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This Week in Pensions & Investments: 03-11-2023

Pension Pulse

Michiel Willams of Net Zero Investor reports OMERS’ sustainability chief on why the C$127bn fund’s green investment spree will not slow down: OMERS, the defined benefit (DB) plan for municipal employees in Ontario, is increasingly positioning itself as one of Canada's greenest pension fund investors. to sell its 24.5%

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A Discussion With CDPQ's Marc-André Blanchard on Sustainability, COP28 and More

Pension Pulse

I told him I track pension funds very closely and there's no doubt CDPQ is a global leader in sustainable/ responsible investing. The other part that is very important for us and that's where the puck is heading for institutional investors, is the engagement with our portfolio companies.

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

The Big Picture

Michael Fisch : 00:05:39 [Speaker Changed] Well, in the time that I was working at Goldman Sachs in mergers, there were a bunch of big public companies who were on, we were on m and a retainer, they call it. Did you see like what was the fixed rate world like on the private side when things were dirt cheap? Sold a ton of it.

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Keep your clients far away from ESG investing – it’s a rip-off!

Sara Grillo

ESG also aims to promote supposedly the goal of ESG is to promote the growth of companies that are supportive of beneficial practices, which is debatable and we’re going to get to that. 0:44:46.8 : Or it’s like Florida and Louisiana divesting their pension funds from anything BlackRock-related. Impact investing.