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CDPQ Struggling to Deploy $7 Billion For Energy Transition?

Pension Pulse

Ishika Mookerjee and Sheryl Tian Tong Lee of Bloomberg report Quebec pension struggles to deploy $7 billion for energy transition: One of Canada’s biggest pension funds says it hasn’t been able to deploy the CAD 10 billion ($7.3 Listen to her comments on sustainable finance at the end.

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AIMCo's CIO Talks Total Portfolio Approach, Private Credit and Risk

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“The investment horizon for these assets is long and the ability to rebalance in the future is hampered,” warns Marlene Puffer, who joined AIMCo as CIO in 2023 from Canada’s railway pension fund CN Investment Division. The size of the asset-based finance market is about $5 trillion to $10 trillion, he said.

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On Why BlackRock Wants To Be Blackstone Again With a Twist of Crypto

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Marrying the proprietary origination and business improvement capabilities of GIP and BlackRock’s global corporate and sovereign relationships provides a platform for diversified, large-scale sourcing to support deal flow and co-investment opportunities for clients. So why did BlackRock acquire GIP? Deficits matter,” Fink said.

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A Conversation With OTPP's CEO on Their Mid-Year Results

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The growth came as the fund earned a 12-month total-fund net return of 4.8 The pension fund, which invests to pay for the retirement for 336,000 working members and pensioners, noted that as of Jan. 1 the plan was fully funded with a $17.5-billion billion funding surplus. per cent and 8.6

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Bain Capital’s Harrington Takeover: OHA and BMO Pave the Way with $1bn Financing

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Oak Hill Advisors (“OHA”) served as a Lead Arranger for the unitranche financing to fund Bain Capital Private Equity’s (“Bain Capital”) acquisition of Harrington Industrial Plastics (“Harrington”) from Nautic Partners. OHA is the private markets platform of T.

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CPP Investments Aims to Double Credit Holdings Over Next Five Years

Pension Pulse

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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CalPERS CIO Nicole Musicco on Bloomberg Wealth

Pension Pulse

A month ago, Eliyahu Kamisher of the Los Angels Times reported that CalPERS pension fund posts 5.8% gain in its latest fiscal year as the stock market rally and private debt buoyed the largest traditional public pension fund in the United States. pension fund, has yet to release its fiscal 2023 results.