Pension Pulse

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Toronto-based pension fund had 17% of its investments in Europe, including the UK, as of the end of 2023. The Toronto-based pension fund, valued at $255.8bn, is seeking new ways to protect its capital after significant investments in the US. That compares with 35% in the US and 35% in Canada.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

Direct Investments Many pension funds and endowments have hit the limit for how much they can allocate to private equity, leaving buyout firms to turn to increasingly sophisticated wealthy families or sovereign funds.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It had received commitments from both existing and new investors that include institutional investors, insurance and pension funds, development finance institutions and family offices across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, it said. Quadria has a hard cap of $1bn for this vehicle. It has raised about $480-$500m so far.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This suggests that institutional investors, including investment banks and pension funds, are scrambling to take part in what could be the biggest IPO of the past couple of years. The report went on to note that the "sheer number of bankers involved. was itself a red flag."

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 3, 2025

The corporate share class was created to broaden the appeal to larger investors, such as pension funds, which may not have been allowed to own partnerships. However, Brookfield Renewable is still a business, and investors need to think about its future prospects in the energy sector, too.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Institutional investors include large organizations such as investment firms, insurers, and pension funds. However, I think each Magnificent Seven stock has solid long-term prospects. But there are some big fish whose moves can significantly impact a stock's momentum. Should you invest $1,000 in Apple right now?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

He started Ample Hills Creamery four years ago with his wife, Jackie Cuscuna, after turning a home ice cream making hobby into a reality with a cart at Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park. I'm always struck when I visit their two main locations in Gowanus and Prospect Heights how much sheer human joy is being created.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 12, 2024

Former Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt also wanted to build a Canadian-style pensions model in Britain, but progress had been slow. Reeves has announced a review, overseen by the new pensions minister Emma Reynolds, to look into how to achieve scheme consolidation and put pension funds to use in promoting UK growth.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 1, 2024

pension fund manager sells $1-billion of private equity holdings to French buyout firm Ardian: British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is selling more than US$1-billion of stakes in private equity funds to French buyout firm Ardian SAS, tapping the secondaries market for private assets to free up cash for new investments.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 8, 2024

Josephine Cumbo of the Financial Times reports pension fund slashes value of its Thames Water stake by almost two-thirds: One of the biggest investors in Thames Water has slashed the value of its stake by nearly two-thirds, intensifying doubts over the financial health of the UK’s largest water distributor.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This occurs when the value of bonds and shares of publicly listed firms decline, as they did recently, bringing down the total assets of a pension fund. Canadian pension funds are among the largest private equity investors in the world. Denominator effect The first is what’s known as the “denominator effect.”

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 8, 2024

CPP Investments, a C$646bn (€428bn) Canadian pension fund with C$45.5bn in real estate assets, has been searching for a replacement for a new global head of real estate after the departure of Peter Ballon earlier this year.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 15, 2025

billion portfolio of European warehouses to AustralianSuper, forming a joint venture with Australias largest pension fund manager to help ramp up its exposure to logistics and industrial properties. James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Oxford Properties sells 50% stake in $1.2-billion

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Third, Don Braid of the Calgary Herald writes Canada Pension Plan says flat 'NO!' to Alberta claim on half of CPP assets: Without a gun, a mask and a note to the teller, there’s no way one province can demand half the national pension fund and hope to escape with the loot.

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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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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

trillion of assets under management supporting defined benefit and defined contribution plans, PGIM serves more than half of the world's 300 largest pension funds. As a market leader with nearly $0.5 Our cash and liquid assets were $4.3

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Pension Pulse

JULY 31, 2024

But when all is said and done that's $8 billion going to Quebec investment managers instead of going to the best private equity or global investment managers including elite global hedge funds. Alright, those are my thoughts on this topic, if you have anything to add, you know where to find me.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 18, 2024

The government has stonewalled Postmedia’s repeated efforts to secure the results of the pension engagement survey, though other polling data and public feedback to the government indicates leaving the CPP is a largely unpopular prospect to Albertans. Can we improve their governance?

