Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Having said this, the stock market is incredibly concentrated in a few names and the risks of something bad hitting us are on the rise here, which is why you should all take these 13F filings with a grain of salt here. Here are some funds worth tracking closely. Below, are a few funds investors track closely.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the seven big tech firms—Apple (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), and Tesla (TSLA)—playing an outsize role in this year’s stock market rally, it’s no surprise to see them featured heavily in the quarterly filings of large investors.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2023

And with the bond yield high enough, that poses competition for equity investors who feel the bond market is less risky than the stock market right now.” In late July, when I openly wondered when will the stock market crash , I wasn't trying to scare people but have seen this movie so many times before, it never ends well.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

In other words there is support for stocks, as many potential buyers wait in the wings for current worries to subside, says LPL’s Smith. Extremes in pessimism in the AAII data are, on average, bullish for near-term stock market returns (and extreme investor optimism tends to be bearish for the near-term outlook).

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Canada’s large pension funds have pulled back on some activities in China. Meanwhile, Chinese authorities are considering relaxing the rules that cap foreign ownership in domestic publicly traded firms, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg last week, seeking to lure global funds back to its $9.4 trillion stock market.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This lack of fairness, transparency, objectivity and the ideology the enshrines the offering up of stock market competitiveness as a sacrificial cow of wokeness is yet another reason why ESG sucks. And if they need to boost their price back up, they can buy back stock. I like to sometimes imagine the stock market is a circle.

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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

And the only reason I can think for why dividends became the key way of returning cash is I went back to the history of markets. Bond markets preceded stock markets. So when stock markets were first open, to attract investors to buy stocks, they had to be disguised as bonds. DAMODARAN: Yeah.

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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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