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Wynne's Flawed Pension Plans?
The Waterloo Record published an editorial on Wynne's flawed pension plans:Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne must be getting ready for a fight. This week she brought in the big guns — former prime...
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Air Canada's Pension Flying High?
The Canadian Press reports, Air Canada eliminates $3.7B pension deficit, posts small surplus:Air Canada took a major step forward Wednesday as it reported its pension plans posted a small surplus,...
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Ontario's Technical Advisory Group?
Keith Leslie of the Canadian Press reports, Wynne says new plans for Ontario Pension Plan to be unveiled this spring:Plans for an Ontario Pension Plan will be unveiled by the minority Liberal...
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Obama's MyRA Nest Egg? That's It?
Nick Summers of Bloomberg Businessweek reports, Can Obama's 'MyRA' Lure Workers Who Don't Save for Retirement?:President Obama picked a good venue to boost the “MyRA” retirement savings accounts he...
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Wynne Hedging Her Bets on New Pension?
Martin Regg Cohn of the Toronto Star reports, Kathleen Wynne hedges her bets on Ontario pension:Kathleen Wynne is at a turning point on pensions.For much of her first year in power, the premier...
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Caisse Blowing Another $500M in the Wind?
Reuters Canada recently reported, Canada's Caisse buys part of Dong's stake in massive UK windfarm:Denmark's Dong Energy DOENRY.UL has sold half of its 50 percent stake in the world's largest offshore...
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2013's Best Hedge Fund Manager?
Meena Krishnamsetty of MarketWatch reports, 2013's best hedge fund manager still picking winners:We recently published our list of 2013’s best hedge fund managers. Michael Castor was at the top of the...
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Can U.S. Pensions Be Resurrected?
Floyd Norris of the New York Times reports, Ideas to make Retirement Possible (h/t, Suzanne Bishopric):Who killed pensions? Can they be resurrected?A few decades ago, pensions were almost taken for...
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Cheers to Poorer UK State Pensions?
John Greenwood of the Guardian reports, Poorer state pensions for the millions advised to stay contracted in:The state pension is changing, and both pensions minister Steve Webb and David Cameron are...
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Hedge Fund Kings of 2013?
Mark Decambre of Quartz reports, George Soros’s fund killed it in 2013, but most hedge funds didn’t:A handful of hedge funds are boasting their best-ever returns in dollar terms in 2013 according to a...
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CPPIB Living High on the Hogg?
Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, private equity correspondent at the Financial Times reports, Cressida Hogg quits private equity group 3i:3i investment veteran Cressida Hogg has left the UK-based private equity...
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The Economics of Love and Inequality?
One of my favorite economists, Martin Feldstein of Harvard University, shared his thoughts on CNBC this morning on the future of growth in the U.S. economy, and how changes in lifestyle are impacting...
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Alberta's Push to Cut Pension Costs?
Kelly Cryderman of the Globe and Mail reports, Alberta pushes ahead with plan to cut pension costs:The province of Alberta remains poised to make a series of reforms to its public sector pension plans...
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Top Funds Activity During Q4 2013
Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Jennifer Ablan of Reuters report, Hedge funds buy GM in Q4; Soros takes stakes in JP Morgan, Citi:Top U.S. hedge fund managers in the fourth quarter focused on the consumer...
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CalPERS Strikes Fear Into PE Firms?
Matthew DeBord wrote a comment for Southern California Radio O89.3KPC, CalPERS strikes fear in the hearts of private equity firms:Yesterday, CalPERS, the huge California public employees pension fund,...
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Will Deflation Expose Naked Swimmers?
Simon Kennedy and Rich Miller of Bloomberg report, Deflation Threat Worries G-20 Roiled by Emerging Markets: Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi have a new reason to consider what International Monetary Fund...
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Buffett's Dire Warning on Pensions?
Luciana Lopez of Reuters reports, Buffett says more bad news on pension funds during next decade:Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren Buffett warned on Saturday that the growing crisis in public...
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Caisse de Depot Returns 13% in 2013
Frederic Tomesco of Bloomberg reports, Caisse de Depot Returns 13% in 2013 as Equities Soar:Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Canada’s second-largest pension-fund manager by assets, returned 13...
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OMERS Gains a Mere 6.5% in 2013
Katia Dmitrieva of Bloomberg reports, Omers Earns 6.5% Return in 2013; Index-Linked Bonds Weigh:Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, a pension fund manager in Canada’s most populous province,...
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Promoting Quebec's Hedge Funds?
This comment is bilingual so bear with me, I will translate the important parts of the article. Richard Dufour of La Presse reports, Les petits gestionnaires de portefeuille québécois se regroupent:...
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