Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

NAV lenders sometimes charge interest in the mid to high teens, and some borrowers have used holiday homes, art and cars as collateral. One senior pension fund executive says they try to avoid managers who use NAV as they view it as firms being lazy about exits, adding that they’d prefer to crystallize losses than get distributions this way.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 16, 2024

A higher cost of debt and slower economic growth have created a tough investing environment, pushing down the value of some private assets that pension funds own. Private credit has been one of the best-performing asset classes for some large pension funds in recent years, often earning double-digit percentage gains.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

When we’re talking about a structure of a financing and their senior mezzanine and junk, essentially, that’s the payout order in the event of a bankruptcy. And one thing I tried to say is that private equity has evolved from a form of finance into a form of business. I’ve been in private equity for 40 years now.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

And he said, “Well, it has to be this and that “and it has to be collateralized with a letter of credit.” Public pension funds that manage hundreds of billion dollars can be manned by professionals that make $80 to $150,000 a year. ” And I was like, “What?” SEIDES: Yeah. Last two questions.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 13, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg also reports real-return bonds reap gains for HOOPP: Canadian inflation-protected securities known as real-return bonds are reaping gains for one of the country’s largest pension funds during a turbulent period for fixed-income markets. The pension fund manager’s total assets increased to $112.6-billion,

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: Well, I sort of worked my way up, if you can call it that, to writing their personal finance column, which nobody read, by the way. RITHOLTZ: Now that we have gender parity in finance, thank you. MORGENSON: It can be collateralized loan obligations, now it’s big private debt. RITHOLTZ: At Vogue, though.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What is the communication like back and forth between the New York Fed and major players in finance, especially in the midst of a crisis like that? ’cause L-I-B-O-R was probably the most important number, certainly in credit, maybe in all of finance. You need to come up with more collateral. I’m sorry.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Executive announcements Manroop Jhooty was appointed Senior Managing Director & Head of Total Fund Management. Completed a multi-year forward flow agreement with Exeter Finance LLC, a U.S. indirect auto finance company, to acquire up to US$200 million per year in residual certificates of auto loan receivables securitizations.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

You get a, a BS in computer science from Cornell, a master’s in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon. Or you can go to the bank and get a mortgage, put $200,000 down, get an $800,000 mortgage, you’re gonna get the return of the house minus whatever the cost of financing is. Corey Hoffstein : Absolutely not really.

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