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AIMCo, AIIB and BlackRock Back $800 Million Asia Infrastructure Fund
Low De Wei of Bloomberg News reports BlackRock, Aimco Back $800 Million Asia Infrastructure Fund:An Asia-focused infrastructure fund has raised $800 million from investors including funds managed by...
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OTPP Sells Shearer's Foods and Acquires Stake in Mahindra Susten
Jenni Spinner of Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery reports private-label snack producer Shearer’s Foods changes hands:Private investment firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice has announced that it has...
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Fed's Dovish Pivot Fuels Euphoria But Hard Landing Still Lies Ahead
Brian Evans and Sarah Min report Dow, Nasdaq close higher Friday, extending rally to a seventh winning week:The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed higher Friday after a whipsaw session, where it...
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CPP Investments Sinks Another £300M Into Octopus Energy, Buys Huge Stake in...
Rasak Musah Baba of IPE Real Assets reports CPP Investments backs Octopus Energy’s expansion with further £300m:Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has backed Octopus Energy Group’s...
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Oxford Properties Sells Controlling Stake in C$1.3B Canadian Logistics to TPG
IPE Real Assets reports Oxford Properties sells controlling stake in C$1.3bn Canadian industrial parks to TPG:Global asset manager TPG has acquired a 75% stake in a C$1.3bn (€888m) industrial park...
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IMCO's CEO Bert Clark Bids Farewell to 2023
Bert Clark, IMCO's President and CEO wrote a comment on LinkedIn on an investor's farewell to 2023: Like a movie with many plot twists, 2023 is the kind of year where you want to see the ending before...
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A Discussion With CDPQ's Marc-André Blanchard on Sustainability, COP28 and More
This afternoon I had an interesting conversation with Marc-André Blanchard, Executive Vice-President and Head of CDPQ Global and Global Head of Sustainability.Mr. Blanchard is a very busy man so I was...
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Outlook 2024: Soft Minds, Hard Landings
Lisa Kalia Han and Jesse Pound of CNBC report the S&P 500 closes slightly higher Friday, but major averages end 9-week win streak:The S&P 500 ended Friday modestly higher, but all three of the...
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On The Discrepancy Between OMERS and USS's Writedown on Thames Water
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...
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CDPQ Invests Another $100 Million Into AppDirect To Enhance Capital Program
Josh Scott of BetaKit reports CDPQ invests $136 million CAD into AppDirect lending program for tech advisors:Canadian-founded, San Francisco-based AppDirect has secured $136 million CAD ($100 million...
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CPP Investments' Andrew Edgell on Private Debt's Next Stress Test
Antares Capital recently posted a chat with Andrew Edgell,Senior Managing Director & Global Head of Credit Investments at CPP Investments about how he sees private debt faring in the credit cycle...
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CalSTRS' CIO Chris Ailman Stepping Down at the End of June
Arleen Jacobius of Pensions & Investments reports CalSTRS’ Ailman to retire June 30, tells P&I his focus will be climate change, energy transition:Christopher Ailman, chief investment officer...
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On Why BlackRock Wants To Be Blackstone Again With a Twist of Crypto
Silla Brush of Bloomberg reports BlackRock names Cohen, Lord to top posts, Ramji to step down:BlackRock Inc. is shaking up the top ranks of management, creating a new global product strategy group led...
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Ontario Slams Alberta's Pension Plan Report
Matthew Black of Postmedia reports'only half of the full picture': Ontario government briefing note slams Alberta's pension plan report:Ontario civil servants believe Alberta’s pension plan report...
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CalSTRS Leads Big-Money Charge Back To Bonds
Denitsa Tsekova of Bloomberg reports a $300 billion pension fund leads big-money charge back to bonds:When Christopher Ailman became the chief investment officer of the California State Teachers’...
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CPP Investments and Blue Owl Provide $1.25B of Capital To BridgeBio Pharma
Colin Kellaher of the Wall Street Journal reports BridgeBio gets up to $1.25 billion in new financing:BridgeBio Pharma has secured up to $1.25 billion in new financing, as the biopharmaceutical company...
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Animal Spirits Lift S&P 500 to a New Record High
Hakyung Kim and Lisa Kali Han of CNBC report the S&P 500 rallies 1% to all-time high, surpassing previous record set in 2022: The S&P 500closed at an all-time high on Friday as investors...
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OMERS Looks To Sell LifeLabs; CPP Investments Sells Stake in Visma
Last week, Andrew Willis, James Bradshaw and Sean Silcoff of the Globe and Mail reported that OMERS is looking to sell LifeLabs:One of the country’s largest pension plans has put Canada’s biggest...
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Ivanhoé Cambridge and LOGOS Invest in India's Chakan Industrial Estate
CDPQ's real estate subsidiary, Ivanhoé Cambridge along with the leading Asia-Pacific logistics specialist LOGOS announced they will commit over INR 11 billion (C$180M) investment in Chakan Industrial...
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CDPQ to Integrate its Real Estate Subsidiaries
Real Estate News Exchange reports CDPQ to integrate real estate subsidiaries Ivanhoé Cambridge, Otéra Capital:The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) has become the latest major Canadian...
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