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Glencore's Bid For Teck Puts Pressure on Canada's Pension Giants?

Pension Pulse

The previous unreported proposal is an unusual move, but mirrors the broader nationalistic sentiment at display in Canada since the Swiss miner's unsolicited approach for one of the country's top mining firms by market value. The Canadian pension funds have benchmarked their investments to that level, according to the presentation.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And Goldman was the size of a law firm back then.

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CDPQ Rocked by Major Indian Bribery Scheme

Pension Pulse

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. The charges filed by the U.S.