Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2024

Moving into 2023, he set a goal of reducing the pension’s PE allocation to 18 percent within three years, primarily by selling companies and exiting fund stakes via the secondaries market. These professionals had been trained to spot top private companies and PE funds, rather than to sell their investments.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 7, 2023

They’re talking about asset management firms, in which public pension funds often have investments, supporting shareholder proposals meant to achieve social justice or climate objectives yet of dubious financial value. Let me begin by stating the only thing I can't stand more than left-wing drivel is right-wing drivel.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

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. Its largest shareholder is Canadian pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers), which holds a nearly 32 per cent stake.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

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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 per cent. “In

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I told him he acts like the ambassador of CDPQ to the outside world and in his role as Head of CDPQ Global and Global Head of Sustainability he meets with many different stakeholders across the private and public sector. He told me he tries to leverage the institution to form solid partnerships and add meaningful value.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

00:05:21 [Speaker Changed] No income taxes for the company and, and 00:05:23 [Speaker Changed] Then Koch Industries, I I, I don’t think a lot of people realize one of the largest private companies in the United States and maybe even the largest, they’re, they’re giant energy powerhouse. Oh, really?

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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. CHABRAN: Maybe because I come from a leverage finance background, as I told you, I tend always to focus on the downside. I think it was a great training. I think we learned a lot. How do you look at those?

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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

JANUARY 15, 2025

Ted Seides : Hedge funds often are quarterly liquidity, depending on the underlying. You get into a private equity or venture capital fund, now you’re generally talking about 10 to 15 years. Barry Ritholtz : Because you have to wait for that private company to have some liquidity event to free up the cash.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

So it used to be within private markets that you would find a good business, apply quite a bit of leverage to it, at least in the private equity business, and be able to make a pretty good return by buying good solid businesses as they are. Leverage levels have come down materially. LAYTON: Leverage levels have changed.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So the theory was that’s great that you’re providing a loan, but if you can co-invest with them and get the upside of partnering with some of the most successful private equity funds in the United States, you know, a great way to enhance your returns. KENCEL: So, now, leverage is lower. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada Pension Plan Investment Board joins startup at $100 million Reforestation Fund: Canada’s largest pension fund has joined a project to produce carbon credits by planting more than 100 native tree species on degraded land in Brazil’s Amazon region.

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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

I think that private equity sees this as an opportunity, because they’re not really growing the institutional aspect of their business. Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. MORGENSON: Well, these are private companies, not the firms themselves.

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