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Are Toll Roads Too Risky For Pensions?
Tanya Snyder, Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor, posted an interesting comment, Credit Rating Agencies Uneasy About Toll Roads as Americans Drive Less:Toll roads aren’t the cash cows they used to be....
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Pressure Is On Private Equity?
Ryan Dezember of the WSJ reports, For Private Equity, Cashing Out Is the Easy Part:Carlyle Group LP's second-quarter results reaffirmed that it is a sellers' market for private-equity firms, as the...
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Are We All Going to Pension Hell?
Megan McArdle of Bloomberg reports, We Are All Going to Pension Hell:One of the most startling moments of the Detroit bankruptcy was when a judge stepped in to stay the bankruptcy at the behest of the...
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Normand Provost to Retire From the Caisse
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec released a statement, Normand Provost announces his intention to retire:After more than 33 years of service, Normand Provost, Executive Vice-President,...
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Commercial Real Estate On the Mend?
PR News wire reports, Commercial Real Estate Mending Amid Ongoing Economic, Political Uncertainty:Commercial real estate markets continue their gradual, uneven recovery — with investment capital...
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The Race to De-Risk Pensions?
Julius Melnitzer of the National Post reports, The race to de-risk sparks growth for pension practices:Business law firms are beefing up their pension departments to advise clients on a range of...
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Investing in a Debt-Fuelled World?
In June, Principal Global Investors released the fifth annual asset management research report, Investing in a Debt-Fuelled World, presenting critical findings on how the current ultra-low interest...
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Caisse's 2013 Mid-Year Update
On Friday, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec provided an update on its performance as at June 30, 2013:At the end of this period, the average annual return over four years was 10.5%,...
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Big Investors Dodging Wall Street?
Nathaniel Popper of the New York Times reports, Public Funds Take Control of Assets, Dodging Wall Street:Investors responsible for more than $2 trillion recently gathered at a resort in the Canadian...
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How OTPP Got in Bed With Saks?
Tara Perkins of the Globe and Mail reports, How the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan got in bed with Saks:The job ad might read something like this: Wanted, a serial dater who likes to shop and is...
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Rising Returns Bolster U.S. Public Pensions?
Tim Reid of Reuters reports, Rising returns give U.S. public pension funds chance to reform:Many U.S. public pension funds are benefiting from double-digit annual returns in fiscal 2013 that are giving...
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Hedge Funds Coming Up Short?
Steven Russolillo of the Wall Street Journal reports, Hedge Funds Severely Underperforming This Year: It’s been a great year for the stock market. It’s been a tough year for a hedge-fund manager.A...
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Investors Lukewarm on Private Equity?
Sean Farrell of the Guardian reports, Private equity: have investors learned from their mistakes?:It seems a long time ago when private equity was the unacceptable face of capitalism in Britain. But on...
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Pensions Inflating an Infrastructure Bubble?
Sally Patten of the Australian Financial Review reports, Future Fund says infrastructure assets not in bubble territory:The $85 billion Future Fund has defended the price it paid for a stake in Perth...
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Corporate Pensions Embrace Riskier Assets?
Maxwell Murphy of the Wall Street Journal reports, Some Pensions Embrace Riskier Assets:Thinly traded and hard-to-value investments such as real estate and private equity stakes are taking up a larger...
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From Bond Apathy To Bond Panic?
Yves Lamoureux of Lamoureux & Co. wrote a comment on ETF Daily News, From Bond Apathy to Bond Panic:We have been glad this year to be on the side of the bull camp. Our job has been an easy one as...
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Dispelling Public Pension Plan Myths
Helen Fetterly, chair of Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), wrote an article for Benefits Canada, Dispelling public pension plan myths:I’ve been involved with the Healthcare of Ontario Pension...
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Did Eike Batista Burn Ontario Teachers?
Roberto A. Ferdman of Quartz reports, How Brazil’s richest man lost 97% of his fortune in less than two years:In 2010, Eike Batista announced that he would soon become the world’s richest man, and it...
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Doug Pearce to Retire from bcIMC
Last week, the Globe and Mail reported, B.C.’s asset manager for public pensions, trusts to retire: Doug Pearce, long-time chief executive officer of British Columbia Investment Management Corp., will...
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CPPIB Investing Gangnam Style?
Barbara Shecter of the National Post reports, Canadian pension plan invests ‘Gangnam style’:The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is investing Gangnam style — almost.The pension fund has acquired a...
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