Pension Pulse

MAY 14, 2024

Laura Benitez and Nishant Kumar of Bloomberg report hedge funds draw pension money to riskiest corner of a $1.3 Pension plans and insurers have been piling into funds that invest in equity tranches of collateralized loan obligations in recent months, according to several asset managers who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 13, 2024

He further explained that the bond portfolio is central to HOOPP’s Liability Driven Investing (LDI) strategy, mitigating the Plan's liability sensitivity to interest rate and inflation changes, providing government-guaranteed returns, supporting other investment activities, and diversifying the Fund's assets. billion. “We

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, the federal government recently announced it would stop issuing real return bonds – an important liability matching asset for many defined benefit pensions in Canada. Many Canadian pension must now consider non-Canadian alternatives, such as US TIPS. Investors need be prepared for and accept this added risk.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2024

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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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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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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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

Perhaps most famously you guys put on a CO bet, a collateralized debt obligation bet that was designed to do well if housing made some extreme moves and it was non-directional, it was hedged. So it, it really has and, and pension funds, they’re on hold today. I wanted to talk about a couple of trades from that era.

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