Pension Pulse

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) is just one of the numerous pension fund and major ILS investors we track in our directories here. First, read my comment covering HOOPP's 2022 results where the plan remains fully funded despite losing 8.6%

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

another Canadian pensions giant, told Bloomberg recently. A key challenge for regulators is that much of PE’s borrowing was arranged with loose legal terms at a time when lenders were fighting for deals, making it easier today to use financial wizardry to keep sickly businesses alive.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

With nearly half a trillion dollars of assets under management supporting defined benefit and defined contribution plans, PGIM is a market leader, servicing more than half of the world's 300 largest pension funds, including over two-thirds of the largest 100 U.S. pension plans, and is the largest pension fund manager in Japan.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 7, 2023

They’re talking about asset management firms, in which public pension funds often have investments, supporting shareholder proposals meant to achieve social justice or climate objectives yet of dubious financial value. Nor is it supported by the empirical evidence.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

the ability to leverage centralized risk, legal, HR, IT, back and middle office capabilities), relevant sectoral expertise, the ability to leverage scale (e.g., Even in jurisdictions where hedging is more feasible, hedging currency requires access to liquidity to post as collateral.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Which is run by many insurance companies, pension funds who use Aladdin, and it’s a commercial enterprise for the firm. Didn’t it start as a bond shop, catering to pension funds and foundations? I mean, it started as largely mortgages, fixed income bonds shop, and you know, create a closed end funds.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

Yes, I did some legal stuff and rank stuff but I, you know, I went in on the weekends when we did the stock certificate count. And I was thrown at a, okay, we now need to know what have we got in Russia, what’s our exposure, what are our legal contracts, how does this work? Let’s do that then. And I bounced around. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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