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. debt mountain because of its implications for interest rates.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2023

And with the bond yield high enough, that poses competition for equity investors who feel the bond market is less risky than the stock market right now.” In late July, when I openly wondered when will the stock market crash , I wasn't trying to scare people but have seen this movie so many times before, it never ends well.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For those of you who are new to my blog/podcast, my name is Sara. This lack of fairness, transparency, objectivity and the ideology the enshrines the offering up of stock market competitiveness as a sacrificial cow of wokeness is yet another reason why ESG sucks. large-cap stocks had a 0.14% fee on average.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports OMERS reports steady gains at mid-year mark in shift to bonds, credit: Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System relied on steady returns from private assets, tailwinds from strong stock markets and a resilient U.S. dollar to earn a 4.4-per-cent per cent on their investments.

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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. That beat the fund’s reference portfolio (an internal benchmark it sets for itself), which had a return of just 0.1

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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. How can I get the benefits of investing for early retirement without contributing to the decline of humanity?”.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

In other words there is support for stocks, as many potential buyers wait in the wings for current worries to subside, says LPL’s Smith. Extremes in pessimism in the AAII data are, on average, bullish for near-term stock market returns (and extreme investor optimism tends to be bearish for the near-term outlook).

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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

APRIL 11, 2023

And the only reason I can think for why dividends became the key way of returning cash is I went back to the history of markets. Bond markets preceded stock markets. So when stock markets were first open, to attract investors to buy stocks, they had to be disguised as bonds. You have a blog.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2025

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Ontario fund manager IMCO earned 9.9% per cent for its clients in 2024, which was the pension fund managers best single-year performance since it was created to consolidate public-sector fund assets in Ontario in 2017. On Wednesday, IMCO reported an average gain of 9.9

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I mean, it’s not the 220 years of stock market data. People think real estate is more stable than the stock market. 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.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 14, 2025

Before I get to that below, end of week I usually go over moves in the US stock market and it was a hell of a week. Any day without a Trump tariff comment is a good day for the market. The market is also rallying on relief that there wont be a government shutdown. What is the 30% rule for Canadian pension funds?

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