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Here's Why 1 Investment Bank Says Blackstone Just Hit a "Major Milestone"

The Motley Fool

The addition to the S&P 500 is a significant accomplishment, since the index is one of the most common benchmarks for measuring the stock market's performance. It should also benefit from increased demand for its stock, as mutual funds and ETFs that track the index need to buy to match the index's allocation.

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The Shift Toward Transition Investing is Accelerating

Pension Pulse

If they invest exclusively in green assets and earn lower returns than the broader stock market benchmark, as was the case in 2023 for environmental, social and governance funds, they’re criticized for underperforming. In private markets, they were a bit better but the lag there will catch up to these assets.

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AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall on The Hedgehog and The Fox

Pension Pulse

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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Top Fund's Activity in Q1 2024

Pension Pulse

Carly Wanna and Carmen Reinicke of Bloomberg report hedge funds pump up exposure to Nvidia, cut AMD: Hedge funds continued to lean into the biggest technology companies leading the way in artificial intelligence as the hype propelled the US stock market higher in the first quarter of the year.

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Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions?

Tucker Advisors

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.

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Top Funds' Activity in Q2 2024

Pension Pulse

pic.twitter.com/XPHihSJ9sJ — Francois Trahan, M²SD (@FrancoisTrahan) August 13, 2024 The market doesn't care about macro until it does and then all hell breaks loose. Of course, I remind my readers that credit markets lead the stock market typically and we have yet to see a credit crisis emerge (yet being the operative word).

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Top Funds' Activity in Q4 2023

Pension Pulse

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.