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CPPIB taps Deborah Orida as chief sustainability officer

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:00:24 +0000

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is appointing Deborah Orida as its first chief sustainability officer. In the role, Orida will lead the CPPIB’s efforts to address climate change. She’s mandated to maintain a global, cross-enterprise approach to sustainability. In a press release announcing her appointment, John Graham, the CPPIB’s president and chief executive officer, […]

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Caisse investing in digital platform developer, medical company

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:21:49 +0000

The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is taking a majority share in a California-based digital platform development company. The Caisse secured the shares in Wizeline Inc. through a transaction with the British private equity fund Apax Partners LLP. Wizeline, which was founded in 2014 as a cloud product development company, is also known […]

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CPPIB expanding Korean joint venture; Ontario Teachers’ selling payment processing company

mdunne — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:25:24 +0000

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has doubled down on its Korea Income Joint Venture with asset manager ESR Cayman Ltd., as the pair collectively boosted their investment by US$500 million, bringing the total equity allocation to US$1 billion. According to a news release, the CPPIB contributed the bulk of the new capital to the […]

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A private markets perspective on the pandemic in 2020 and beyond

mschmit — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 10:29:59 +0000

What a difference a year makes. At this time in 2019, initial reports of a novel virus to be called COVID-19 were just beginning to come out of China, and the pandemic was still months from becoming front-page news around the world. Investors were busy instead planning for another regular year in 2020, setting return […]

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PSP Investments raises over $700,000 for charities in wake of coronavirus pandemic

mschmit — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 05:49:19 +0000

The Public Sector Pension Investment Board’s special coronavirus emergency relief initiative has raised over $700,000 for various charities. Donations went to supporting four organizations actively involved in coronavirus relief efforts, namely HealthPartners, United Way/Centraide Canada,  the International Committee of the Red Cross and the  Community Foundations of Canada. Through the initiative, which ran from May 12 […]

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Siegel: ETFs do not cause market volatility

mschmit — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:43:10 +0000

Q&A with Jeremy Siegel says ETFs, inverse ETFs harmless.

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