The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

Owning a portfolio of mortgage securities, as AGNC does, is more like running a mutual fund. However, it is what a lot of large institutional investors do, like pension funds and insurance companies. The big problem is that the mortgage securities AGNC Investment owns trade all day.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In some ways, a mortgage REIT is more like a mutual fund than a company. While that might include some small investors, AGNC is really most appropriate for large investors like pension funds and insurance companies. The proof is in the dividend The truth is that AGNC Investment really isn't made for an investor like me.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Blackstone's unique investment business Blackstone manages investments for big money managers, including pension funds and institutional investors, and its $1 trillion in AUM makes it one of the largest asset managers in the world. Here's why this news is a big deal. What sets Blackstone apart from competitors is its investing style.

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American Investment Council

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Read the full editorial below: Private Fund Investors Don’t Need the SEC’s Help By The Editorial Board September 28, 2023 If a teacher, electrician or autoworker buys a stock or a share in a mutual fund, the Securities and Exchange Commission aims to ensure they’re investing on a level playing field.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

active fixed income mutual funds. A number of significant whole portfolio institutional mandates funded in the quarter, and we continue to be chosen for large global solutions. Last month, we were selected as a fiduciary manager for a $30 billion Dutch pension fund with more than 30,000 members.

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Tucker Advisors

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

And as James McWhinney at Investopedia writes, that’s far from a certain outcome: “After the money hits the account, it’s up to the employee to choose how it’s invested—typically from a menu of mutual funds—and the vagaries of the stock market to determine the ultimate outcome. Maybe the markets will go up, and maybe they won’t.”.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

With nearly half a trillion dollars of assets under management supporting defined benefit and defined contribution plans, PGIM is a market leader, servicing more than half of the world's 300 largest pension funds, including over two-thirds of the largest 100 U.S. pension plans, and is the largest pension fund manager in Japan.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

It ranges from asset owners of various different descriptions who require customized benchmarks for their portfolios, and, in turn, those could be very different, depending on the client type, whether it's an insurance company or a pension fund or an endowment.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So what I mean by that is, first, understand the duration of your funding source. Pension funds have quite long-dated capital. So first, understand the duration of that funding source. And then the second is, understand the return requirement of that funding source. That’s what I mean by liabilities.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2023

But we're bringing our expertise to clients in all segments, not just large pension funds or insurers, but also wealth managers and charities and endowments and family offices. And we saw positive fixed income mutual fund flows in the quarter led by our high-yield total return and muni franchises. How do you do that?

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

One key aspect of hedge funds is their ability to implement alternative investment strategies that are not typically available to traditional investment vehicles, such as mutual funds. Hedge funds can invest in a wide range of assets, including stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities and derivatives.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

One key aspect of hedge funds is their ability to implement alternative investment strategies that are not typically available to traditional investment vehicles, such as mutual funds. Hedge funds can invest in a wide range of assets, including stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities and derivatives.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 17, 2024

Denitsa Tsekova of Bloomberg reports a $300 billion pension fund leads big-money charge back to bonds: When Christopher Ailman became the chief investment officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System back in 2000, one of every four dollars it oversaw was invested in government, corporate and mortgage debt.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 4, 2024

In turn, it makes it possible for large investors such as pension funds, endowment funds, mutual funds and insurance providers to share with their thousands of members that their action plans are credible and verifiable. In private markets, they were a bit better but the lag there will catch up to these assets.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Here are some funds worth tracking closely. Below, are a few funds investors track closely. Below, a sample of the funds I track closely: 1) Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMco) 2) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan 3) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 4) Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec 5) OMERS Administration Corp.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2024

Here are some funds worth tracking closely. Below, are a few funds investors track closely. Below, a sample of the funds I track closely: 1) Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMco) 2) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan 3) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 4) Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec 5) OMERS Administration Corp.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Here are some funds worth tracking closely. Below, are a few funds investors track closely. Below, a sample of the funds I track closely: 1) Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMco) 2) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan 3) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 4) Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec 5) OMERS Administration Corp.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Here are some funds worth tracking closely. Below, are a few funds investors track closely. Below, a sample of the funds I track closely: 1) Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMco) 2) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan 3) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 4) Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec 5) OMERS Administration Corp.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

Here are some funds worth tracking closely. Below, are a few funds investors track closely. Below, a sample of the funds I track closely: 1) Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMco) 2) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan 3) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 4) Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec 5) OMERS Administration Corp.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. which sponsors various projects on science and religion, was founded by mutual funds entrepreneur Sir John M. I hope that they have an opportunity to be kids, to go to school and not be tired.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2023

Here are some funds worth tracking closely. Below, are a few funds investors track closely. Below, a sample of the funds I track closely: 1) Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMco) 2) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan 3) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 4) Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec 5) OMERS Administration Corp.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Are most people better off in an index fund than playing with an active manager, be it mutual fund or high fee hedge funds? SEIDES: John Yeah, I said back then, the bet started in 2007 and I say today, being in the market and investing in hedge funds is completely apples and oranges. Was Warren Buffett right?

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

I got here and in those days, there was a HOOPP pension fund and HOOPP Investment Management Limited which ran the assets and they both had a CEO. And HOOPP in particular had room to perform even better than it had been.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Canada’s large pension funds have pulled back on some activities in China. I also want to recognize our peer Maple 8 pension fund managers, many of whom are here today. That’s one key reason large pension funds tend to seek private investments. Earlier this year, British Columbia Investment Management Corp.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

mutual fund industry so far this year, but the same data services that track the industry don't show a proportionate pickup for BlackRock. Ken, I do believe as an industry, the large pension funds that have an overallocation of private equity and the rotation of money in the private equity area has slowed down precipitously.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But for the average person, what’s going to be much more effective is to work on voting and then to pressure pension funds and banks with whom you have a direct relationship, because those are the big blocks of capital that can actually push companies. Pension funds, endowments, etc. BlackRock wants that business.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

And we had 70 products across our ETF and mutual fund ranges with over 1 billion in net inflows. On our client side, the pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, the asset managers, infrastructure is what they want to invest in. The average yield on a mature funds over the last 15 years, annual yields, 8%, OK.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Not only did he stand up a research shop from a dorm room in college and started selling model portfolios to fund managers, but eventually created a suite of first mutual funds. Prohibits you from showing a back test for a mutual fund or an ETF. So, so difference being, you can only trade mutual funds.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I remember it really well because I just finished building this house in West Virginia and we, we were taking occupancy in early August, and it was, it was literally the same day that BMP Paraba shut off redemptions from some of their mutual funds, caused all sorts of chaos in Europe. And so we have them in periodically to talk to.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

My take: I would say the key advantage IMCO and other large Canadian pension funds is certainty of cash flows and access to top private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private debt partners around the world. Leveraging these investment advantages are some of the strategies IMCO uses to enhance returns on behalf of our clients.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: Or it could be some unique characteristic, pension funds pay no taxes. It shows up in mutual funds, where people put their money in a mutual fund. RITHOLTZ: You have to bring something to the table, you have to bring some new insight in order to take some alpha away. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I can’t begin to tell you what it’s like to sit in a room with the Jeremy’s, Professor Jeremy Siegel and I keep calling him Professor Jeremy Schwartz, but he’s just Jeremy Schwartz, chief investment officer of the $75 billion ETF and mutual fund company, WisdomTree. I am just a fan of both of these guys.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

The disagreement between lawmakers comes as some elected officials (mainly Republicans) believe that too much focus on ESG doesn't allow funds to focus on purely financial factors of investing, which could then lead to poor mutual fund performance.

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