Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

But what’s even more relevant, he says, is that with $88 billion now invested in a province with a GDP of nearly $500 billion, “the Caisse is the pension fund that is the most invested, in the world, in its local economy.” More than ever, Canada’s largest pension funds are being pressed to play the same role in the rest of the country.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Michael is plugged into the Maple Eight, obviously knows Charles Emond very well and he knows he can pitch this idea to Canada's mighty pension funds or go to public markets to sell green bonds.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“The federal government believes that continued domestic investments by Canada’s pension funds have the potential to boost Canada’s economy and create good careers for people across the country.” The statement said government would work with pensions to find and encourage more investments in Canada.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 4, 2024

The challenge is to convince the funds’ members that buying brown is part of a credible transition plan. It may also be difficult to transition a brown firm into a green one if the investor’s stake in the firm is small and the firm hasn’t established a transition plan.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

The growth came as the fund earned a 12-month total-fund net return of 4.8 The pension fund, which invests to pay for the retirement for 336,000 working members and pensioners, noted that as of Jan. 1 the plan was fully funded with a $17.5-billion billion funding surplus. per cent and 8.6

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2021, Australias Telstra sold a 49% stake in its towers for A$2.1b (NZ$2.3b). Adwitiya Srivastava of Reuters also reports Spark New Zealand to sell stake in mobile towers business to Canada's CDPQ for $182 million: Spark New Zealand will sell its remaining 17% stake in mobile towers firm Connexa for NZ$314 million ($181.77

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Regarding the pension fund's bond assets, CDPQ said the fixed income market was characterized by higher yields and the narrowing of corporate credit spreads. In equity markets, Canada’s second-largest pension fund benefited from its high exposure to the technology sector with a 17.7 and down 0.2% in Canada," CDPQ added.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Setting asset mix is a judgment-based exercise and needs to consider potential liability matching objectives, liquidity considerations, risk tolerance, areas of comparative investment advantage, and an investor’s world view. We continue to recommend growth-oriented portfolios to clients with the right risk tolerance and liabilities.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 6, 2024

Palash Gosh reports OMERS pension fund returns 4.6% The pension fund did not provide benchmark returns. The pension fund manager’s results were buoyed by strong gains from stocks and bonds, but its real estate portfolio lost 7.2 in 2023, an annualized 8% for the three-year period and an annualized 7.3%

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 14, 2024

However, this performance did not offset the decrease in value resulting from the portfolio’s strong sensitivity to rates, which reflects the need to match depositors’ long-term liabilities. The overallocation we had in private equity is very similar to all the other pension funds. It's basically the denominator effect.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Next, a top Canadian pension fund manages billions of dollars in investments. So, do you think this is really table stakes now? Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. It's aiming to double its portfolio size. Is it something else?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 13, 2025

Jameson Berkow of the Globe and Mail reports PSP Investments buys stake in Ontarios 407 highway, the pension funds largest Canadian investment: Public Sector Pension Investment Board is making its largest-ever investment in Canada with a multibillion-dollar deal to acquire a piece of Ontarios 407 ETR toll road.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Anyway, let me get on to covering this week in pensions. First, Shahir Gindo wrote a special to the Globe and Mail on why Canadian pensions funds should invest more in domestic assets to boost the economy. I want to confront the topical complaint that pension funds allocate something like 4% of our capital to domestic stocks.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 28, 2023

Patrick DeRochie, senior manager of Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health , wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail, stating Canada is burning, so why is our national pension fund still heavily into fossil fuels?: CPPIB owns 43.5 per cent of Ireland’s largest offshore gas field , 98 per cent of one of the largest U.S.

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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. And we have no insurance liabilities.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

The firm itself could not be in a stronger position with minimal net debt and no insurance liabilities, allowing us to distribute $4.7 In addition to insurance clients, pension funds and other LPs see the value we're creating in private credit, and there's been a strong response to our product offerings.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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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.

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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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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

So you can have a 5% fed funds rate and the consumer is not stopping. At the same time, if you look at corporates, they extended their maturities for their liabilities from five years to seven years. MIAN: In 2015, Carl Icahn sold all his Netflix stake because it was too expensive. That’s pretty significant. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

But I also learned along the way that you rarely die, I mean as a company, from your P&L or from your assets, but you always die from your liabilities. Coming back to my comment, again, it’s your liability side. And so at times it’s effectively when the essential is at stake that people can react constructively.

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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. At IMCO, we have 8 clients with very different liabilities.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

return for 2024, sees economic uncertainty ahead: The CEO of Quebecs public pension fund manager said he is counting on its diverse portfolio to help it navigate increasing economic uncertainty as he announced investment returns of nearly $40 billion in 2024. The pension fund manager expects to reach C$100 billion in 2026 as planned.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 20, 2025

The pension funds 2024 returns fell short of its internal benchmark of 12.9 In 2024, the pension funds publicly-traded stocks gained 23.2 billion of investment income the pension fund earned last year - roughly $7-billion - came from currency gains as the gap widened between the U.S.

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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 Mr. Hope speculated that Boralex Inc.,

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2025

We've achieved these results while remaining true to our capital like brand-heavy open architecture model designed to serve a multitude of insurance clients without taking on any liabilities. Our real estate credit high-yield drawdown funds appreciated 4.4% And our GP Stakes business appreciated 4.1% billion valuation.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 18, 2025

After creating Borealis Infrastructure in 1999, initial investments were made in modest amounts of $5 million to $30 million per project, but the pension funds appetite for such opportunities grew. OMERS later acquired an additional stake to become the majority owner in 2014.) OMERS, together with TransCanada Corp.,

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2025

Or do you also imply monetize the facility I look to take capital out of it in some way with a potential insurance pension fund? We're not contemplating bringing in a pension fund or anything like that to sell down our position there. When you talk monetize, do you mean monetize the resource that you have?

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