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 28, 2024

CPP Investments, the public pension plan’s asset manager, has about $36 billion under management in Latin America, or about 5% of its global portfolio, in sectors from electric utilities and sanitation to real estate, telecoms and logistics. The bigger picture: Scaling new heights.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This suggests that the long-term prospects of pensioners are at risk, taking into consideration the ageing population coupled with increasing life expectancies and falling fertility rates. Therein lies the problem and irony, we have amazing pension funds but we can't cover everyone properly.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

To clear a path for a potential initial public offering that could come as early as 2026, prospective advisers have suggested pushing this debt up into the holding company or getting cash from a pre-IPO investor, the same people say. They took on heavy debts when buying TK Elevator including a roughly €2 billion ($2.1

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The best way I can describe it to ordinary investors is let's say you buy a stock at a decent price and it doubles, but you still love the company and its long-term prospects. Learn more about how CPP Investments has been recognized among leading global pension funds. With a 10-year annualized rate of return of 10.9%

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Pension Pulse

MAY 11, 2023

Paulina Pielichata of Pensions & Investments reports CDPQ works to pump $11.2 billion into European private markets: Canadian pension fund Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec has recently moved into its new London headquarters as it is working to deploy C$15 billion ($11.2 billion) in private markets across Europe.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

The company is still in talks with its shareholders about raising as much as £1 billion in fresh funds following a £500 million injection agreed last year. Its largest shareholder is Canadian pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers), which holds a nearly 32 per cent stake. billion in Canadian funds.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Energy Transition – Still Moving Forward In 2023, it was easy to get down on the prospects for the energy transition. IMCO still have a large exposure to public equities and stocks, which hurt it last year as the Fund lost 8.1%.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2024

I’m excited about the power of this combination and the prospect of working with Larry and his talented team. Not just sovereign wealth funds, US, Canadian and European pension funds too. The energy transition Fink talks about is huge and Canada's large pension funds are all over it.

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Tucker Advisors

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As is the case with the public pensions of corporations, individuals can use indexed annuities to create their own pensions and receive a predetermined monthly income throughout their retirements. It’s the same basic income stream that pensioners receive from corporations who moved pension funds into indexed annuities.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Next, a top Canadian pension fund manages billions of dollars in investments. And I think last quarter you talked about Appian World prospects or leads being up 2x year over year. It's true we got more prospects than we typically get. So, I think it's great to get our prospects there. Unknown speaker Great.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 10, 2024

We assess the prospects of our strategies and opportunities over decades, not just quarters or years. I know, private equity funds have trillions in dry powder, the ratio of PE debt to PE dry powder doesn't look excessive as Andrew points out but I just feel like the asset class hasn't passed through a gut-wrenching recession yet.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

MAY 5, 2020

All of them undoubtedly will be looking for financial planning guidance on their total financial picture, but also, if you can include those concentrated wealth at work assets into your financial planning practice, it’s a tremendous value to your clients and prospects and a great opportunity for your business.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2024

million) to Canadian investment fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec (CDPQ), the telecom company said on Thursday. We remain committed to Connexa and its strong team and are pleased to see that CDPQ shares our confidence in the businesss long-term prospects.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 25, 2023

The firm’s experienced teams enable high net worth individuals and families as well as, medium to large sized companies, pension funds and trustees, asset managers, and their investors to focus on their core activities by choosing ZEDRA as their trusted partner. That means as our clients’ needs shift, so will we.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The combined company is set to play a leading role in California’s energy transition, which we view as a promising source of long-term risk-adjusted returns for the CPP Fund.” Remember, energy transition is an important theme at CPP Investments and all of Canada's large pension funds.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

Is your partner contributing any assets prospectively going forward? Andy Power -- President and Chief Executive Officer Matt can speak to the funding in our sources and uses in the guidance and leverage, and then Chris and I can ham and egg the India piece. And then secondly, I was curious just about India.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2023

While fears of an imminent recession are fading, wary investors are instead facing entrenched inflation and the prospect of more policy tightening. Bitcoin slid as much as 8% and oil was set for its first weekly loss since June. 24) Norges Bank 25) Nordea Investment Management 26) Korea Investment Corp.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

In private credit, tightening credit conditions resulting from a handful of bank failures and rescues in the United States have opened up opportunities for non-bank players like pension funds, he said. So we kind of had headwinds and tailwinds in the portfolio, which is the point of diversification,” Graham said. per cent return.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

And there is an additional $50 billion in prospective future development pipeline. In addition to insurance clients, pension funds and other LPs see the value we're creating in private credit, and there's been a strong response to our product offerings. Michael, last quarter, the message for this year on margins was stability.

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