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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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And you know, incredibly depressed market, super high interest rates.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Private Equity Invested US$206 million to acquire positions in two fund-of-fund vehicles that are invested in buyout, growth buyout and venture funds across a wide range of industries, primarily in the U.S. company developing a closed-loop supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, through an equity funding round.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 13, 2025

The fund, 66% larger than its previous $1.25bn raise in 2022, also surpasses the $1.7bn secured by Kedaara Capital last year. However, India remains a hotspot for private equity activity, drawing global investors eager to capitalise on its expanding stock market and rising private transactions.

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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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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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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: And so it looked like it was really a pretty reasonable reaction to what had been years of undervalue in the stock market. Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. And so, this is a ripe market for them. The death of equities, you remember that cover.

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