Top 1000 Funds

JUNE 6, 2023

For pension funds with large in-house teams that are also navigating the risk and opportunity of sustainable investment, a global head of ESG can play a vital role. Jennifer Coulson, the investor's first global head of ESG, explains why.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 4, 2023

Investors in NPV ESG include KLP, a German occupational pension fund, and a large Nordic pension fund. NPV ESG expects to secure commitments from additional investors in its second close later this year, with several investors currently active in due diligence.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

At C$146 billion, equivalent to a quarter of the entire C$575 billion pension fund for some 21 million Canadians and forecast to grow bigger every year, Kim leads a program that is also heading into unchartered territory. She notices investors have been putting more money out than they have been getting back.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 2, 2024

Last year, APFC’s staff decreased its private asset allocation from 19 percent to 15 percent, hypothesizing that there were better risk-adjusted returns to be had in asset classes like fixed income and hedge funds. This strategy has also given Frampton’s team the flexibility to get into some incredibly competitive investment funds.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Major funds including Aware Super and Hostplus were investors. But in a partial victory for fund groups which opposed the rules, the Securities and Exchange Commission did not proceed with proposals that would have expanded funds' legal liability and outright banned arrangements that allow some investors special terms.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 3, 2024

Sarah Rundell of Top1000funds reports AIMCo talks total portfolio approach, private credit, and risk: Alberta Investment Management Corporation, AIMCo, the $160 billion asset manager for pensions, endowments and insurance groups in Canada’s western province, is developing a total portfolio approach in private assets.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The IMCO is pursuing private asset investments exclusively through collaboration deals with general partners, she says, adding these arrangements require increased speed and nimbleness on the part of institutional investors. I just worry about people being impatient and saying, ‘It’s not working, let’s change course.’

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mr. Hill will join OMERS in September, the public pension fund announced Wednesday, and report to Ralph Berg, who took over as the chief investment officer in April. The fact that other large Canadian pension funds keep poaching talent away from CPP Investments tells you how much talent there is there. and Hootsuite Inc.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

As an investor, you not only provide financial support but also offer guidance and expertise to help these companies thrive. Private equity investments offer investors the potential for substantial returns, but they also involve higher levels of risk and require longer-term commitments compared to more traditional investments.

Hedge Funds 52

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

As an investor, you not only provide financial support but also offer guidance and expertise to help these companies thrive. Private equity investments offer investors the potential for substantial returns, but they also involve higher levels of risk and require longer-term commitments compared to more traditional investments.

Hedge Funds 52

Hedge Funds Due Diligence Portfolios Leveraged Buyouts 52

Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Teachers' invests in portable battery company aiming to replace gas-powered generators: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading a US$95-million funding round for Instagrid GmbH, a German maker of portable battery systems designed to replace gas-powered generators.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2023

The 77-year-old billionaire told the Financial Times that big asset managers had competed aggressively to lend to the largest private equity groups as money poured into their coffers in 2020 and 2021, raising questions over the due diligence the funds conducted when they agreed to provide multibillion-dollar loans.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

Blackstone told us "extensive pre-investment due diligence showed PSSI had industry-leading hiring compliance." But it seems, that diligence failed to find what was obvious to investigators watching a shift change in a parking lot. No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 21, 2024

We are thrilled that UPP shares our focus on investing in energy infrastructure that helps support the net-zero transition and are very pleased to welcome them as a co-investor in Rowan, and to our broader infrastructure platform,” said John Lucas, Managing Director and North America regional lead for Quinbrook.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

Ivanhoé Cambridge provides an excerpt of it on its website : Why must investors integrate carbon pricing into their asset valuation and financial decisions? However, research by the Urban Land Institute shows that only 4 percent of European real estate investors capture or use a shadow pricing model for carbon in their underwriting.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

You be my partner, we’ll set up a private equity firm and the Rosenwald family will be our lead investor and that’s what I wanna do.00:12:49 ’cause Chuck was a very cautious investor. When you are out pitching this to institutional investors in the middle of a giant bull market, let me add inequities.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We’re actually bringing all of our investors to Vienna in just a couple of months, our biggest investors for an investor conference. Today, it is absolutely paramount to your success as an investor. Look, our parents all had pension funds. It’s been primarily pension, historically.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Investor’s Business Daily, February 3, 2022 Ehem. Lastly, markets are competitive and there are certain types of investors who will look at a company with good cash flow selling at a depressed price and buy shares on fundamentals, even if it is a moral offender. 9 February, 2022) Investor’s Business Daily.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

They just revealed what they believe are the ten best stocks for investors to buy right now. Part of the interests for Rule Breaker Investors is Amor was a Wall Street employee for many years, working for a firm before deciding, what if I wrote a novel? and Walmart wasn't one of them! The authors will continue past August.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Silas Brown and Kat Hidalgo of Bloomberg report Florida pension to offload up to $4 billion of private credit: The Florida State Board of Administration is looking to sell a bundle of private credit stakes worth as much as $4 billion in what would be one of the largest deals of its kind, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 12, 2024

My sincere hope is that even more policymakers and investors take meaningful action to ensure that the financial, social, and environmental systems we rely on are healthy, resilient, and sustainable. return but also recognizing we are a long-term investor so we are not going to rest on our laurels.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

My boss, this gentleman I mentioned had been the Finance Minister of Peru was like, I need you to go down to Peru and take a look at the bank, do due diligence, right, 25 years old. And I remember going there with a group of investors in — I think it was June of 1999. I’m like 25 years old. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

Hedge Funds 64

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

So the big long term story with Forstmann Little as investors — and it was a great firm, we were the second biggest firm, but I think we had the highest returns — was, you know, in the ‘80s, it was about kind of any company that looked cheap with a lot of debt. It’s the sovereign funds around the world, in Europe and Asia.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As an investor on their behalf, we actively seek out investment opportunities of the highest quality, that are fortified by trusted partnerships and that offer the potential of significant long-term upside. OMERS will be a financial investor and will not participate in operational decisions of MLSE or any of its teams.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate.

Hedge Funds 59

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And let’s face it, dividends really never made sense as a way of returning cash to equity investors. RITHOLTZ: If you’re a long-term investor, you want to see the capital — DAMODARAN: But, also, if you think about equity as a residual claim, which is the way I think about it, you get whatever is left over.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

officials allege: Senior executives at Quebec’s provincial pension fund manager tried to win contracts by paying Indian officials hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes and interfered with corruption investigations in the United States, American prosecutors allege. investors and misled them, in violation of U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 20, 2025

We are an international investor, we invest all over the world: Whats the right balance in the current climate of looking at other destinations, potentially, to where weve been investing recently? For investors, the huge U.S. For investors, the huge U.S. The pension funds 2024 returns fell short of its internal benchmark of 12.9

Pension Funds 59

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Managing over $3.5bn in assets, the pension fund is conducting due diligence on private credit fund managers and assessing their capital deployment strategies, Reese told Bloomberg Television. Reese noted in a separate interview with Bloomberg News that the funds exposure to China remains immaterial.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

But most fascinating of all, he is one of those rare quants who has the ability to take complex, sophisticated, quantitative topics and make them very understandable for the average investor. Somehow no one in due diligence ever asked them about any of this. I’ve never been introduced. No one knew who I was.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 12, 2025

Still, the fund remains heavily connected to Canada and its economic fortunes. More than $60 billion of HOOPPs assets 50 per cent are invested in Canada and the fund is one of the biggest investors in Canadian bonds, with more than $40 billion in total government bond holdings at the end of December.

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