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AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall on Shadow Banks and Investing More in Canada

Pension Pulse

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. As a consequence, banks must submit to more stringent regulation.

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AIMCo's CIO Talks Total Portfolio Approach, Private Credit and Risk

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Rather than continuing to plough in capital, the investment team are now thinking more about comparing opportunities across assets and anticipating future trends. Compared with the benchmark, the portfolio underperformed largely due to a strong rally of the leveraged loan indices from the negative return of the previous year.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

If you prefer a more indirect approach, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) allow you to invest in a portfolio of properties without the hassle of direct ownership. Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

If you prefer a more indirect approach, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) allow you to invest in a portfolio of properties without the hassle of direct ownership. Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies.

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CPP Investments' Andrew Edgell on Private Debt's Next Stress Test

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A combination of our scale, certainty of assets, and our long investment horizon make us uniquely positioned as a global investor. That said, on the positive side, if you look across the US high yield and leveraged loan issuer market, we have had eight consecutive quarters of positive, albeit decelerating, revenue and earnings growth.

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World’s Top Pension Funds See the Largest Assets Decline in 20 Years

Pension Pulse

Willis Towers Watson put out a press release stating the world’s top pension funds see the largest assets fall in 20 years: North America now accounts for nearly half of assets in world’s 300 largest pension funds ARLINGTON, Va., increase in the assets of the largest 300 pension funds in the previous year.

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Canadian LPs Selling PE Stakes in Higher-For-Longer Environment

Pension Pulse

This occurs when the value of bonds and shares of publicly listed firms decline, as they did recently, bringing down the total assets of a pension fund. Canadian pension funds are among the largest private equity investors in the world. Denominator effect The first is what’s known as the “denominator effect.”