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Report finds world’s 300 largest pension funds’ AUM increased 10% in 2023

Cassie Pastorfide — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:00:23 +0000

In 2023, the world’s 300 largest pension funds’ assets under management increased by 10 per cent to US$22.6 trillion, compared to $20.6 trillion at the end of 2022, according to a new report by WTW’s Thinking Ahead Institute. It found the top 20 largest global pension funds’ AUM increased by 12 per cent during the […]

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AIMCo sees quarterly returns of 1.7 per cent, CPPIB up 3.8 per cent

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:00:56 +0000

The Alberta Investment Management Corp. saw returns of 1.7 per cent during the third quarter of 2021, according to its quarterly report. Between July and the end of September, the AIMCo saw the value of its assets rise from $123.4 billion to $130.1 billion, beating its benchmark of 0.9 per cent. On a year-to-date basis, the […]

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CPPIB refinances packaging company, invests in reinsurance provider alongside OMERS; AIMCo invests in Asian PE fund

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:00:51 +0000

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is recapitalizing an expanding packaging business. The institutional investor has signed an agreement with the U.S.-based Berlin Packaging, a supplier of glass, plastic and metal containers with annual revenues of about US$2.5 billion. Private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners, which has been an investor in the packaging supplier […]

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Top 2021 Money Managers Report: What questions should pension plan sponsors ask in 2022?

bwolfe — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 13:53:15 +0000

In the early days of 2020, no one could have foreseen the social and economic havoc the coronavirus pandemic would wreak on the world. Nearly two years later, as markets and economies continue to recover, Canadian pension plan sponsors are looking to their money managers to help light the way to a brighter financial future. […]

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Sounding Board: How institutional investors can manage the physical risks of climate change

Jennifer Paterson — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:00:45 +0000

With recent deadly heat waves and wild fires ravaging Canada’s west coast and large-scale flooding in the east, who can ignore the growing risk of extreme weather? Irrespective of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, extreme weather events, driven by climate change, are projected to increase in frequency, intensity and duration through the 21st century, […]

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Domestic equity returns bolstering Canadian DB pension plan solvency: report

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:00:34 +0000

The average Canadian defined benefit pension plan saw improvements on a solvency and accountancy basis in October, according to LifeWorks Inc.’s monthly report. Its monthly report on DB pension indices found the average plan saw its solvency index rise to 111.5 per cent, up from 108.8 per cent at the end of September and a […]

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Coverage of the 2021 Global Investment Conference

Jennifer Paterson — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:05:43 +0000

Eighteen months after the onset of the coronavirus crisis, the 2021 Global Investment Conference looked at how the uncertain global future will impact pension portfolios. Across 10 sessions on Sept. 21-23 at the JW Marriott The Rousseau Resort, the event looked ahead while also reflecting on the foundational changes that have occurred over the past year and […]

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2021 GIC coverage: A look at China’s expanding opportunity set for institutional investors

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 11:58:47 +0000

For all its dangers, there’s still considerable opportunity to be found in the Chinese investment space. At the 2021 Global Investment Conference, Anh Lu, portfolio manager for the Asia ex-Japan equity strategy at T. Rowe Price, said the trick to capitalizing on the opportunities in the world’s most populous country is to consider the long-term […]

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2021 GIC coverage: How institutional investors’ losses in stock market crashes can fuel growth

bwolfe — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 11:54:33 +0000

As much as institutional investors fear stock market bubbles, they have an important role to play. The flooding of capital into new technologies and innovations leading up to a bubble’s bursting fuels innovation — an area that most corporations do not invest enough in, said Randall Morck, a finance professor at the University of Alberta, […]

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Canadian pension plan returns see modest growth in Q3: report

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:00:46 +0000

Canadian pension plans saw returns averaging about 0.6 per cent in the third quarter of 2021, according to a new report by Northern Trust Canada. Despite the sluggish growth in the quarter, gains from the first half of the year have buoyed most Canadian pension plans. The report found the median plan had seen the […]

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