Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

It’s late April, and Emond is appearing at a hearing at Quebec’s National Assembly, where parliamentarians are zeroing in on a perceived dilution of the share of assets the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has invested at home, from 26.1% We must take into account the size of the fund, the size of the Quebec economy.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others.

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The Big Picture

JULY 28, 2023

( A Wealth of Common Sense ) • Family Offices Are Patiently Watching These Asset Classes for Opportunities : Real estate and private debt are among the investments these asset owners are eyeing. ESPN ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Liz Hoffman, Liz Hoffman, the Business and Finance Editor at Semafor.

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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. He also spent 25 years in investment banking at Japanese dealer Nomura Securities, German lender Deutsche Bank AG and U.S.-based billion ($3.72

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan chief investment officer to depart at the end of December: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan chief investment officer Ziad Hindo is leaving the pension fund manager at the end of the year after five years in the role.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2023

LPs include Alberta Investment Management Company (AIMCo), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. LPs include Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Alberta Investment Management Company (AIMCo), and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

I didn’t really know much about the world of finance. Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up. And what I found was it was just a phenomenal training ground for somebody who wants to then go on to invest, especially doing more micro-level analysis. Very different fields.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

A broader worry is that while buyers’ hunger may be back for higher-quality companies, as shown by the uptick in investment-banking activity on Wall Street, the books of PE firms are stuffed with less attractive businesses snapped up at inflated prices. Some investors don’t want firms using such tools to flatter returns.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

Government concern about the pressure on Thames Water’s finances has been growing for several months. The company is still in talks with its shareholders about raising as much as £1 billion in fresh funds following a £500 million injection agreed last year. What happened to Bentley?

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Investors widely expect the Fed to cut rates by at least a quarter-percentage point at the conclusion of its policy meeting later this month, but softening labor market trends have boosted bets that the central bank could go bigger.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

To build on this momentum, we have enhanced our solutions for the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation while developing a new solution for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive or CSRD. It then, of course, links to asset managers, both for those institutional mandates and for mutual funds.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

That’s not the thought process of someone who wants to go into finance. RITHOLTZ: When did it enter your mind that, hey, this finance stuff looks kind of interesting? GREW: So, I got a call and this one was ultimately from a recruiter who’s working for Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, a bond house. RITHOLTZ: Uh-oh.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Were you always thinking about going into finance? What, what was it that made you say, Hey, this finance thing looks like it’s fun and interesting? And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

So, is it, is it safe to say finance was always in the career plans? 00:02:24 [Speaker Changed] Finance and business was always in the career plans. That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell? I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

And so for the longest time, I actually thought that my unconventional background, I wasn’t an Ivy League student, I didn’t train at an investment bank, I wasn’t working for a hedge fund, I started my career as a bank teller. RITHOLTZ: It’s funny that you say the phrase view the world differently.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. So I was really investment banking. What was that experience like? What was your trading career like?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs. I joined, effectively, Deutsche Bank. And there was no hint at the time that I would be heading into finance.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 17, 2023

This is the first large-scale transaction of its kind to be publicly announced, Bank of America’s global head of sustainable finance Karen Fang said in the statement. It “creates a financeable transferability product that will be used to scale the growth of renewable energy,” Fang said.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investment banking. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah. They’re trading. They’re advising clients.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

KENCEL: “Barbarians at the Gate” and the financing. And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That’s kind of unusual these days, you went straight to the Partners Group after you got a Bachelor’s in Finance from Brigham Young University and the Marriott School of Management, and you’ve stayed there your entire career. That seems to be inordinately lengthy compared to the way traditional finance operates.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Northvolt scrambled to keep the financing flowing, but as Germany’s car industry fell deeper into its own crisis, it became clear orders would dry up. billion to finance its new business plan, Carlsson said, telling reporters that “we’ll regret it in 20 years if we’re not driving transition” to clean technologies.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So that, that sort of put Amherst on a different pact because prior to that, our core business model was investment banking, brokerage market making, and underwriting. So we, we do business with most of the sovereign wealth funds, most of the big US national insurers, global insurers, the largest pension funds.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 24, 2024

I think JP Morgan, of course, is the most dominant, but even JP Morgan has competition from Bank of America , Citibank , Goldman Sachs , and investment banks as well. Then there also has been a very strict regulatory environment for banks since the global financial crisis. The capital allocation flexibility of banks.

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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. Miller said in a statement. The charges filed by the U.S.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

KOENIGSBERGER: So I did my study on that, and I got fortunate enough to meet a gentleman who had been the Finance Minister of Peru. And again, I’m Political Science and History major prior to graduate school, so that I actually get experienced in finance. RITHOLTZ: Sure. He’d been the head of Wells Fargo International.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

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 billion from one of our large pension fund clients. We also completed large index deals with two of the world's top investment banks, which Baer will discuss shortly.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And then meld in a little psychology and behavioral finance, and you have what is truly a masterclass by one of the great professors in the world of finance. ASWATH DAMODARAN, KERSCHNER FAMILY CHAIR IN FINANCE EDUCATION, NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: I’m glad to be back. RITHOLTZ: That’ll help finance the purchase.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Amanda White of Top1000funds reports OMERS positions to buy, favouring North America: Only two years into the top investment job at OMERS, Ralph Berg has made his mark, dramatically re-engineering the investment programs, adjusting the geographical focus and getting ready to buy as M&A markets open up. Amanda White reports.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

He’s just charming, as is Jeremy Schwartz is one of the smartest people you meet in finance, just a thoughtful, intelligent person who really understands what value is about, how to find investments that will outperform the broader markets with less risk, less volatility. And they have some fascinating things to say.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This phase will receive federal funding of $3.9-billion million in funding announced in the 2024 budget. High-speed rail is the kind of public-private investment Canada needs to build for the future, she said in a statement, adding that the project will create thousands of well-paying jobs and strengthen our local economies.

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