The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

In fact, virtually all of our drawdown funds we've launched in our history, have been profitable for our investors. Our performance has helped secure retirees' pensions, fund students educations, pay healthcare benefits, and protect and grow the savings of individual investors. So, I think cap rates have leveled off as well.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So I went from being a publishing high yield research analyst to a distressed debt analyst and investor. SALISBURY: Generally, it’s asset liability mismatches that causes bank failures, but it also causes, in some cases, hedge fund failures and other financial institutions to fail. RITHOLTZ: For sure.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Our job was basically to give sort of strategic advice to Lazard clients, which would generate capital-raising mergers and debt financing. pension funds engaged in to the tune of hundreds of billions of pounds. CHANCELLOR: Their debt, foreign debt was 10 times GDP. And the foreign debt was defaulted on.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The governance at all of Canada's Maple Eight pension funds is a hundred times better than it was back in the great financial crisis (GFC) and that includes CDPQ. Debt has exploded everywhere, and now that interest rates have moved higher, every shock to the economy is magnified as it interacts with debt.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Second-Quarter Investment Highlights Credit Investments Invested €20 million into a syndicated credit-linked note with Banco Santander, a leading Spanish financial institution, for a diversified portfolio of small and medium-sized enterprise loans. Invested US$150 million in Cornerstone OnDemand’s incremental first-lien term loan.

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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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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. Lack of liquidity kills financial institutions. We err on the side of conservatism.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In addition to BMW and Volkswagen AG , Northvolt’s top investors included Goldman Sachs’s asset management arm, Denmark’s biggest pension fund ATP, Baillie Gifford & Co. funds and a number of Swedish entities. What a mess, Northvolt's collapse has hit many investors, including Canadian pension funds.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Daniel Johnson of Bloomberg reports fall economic statement: Ottawa seeks to lower pension fund investments caps: The federal government announced a move to ease limits for pension funds investing in Canadian companies in its latest fiscal update, along with responses to tariff threats from the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

billion from one of our large pension fund clients. Our interest expense guidance assumes our current debt levels and does not assume additional financing. Last month, for example, one of our large asset manager clients launched a new ETF linked to an MSCI climate index with a record-breaking ceded investment of $2.4

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

00:16:44 [Speaker Changed] And, and, and for those people who may not be familiar with the London Interbank offered rate offered rate literally was a survey where they call up various bond debts and say, so what are you charging for an overnight loan? We’re the international arm of the Fed. The work has been expanding.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

First of all, in the US, we have about $5 trillion already in public pension funds, which is like a sovereign wealth fund. We have the US dollar, which is in some ways, the greatest sovereign wealth fund you could possibly have, being the reserve currency, being able to value our debt in our own currency.

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