Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Bert also explains the main advantages IMCO and other large Canadian pension funds have, namely, large, stable capital inflows, ability to internalize asset management and use their size to negotiate lower fees, especially in private markets.

Bidding 59

Bidding Pension Funds Assets Banks 59

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

What are the key issues at stake? We brought together over 400 institutions that included hedge funds, asset managers, also included some global regulators and others. Now, I think pro trader could also mean hedge funds and the largest market makers in the world and pension funds and endowments, and sovereign wealth funds.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 100

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Assets Legal Shareholders 100

Pension Pulse

MAY 14, 2024

Laura Benitez and Nishant Kumar of Bloomberg report hedge funds draw pension money to riskiest corner of a $1.3 trillion credit market: A high-stakes trade in the riskiest corner of a $1.3 In Europe, insurers and pension funds are restrained by regulations on how much they can allocate to these higher risk strategies.

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Collateral Funds Hedge Funds 59

Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Adam Clark of Barron's reports Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia—what tech stocks hedge funds are buying and selling: It’s filing season for a string of major hedge funds, and big tech names like Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia were among the most-traded equities in the third quarter. Appaloosa increased its Amazon stake to 3.75

Hedge Funds 59

Hedge Funds Funds Asset Management Stakes 59

Pension Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2024

High profile investment funds including Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office, David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management, Soros Capital and Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital all cut their stakes in Nvidia in the second quarter, the filings show. percent to its recently disclosed stake in insurance giant Chubb.

Hedge Funds 59

Hedge Funds Funds Asset Management Stakes 59

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. MIAN: In 2015, Carl Icahn sold all his Netflix stake because it was too expensive.

Banks 52

Banks Hedge Funds Debt Legal 52

Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

David Hollerith of Yahoo Finance reports Amazon, Alphabet, and Nvidia attract new interest from Wall Street's biggest investors: Some of Wall Street’s biggest investors made new bets on technology giants in the fourth quarter, loading up on stakes in Amazon ( AMZN ), Alphabet ( GOOG , GOOGL ), Alibaba ( BABA ), and Nvidia ( NVDA ).

Hedge Funds 59

Hedge Funds Funds Asset Management Assets 59

Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The rally also severely hit a number of quantitative hedge funds in China, people familiar with the matter said. A lot of hedge funds were betting big on these measures, including David Tepper's Appaloosa Management. for his Alibaba stake. billion Appaloosa fund. Shares of Alibaba hit $105.25

Hedge Funds 99

Hedge Funds Banks Stakes Asset Management 99

Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Carly Wanna and Carmen Reinicke of Bloomberg report hedge funds pump up exposure to Nvidia, cut AMD: Hedge funds continued to lean into the biggest technology companies leading the way in artificial intelligence as the hype propelled the US stock market higher in the first quarter of the year. and Microsoft Corp.

Hedge Funds 59

Hedge Funds Funds Asset Management Pension Funds 59

Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

Remember this data is lagged by 45-days so it's not representative of what they hold now and many top hedge funds are going to get clobbered when the financial storm hits their portfolio. LTK Capital Management is up huge this year, close to 300%, trouncing elite hedge funds and money managers. I can go on and on and on!!

Hedge Funds 52

Hedge Funds Funds Asset Management Assets 52

Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jennifer L of Carbon Credits reports Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan buys majority stake in KKR’s Australian carbon project developer: A Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) has agreed to acquire KKR’s stake in a leading Australian carbon markets platform GreenCollar.

Stakes 59

Stakes Pension Funds Shareholders Assets 59

Pension Pulse

JULY 18, 2024

Three of the largest have boosted their targets this year, including California Public Employees’ Retirement System, California State Teachers’ Retirement System and New York City’s pension funds. Texas Teachers is a well-known US state pension fund that has a sizable allocation to alternatives including hedge funds.

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Hedge Funds Buyout Private Equity Firms 59

Pension Pulse

AUGUST 14, 2024

I told Vincent that 22 years ago, I was working in Mario Therrien's team, in charge of managing a significant directional hedge fund portfolio made up of top global macro funds, L/S Equity, CTAs and a few short sellers and one or two fund of funds (I had a lot of work to fix that portfolio after inheriting it).

Hedge Funds 59

Hedge Funds Assets Pension Funds Portfolios 59

The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

And whilst we were dealing with the same counterparty, the same pension fund, some of their constituents, some of the underlying boards, disagree on the approach to take there. And so at times it’s effectively when the essential is at stake that people can react constructively.

Banks 59

Banks Asset Management Assets Capital 59

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. For example, under Willoughby’s leadership, APFC put $500 million to work in Dyal’s first GP stakes fund.

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Hedge Funds Buyout Due Diligence 59

Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

And to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if similar bribing schemes are also occurring at other CDPQ subsidiaries in India and at those of other large Canadian pension funds. He had greased pension fund managers in Laval and Sherbrooke to invest in his fund of funds (it wasn't even that) and I wasn't shocked when his firm collapsed.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 59

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Pension Funds Conglomerates Legal 59

Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

Shannon Rebolledo staked out the parking lot as JBS left and PSSI came in. No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. I used to invest in top global hedge funds back in the day and I trusted nobody. What went wrong here? How can this happen? Where did oversight fail?

Due Diligence 52

Due Diligence Education Pension Funds Mutual Funds 52

Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Ontario fund’s strategy was innovative at the time, and paved the way for what is now known as the Canadian pension model. If the pension fund falls short, municipalities across the state could be forced to increase payments and cut city services to meet the pension obligations of more than two million Californians.

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Hedge Funds Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms 59

Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Ziply is currently owned by a group of private equity funds led by Searchlight Capital, and to fund its purchase, Montreal-based BCE will use $4.2-billion per-cent stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, the owner of Toronto’s professional hockey, basketball, soccer and football teams. More on that below.

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Debt Stakes Assets 59

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. Most were on the fund's private equity team and were informed early last month, according to two of the people.

Portfolios 69

Portfolios Pension Funds Due Diligence Investing 69

Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

BCI is a pension fund for unionized employees and government employees in British Columbia and Western Canada, with gross assets under management of $250 billion. First, nobody is paid to go with smaller less well-known managers, The first job any pension fund manager has is to manage career risk. A few quick points here.

Pension Funds 45

Pension Funds Fee Structure Private Equity Managers Assets 45

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%

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Investing Hedge Funds Assets 59

Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

In private credit, tightening credit conditions resulting from a handful of bank failures and rescues in the United States have opened up opportunities for non-bank players like pension funds, he said. So we kind of had headwinds and tailwinds in the portfolio, which is the point of diversification,” Graham said. per cent return.

Investing 52

Investing Stakes Pension Funds Assets 52

The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

Hedge Funds 69

Hedge Funds Finance Financing Funds 69

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.

Banks 130

Banks Capital Assets Mergers and Acquisitions 130

Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

Different from public equity, where investors buy a stake in a publicly listed company, private equity refers to the private ownership of non-listed firms or of those that were once public and have been since taken private. A third concern deals with private equity fund valuation. CPP Investments invests in private equity in two ways.

Pension Funds 88

Pension Funds Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Investing 88

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. per cent stake in the company. The charges filed by the U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 59

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Pension Funds New York Stock Exchange Stock Exchanges 59

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. The solution isn’t having pension funds invest more in the existing opportunity set.

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Assets Buyout Private Equity Firms 59

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. It's a way to manage another part of the economy and similar to what's happened with our pension funds everywhere. Elliott took a stake in Southwest Airlines earlier this summer.

Investors 130

Investors Banks Pension Funds Accounting 130