Pension Pulse

JUNE 5, 2023

Amir Barnea, associate professor of finance at HEC Montréal, wrote a comment for the Toronto Star asking if Canada is cracking down on taxes, why does our national pension plan pay less than two per cent?: When it comes to performance, Canada’s national pension fund rightfully boasts impressive results.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

CDPQ's own public equities portfolio saw its performance "driven by growth stocks, as well as by large positions in Quebec companies, which performed well." The private equity portfolio was affected by interest rate hikes as well as by an increase in financing costs, which affected certain private companies.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Michiel Willams of Net Zero Investor reports OMERS’ sustainability chief on why the C$127bn fund’s green investment spree will not slow down: OMERS, the defined benefit (DB) plan for municipal employees in Ontario, is increasingly positioning itself as one of Canada's greenest pension fund investors. to sell its 24.5%

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 17, 2023

“The renewable energy, telecommunications and transportation sectors, to which (the Caisse) has been exposed for many years, are significant vectors of performance,” the pension fund said. In the first half of 2023, higher financing costs hurt the Caisse’s private-equity portfolio, which posted a return of 1.4

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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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OCTOBER 31, 2023

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I told him I track pension funds very closely and there's no doubt CDPQ is a global leader in sustainable/ responsible investing. The other part that is very important for us and that's where the puck is heading for institutional investors, is the engagement with our portfolio companies.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The statement, sent exclusively to the National Post , marks the first time Poilievre has explicitly addressed the issue of Alberta’s proposal to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and set up its own pension fund. My take: This is a great deal for BCI and Searchlight, a private equity firm BCI seeded.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 14, 2024

ABOUT OPTRUST With net assets of $25 billion, OPTrust invests and manages one of Canada's largest pension funds and administers the OPSEU Pension Plan (including OPTrust Select), a defined benefit plan with over 111,000 members. I then shifted my attention to private debt and asked James if they have a sleeve there.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. You’ve talked about pensions are now facing illiquidity issues because private equity and venture capital have gates up a lot, a lot of long-term tie up. So it, it really has and, and pension funds, they’re on hold today.

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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? 00:08:30 The odd company that went bankrupt would need to get sold. But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. Was the plan when you were going to school in Paris always to go into finance, or were you originally leaning in another direction? And there was no hint at the time that I would be heading into finance. I think it was a great training.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Ellen Quigley , Special Adviser to the Chief Financial Officer (Responsible Investment), University of Cambridge and Senior Research Associate (Climate Risk & Sustainable Finance), Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge. Corporate Finance Briefing: S&P 500 Buybacks & Dividends. 9 December, 2022).

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

KENCEL: “Barbarians at the Gate” and the financing. What most people don’t realize is that that deal had been hanging around as a potential transaction for a long time, and a lot of firms had looked at it, and it had conversations with the company. companies, and had lots of very talented folks that we work with.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

CPP Investments invests in private equity in two ways. The first is via direct investments, where it holds ownership stakes that vary from passive, minority positions, up to 100% control of private companies. The second is through private equity funds run by private equity firms, such as KKR and Blackstone.

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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. How do you go about kicking the tires of a company for three or four or five years?

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Nicolas Van Praet of the Globe and Mail reports pension giant Caisse strikes deal to acquire Innergex Renewable Energy: Canadian pension fund giant Caisse de dpt et placement du Qubec has struck a deal to buy Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. The Caisse will pay $13.75

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: Well, I sort of worked my way up, if you can call it that, to writing their personal finance column, which nobody read, by the way. RITHOLTZ: Now that we have gender parity in finance, thank you. Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. He was a corporate finance person.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 21, 2025

Barbara Shecter of the National Post wrote a comment asking whether the Canadian pension model can survive a new era of politicization: Rachel Reeves, the U.K.s new chancellor of the exchequer, had a goal in mind when she flew to Toronto last August to meet with the heads of some of Canadas largest pension funds.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I do think theres a path, he said, adding he believes pension involvement in Canadian airports could start almost immediately with investments in adjacent assets such as parking garages and freight services as well as new developments like sustainable aviation fuel facilities that arent core to the business of an airport. Im going to do it.'

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