This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2013

We have theories that are the worst kind of popular tripe, our methods are sloppy and our returns are highly questionable. Plus, I've heard, and can anecdotally corroborate, that most angel investors put 70% of all the money they will ever put into startups to work in their very first year of angel investing.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I was working for the GM pension fund, an institutional LP, as an analyst, doing a research project on consumer private equity and venture capital investing. I was researching consumer focused funds, building and fixing brands, and talking to just about every consumer minded investor I could find.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

But despite increasing concern about private equity tactics, over the past decade CPP Investments has shifted more and more of its assets into that investing category in search of high returns. If I were running a pension fund, I would be very careful about what was being offered to me. For comparison, CalPERS, the largest U.S.

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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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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

She has been an early investor in companies that went public such as FIGS, Casper, and CloudFlare, as well as startups like Gimlett and Lightwell, that were later acquired by Spotify and Twitter. Inefficient markets can lead to unexpectedly better returns. billion dollar startups have a founder who came here as a student.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mr. Hill will join OMERS in September, the public pension fund announced Wednesday, and report to Ralph Berg, who took over as the chief investment officer in April. The infrastructure business Mr. Hill is taking over has broadly performed well for OMERS, returning 12.5 per cent on its investments in 2022 and an average of 10.2

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

A month ago, Eliyahu Kamisher of the Los Angels Times reported that CalPERS pension fund posts 5.8% gain in its latest fiscal year as the stock market rally and private debt buoyed the largest traditional public pension fund in the United States. Returns for the year that ended June 30 were driven by a 14.1%

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Gillian Tan, Swetha Gopinath and Layan Odeh of Bloomberg report OMERS to stop making direct private equity investments in Europe: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System will stop making direct private equity investments in Europe as the pension fund overhauls its operations there, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 5, 2024

Vanderbilt University Endowment, the University of Illinois Foundation and existing investors also participated in the extension to a January funding round, lifting Bilt’s valuation to US$3.25 OTPP, the Canadian pension fund, owns Willow Bridge Property Co., billion from US$3.1 Why do they do this?

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Advocacy groups have accused the private fund industry of unfair, conflicted and opaque practices that hurt everyday Americans who invest in such funds through their pensions. It's not as if some state pension fund benefits from opacity," SEC Chair Gary Gensler told reporters after the panel's vote.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

 At The Money: Finding Overlooked Private Investments , with Soraya Darabi, TMV (October 02, 2024) We expect our investments to generate positive financial returns, but can they also have a positive societal effect? Inefficient markets can lead to unexpectedly better returns. Can your capital make an impact?

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 3, 2024

While pension and sovereign funds have positioned themselves well in private markets to harvest clean energy opportunities, Ambachtsheer said “the big question will be on the public [market] side”. per cent on an annualised total return basis in the past three years. “A Think big, think scalable, think nuclear. That's my motto.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Do you find yourself longing for new opportunities that can potentially generate higher returns over market cycles? Commercial properties, such as office spaces or retail buildings, can offer higher potential returns. If so, it’s time to delve into alternative investments.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Do you find yourself longing for new opportunities that can potentially generate higher returns over market cycles? Commercial properties, such as office spaces or retail buildings, can offer higher potential returns. If so, it’s time to delve into alternative investments.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. 00:07:47 [Speaker Changed] It it could, it could also depend on the bogey or the target return for either the, if the person managing those two portfolios are different, they may have different objectives. Absolutely.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Teachers' invests in portable battery company aiming to replace gas-powered generators: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading a US$95-million funding round for Instagrid GmbH, a German maker of portable battery systems designed to replace gas-powered generators.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

You incorporate expected company returns, mortality rates, and fee structures to try to predict how a venture capital fund works from a cash in, cash out, and NAV standpoint. On the other hand, you can't exactly model out being in Accel Facebook fund, the First Round Uber fund, or the Lowercase Twitter fund.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. From that experience, I realized that I really loved startups, but then I was never going to be good operator, but I thought I could maybe be a decent investor. Why is that? Was he just early?

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

RITHOLTZ: And — and to — for a little context, maybe for some of the audience in America who may not be that familiar with Man Group, this isn’t like a startup. And we partner with those institutions to return value. And how we partner and make sure that we’re returning Alpha. And it is slightly surreal.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And what we will also know, those of us who work in investment, is that your future returns are inversely related to the valuation. I was working for Breakingviews in New York, and we were returning to England after a couple of years. pension funds engaged in to the tune of hundreds of billions of pounds.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We should be like, 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] It’s 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] A startup. You know, the, the performance numbers, our returns were just kind of really great because it was a target rich world. Not, not direct lending much more the higher risk, higher return lending. Seven, eight, 9% kind of returns.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada Pension Plan Investment Board joins startup at $100 million Reforestation Fund: Canada’s largest pension fund has joined a project to produce carbon credits by planting more than 100 native tree species on degraded land in Brazil’s Amazon region.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And Forstmann Little created, instead of going on insurance companies, raised its own fund for the mezzanine debt, that they could have the banks themselves and then Forstmann Little equity. The initial deals were small in dollars, but incredibly high returns. And there’s just different risks and return possibilities.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Fund, which includes the combination of the base CPP and additional CPP accounts, achieved a 10-year annualized net return of 9.6%. For the quarter, the Fund’s net return was 0.1%. For the period, the Fund’s net return was negative 0.7%. dollar relative to the Canadian dollar.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, returning after a too long of a wait, Professor Aswath Damodaran. DAMODARAN: Forty years ago, 95 percent of cash returned by companies took the form of dividends. In 1981, when I started, dividends were the way to go for returned cash.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In addition to BMW and Volkswagen AG , Northvolt’s top investors included Goldman Sachs’s asset management arm, Denmark’s biggest pension fund ATP, Baillie Gifford & Co. funds and a number of Swedish entities. What a mess, Northvolt's collapse has hit many investors, including Canadian pension funds.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 2, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports HOOPP names infrastructure expert Annesley Wallace as its next CEO: The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan has named Annesley Wallace as its next chief executive officer, reaching outside the organization to choose a leader with expertise in infrastructure investing and strategy. billion ($80.2

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Daniel Johnson of Bloomberg reports fall economic statement: Ottawa seeks to lower pension fund investments caps: The federal government announced a move to ease limits for pension funds investing in Canadian companies in its latest fiscal update, along with responses to tariff threats from the U.S.

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American Investment Council

APRIL 8, 2025

Lost Retirement Earnings Private investments deliver the strongest returns for public pensions and strengthen retirement savings for more than 34 million public workers.Public pension funds supporting retirees could lose up to $520 million annually since they would be forced to shift into lower-yielding investments.

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American Investment Council

APRIL 7, 2025

Lost Retirement Earnings Private investments deliver the strongest returns for public pensions and strengthen retirement savings for more than 34 million public workers. Public pension funds supporting retirees could lose up to $520 million annually since they would be forced to shift into lower-yielding investments.

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