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The Private Debt and Commercial Real Estate Crash Nobody Sees?

Pension Pulse

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.

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Keep your clients far away from ESG investing – it’s a rip-off!

Sara Grillo

For those of you who are new to my blog/podcast, my name is Sara. From a Wall Street Journal Article: The environmental, social, and governance funds’ average fee was 0.2% Thanks for reading our blog about the drawbacks of ESG investing. Pension funds, endowments, etc. large-cap stocks had a 0.14% fee on average.

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

DAMODARAN: Or it could be some unique characteristic, pension funds pay no taxes. You have a blog. And you could probably get that dressing in small pieces if you want because when I do my YouTube videos and blog posts, you’re essentially seeing things that will show up as riffs in my class. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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CDPQ Rocked by Major Indian Bribery Scheme

Pension Pulse

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.

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Transcript: Corey Hoffstein on Return Stacking  

The Big Picture

Somehow no one in due diligence ever asked them about any of this. And so that’s actually when I started blogging, I started kidding. And not being able to tell them or show them makes it harder for them to do due diligence to understand how it may have behaved. I’ve never been introduced.

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