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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

CPP Investments will remain an investor with a 24% stake in a newly formed open-ended logistics core fund, which will house KDV I’s stabilized assets. CPP Investments will remain an investor with a 24% stake in a newly formed open-ended logistics core fund, which will house KDV I’s stabilized assets.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2025

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Oxford Properties sells 50% stake in $1.2-billion billion European warehouse portfolio to AustralianSuper: Oxford Properties Group is selling a 50-per-cent stake in a $1.2-billion AustralianSuper has acquired a 50% stake in Oxfords c.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The US deal comes after CPPIB and US private equity titan Blackstone last month announced the $16 billion acquisition of Australia’s AirTrunk , with CPPIB having agreed to take a 12 percent stake in the firm. According to a source close to the matter, Schroders is working on a transition plan ahead of van Oosterom’s move.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 25, 2023

is acquiring a minority stake in a corporate consultant and fund administration provider. Zedra, which provides wealth, governance and administrative services for corporations, pensions, trusts and funds, was launched in the Isle of Man in 2016. That means as our clients’ needs shift, so will we.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2021, Australias Telstra sold a 49% stake in its towers for A$2.1b (NZ$2.3b). Adwitiya Srivastava of Reuters also reports Spark New Zealand to sell stake in mobile towers business to Canada's CDPQ for $182 million: Spark New Zealand will sell its remaining 17% stake in mobile towers firm Connexa for NZ$314 million ($181.77

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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

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.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Private Grief Private markets — made up of PE firms who take stakes in companies, and private credit funds who lend to them — have ballooned since the turn of the millennium, expanding by 15 times according to a September report from the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

In fact, virtually all of our drawdown funds we've launched in our history, have been profitable for our investors. Our performance has helped secure retirees' pensions, fund students educations, pay healthcare benefits, and protect and grow the savings of individual investors. Our prospects are accelerating.

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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

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

AUGUST 3, 2023

Next, a top Canadian pension fund manages billions of dollars in investments. So, do you think this is really table stakes now? 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. Is it something else?

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

million shares of common stock to the equity owners of Aera, which is owned by entities managed by German asset management group IKAV and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. sold their stakes to IKAV in 2022. 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

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. Obviously, we can manufacture a lot of transactions ourselves.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

MIAN: In 2015, Carl Icahn sold all his Netflix stake because it was too expensive. You know, if you’re a CIO of a pension fund, you’re always thinking about your employees and your portfolio and the plan sponsors. In 2012 Facebook went public, the IPO flopped. RITHOLTZ: That’s right. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 5, 2024

IMCO CEO Bert Clark posted a comment on LinkedIn going over the Canadian model and other thoughts from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium: I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Top1000 Funds’ Fiduciary Investors Symposium Toronto 2024. The solution isn’t having pension funds invest more in the existing opportunity set.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

If you’re anywhere from an individual to a pension fund, saying how much do I have to save to retire? And some of that can always be in there, so you want to be prospective. ASNESS: Some indicator that when the Shiller CAPE is very high, the PE is very high, the 10-year prospective returns are low. ASNESS: Same way.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 10, 2023

But even so-called “passive” investments in index funds, a common tool used by Canada’s big pension managers, can lead to stakes that might trouble Canadian pensioners, such as companies on a U.S. Dude, have you ever worked at a pension fund? What's your track record, son? "

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2025

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2025

I talked about a discovery on the Nigeria shelf, Saudi Arabian gas, South Angola, We have a number of other very attractive prospects there. There's always the prospects that we see technology breakthroughs. There's a lot of acreage that is prospective for tiebacks. You mentioned West Africa. There's a number of opportunities.

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