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On CPP Investments' Insanely Large Allocation to Private Equity

Pension Pulse

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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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. Those are the publicly traded asset classes that private credit is most comparable to.

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CDPQ Posts 7.2% Return in 2023

Pension Pulse

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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CDPQ's Head of Liquid Markets Discusses Mid-Year Results

Pension Pulse

“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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OPTrust Returns 5.3% in 2023

Pension Pulse

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. We have held TIPS in the past but it's not a core part of our liability hedging portfolio.

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MSCI (MSCI) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

With the completed acquisition of Burgiss, MSCI can now provide additional clarity and transparency highly needed by investors across private and public assets in their portfolios. Our product lines are increasingly interconnected, which means our work in private assets reinforces our work in climate and vice versa.

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

The Big Picture

And we did talk to a lot of people, but we were grateful to have a college endowment, a a publicly traded insurance company, a publicly traded company, corporations pension fund, and some wealthy individuals join our first fund, which was a mighty $71.4 Now they’re private companies.