started to “divest” from oil company stocks, and various social issues like human rights, child labor, climate change or corporate corruption have bubbled to the surface at different times. And since capitalism is just an expression of human behavior, the nature of capitalism itself may be starting to change.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Previously Andrew led the Americas Structured Credit and Financials team where he was responsible for investments in sub-investment grade structured credit and debt capital solutions for financial institutions, as well as the intellectual property investment strategy. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

And I looked up to you as “The Big Picture” blog. How important is self-awareness and self-enlightenment in managing capital and risk? You know, if you’re a CIO of a pension fund, you’re always thinking about your employees and your portfolio and the plan sponsors. And so I started practicing writing online.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For those of you who are new to my blog/podcast, my name is Sara. Secondly, The ”bad companies” who are the offenders already have enough capital. They aren’t issuing shares to fund their operations. According to Dr. Quigley, 90% of capital raising happens through the bond market. It’s just exchange of shares.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 6, 2024

Thousands of small business owners are approaching retirement age and looking for ways to exit their firms, presenting an opportunity: Selling to employees is one way to keep capital rooted locally. Blue Wolf Capital declined to comment on the record about the ownership program. When he quit last year, his shares were worth nothing.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Visit www.fcltglobal.org to learn more. # # # About FCLTGlobal FCLTGlobal’s mission is to focus capital on the long term to support a sustainable and prosperous economy. He is currently a PhD candidate at the International School of Management in Paris. It was founded in 2013 as a joint initiative of CPP Investments (led by Mark D.

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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. The charges filed by the U.S. “As and international investors.”

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 5, 2024

IMCO CEO Bert Clark posted a comment on LinkedIn going over the Canadian model and other thoughts from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium: I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Top1000 Funds’ Fiduciary Investors Symposium Toronto 2024. The solution isn’t having pension funds invest more in the existing opportunity set.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And so that’s actually when I started blogging, I started kidding. And I’ve always sort of had a tilt just personality wise towards capital preservation. And I said, well, in my opinion, no one’s protecting my capital here. And so it’s not worth putting capital at work there. That’s right.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: Capital gains then were taxed with 28 percent. Since 2004, the tax rate on dividends and capital gains is 15 percent, 18 percent, 21 percent. The original research actually, the Fama-French paper argued that market capitalization was standing in as a proxy for us, that small companies were riskier than larger companies.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And it appears, at least, in the post-World War II period, they come about every 25 years, the Nifty Fifties, which was a period where institutions and pension funds bought just growth stocks. SCHWARTZ: My girls, when they’re in their 30s, they’re going to be getting their capital. We have the same capital as before.

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