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On CPP Investments' Insanely Large Allocation to Private Equity

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pension fund, has only about 11% of its assets invested in private equity, while Norway’s oil fund, one of the world’s largest wealth funds, has no investments in private equity at all. If I were running a pension fund, I would be very careful about what was being offered to me.

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OMERS to Stop Making Direct Private Equity Investments in Europe

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Gillian Tan, Swetha Gopinath and Layan Odeh of Bloomberg report OMERS to stop making direct private equity investments in Europe: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System will stop making direct private equity investments in Europe as the pension fund overhauls its operations there, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Regulators Demanding More Disclosure From Private Equity and Hedge Funds

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But in a partial victory for fund groups which opposed the rules, the Securities and Exchange Commission did not proceed with proposals that would have expanded funds' legal liability and outright banned arrangements that allow some investors special terms. million Norweigans benefit from the Government Pension Fund.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

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Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. So you end up going from the fund of funds to pension funds. I had a a two brief jobs between the, the fund of funds in Maryland and business school in between there. Absolutely.

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Transcript: Robyn Grew

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RITHOLTZ: And — and to — for a little context, maybe for some of the audience in America who may not be that familiar with Man Group, this isn’t like a startup. So, when you’re describing bespoke strategies, I’m assuming your targeting those future liabilities for each of those — those entities?

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

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I then was doing journalism for Breakingviews, which was the sort of dot-com startup, FX FT people known by Reuters, and started doing some — and then I did some research for Crispin Odey, London hedge fund guy. pension funds engaged in to the tune of hundreds of billions of pounds.

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HOOPP Names Annesley Wallace as its Next CEO

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James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports HOOPP names infrastructure expert Annesley Wallace as its next CEO: The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan has named Annesley Wallace as its next chief executive officer, reaching outside the organization to choose a leader with expertise in infrastructure investing and strategy. billion ($80.2