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Letko and Brosseau Set the Record Straight on Why Pensions Should Invest More in Canada

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Earlier today, I spoke with Peter Letko and Daniel Brosseau of LetkoBrosseau Global Investment Management to set the record straight on where they stand on Canadian pension funds investing more in Canada. It may seem appealing to encourage pension funds to invest more of our combined funds of over $2-trillion in Canada.

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Ivanhoé Cambridge’s Real Estate Binge Heading Towards a Reckoning?

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Over the last decade, the real estate arm of Quebec’s $300 billion pension fund tore through U.S. Assets and liabilities Ivanhoé Cambridge got its start in the 1950s when Montreal grocer Sam Steinberg started buying up local shopping centers. The Caisse pension fund reported a -6.2 In New York, it paid $2.2

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Another UK Pension Disaster in the Making?

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One totemic statistic on this front (and one which — hands up — I’ve thrown around myself) is the fact that DB pension funds have gone from having something like half of their assets in UK equities in the mid-1990s to less than 2% today. But there’s a good reason for this. So if you still have a burning question, email it to me now!

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Is CPP Investments Fueling Canada's Wildfires?

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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?: Repeat after me: Keep your goddamn political views out of our national pension fund.

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A Discussion With Blake Hutcheson and Jonathan Simmons on OMERS' Mid-Year Results

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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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A Conversation With OTPP's CEO on Their Mid-Year Results

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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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OTPP and CDPQ Ink Deal to Co-Own New Zealand's Connexa

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million) to Canadian investment fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec (CDPQ), the telecom company said on Thursday. You'd be hard pressed to find better assets to match long dated liabilities. Alright, that's a wrap, crazy day today, I should write a separate blog on trading markets.

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