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The Big Fiscal Cliff Deal Winners?
Nathan Vardi of Forbes reports, The Big Fiscal Cliff Deal Winners: Hedge Fund And Private Equity Moguls: In 2010 Steve Schwarzman, who runs the private equity and hedge fund behemoth the Blackstone...
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The Most Successful Hedge Funds of 2012?
Lucas Kawa of Business Insider reports, The 100 Most Successful Hedge Funds of 2012:The February 2013 edition of Bloomberg Markets Magazine features its ranking of the top 100 large hedge fund managers...
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Canada's Perfect Storm?
Over the holidays, my brother sent me an FT article written by Javier Blas, Canada’s oil now the cheapest in the world:Canadian oil has become the world’s cheapest crude due to a combination of surging...
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Corporate Plans Still Reeling After 2012?
Webwire reports, Canadian Defined Benefit Pension Plans’ Solvency Improves Slightly in 2012, According to Aon Hewitt:Defined benefit (DB) pension plans’ solvency in Canada improved slightly in 2012...
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CPPIB's Explosive Growth?
Sean Davidson of CBC reports, Canada Pension Plan's investments see 'explosive' growth:Whether they realized it or not, many Canadians did rather well in 2012 investing in companies that included...
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AIMCo's De Bever Sees a Tepid 2013?
Gary Lamphier of the Edmonton Journal reports, Alberta Investment Management Corp. wrings 8% gain out of 2012:Despite non-stop political wrangling in the United States and Europe and a sluggish global...
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Caisse Blowing $500M in the Wind?
Nicholas van Praet of the National Post reports, Caisse de depot invests US$500M in Canadian and U.S. wind farms:Canadian pension fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is pumping...
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The Dirty Business of Pension Divestment?
Larry Pynn of the Vancouver Sun reports, B.C.’s public-sector pension invests millions in Enbridge, tobacco stock:B.C.’s public-sector pensions are investing billions in Enbridge Inc. and other oil...
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UK's Radical Shake-Up of State Pensions?
Oliver Wright of the Independent reports, Radical shake-up of state pensions is 'fair', Prime Minister insists:David Cameron today defended the Government's plan to introduce a single "flat-rate" state...
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Wall Street Pay Gets Tougher Look?
Aaron Lucchetti of the WSJ reports, Wall Street Pay Gets Tougher Look:The activist investor whose firm last week disclosed that it bought a stake in Morgan Stanley has started prodding the securities...
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CalPERS Gains 13.3% in 2012
Stuart Pfeifer of the Los Angeles Times reports, CalPERS gains more than 13% in investment returns in 2012:California's massive public employee pension system gained more than 13% in investment returns...
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Prepare For a Global Currency War?
Earlier this week, Jeff Cox of CNBC wrote an interesting article, First Shots Are Fired in Global 'Currency War':Faced with a stubbornly slow and uneven global economic recovery, more countries are...
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Will Private Equity Boom in 2013?
Jeff Bounds of the Dallas Business journal reports, Expert sees robust private equity environment in 2013:As you will learn in tomorrow’s paper, the fourth quarter of 2012 was a good time for private...
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Canadian Funds Betting on Global Trade?
Glenda Korporaal of the Australian reports, Canadian pension funds plan investment splurge:Canada's $120 billion Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is looking at stepping up its investments in Australia...
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This Bull Market Gets No Respect?
Adam Shell of USA Today reports, Why does this bull market get no respect?:The current bull market on Wall Street has one thing in common with late comedian Rodney Dangerfield: It don't get no...
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Hedge Funds Cutting Fees in Half?
Sam Jones of the FT reports, New hedge fund bucks trend with fees cut:One of the UK’s fastest-growing hedge funds is slashing its fees, in a move that it hopes will spark a rethink of the industry’s...
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World's Biggest Hedge Fund in Deep Trouble?
Stephen Gandel, Senior Editor at CNN Money reports, Why the world's biggest hedge fund missed big in 2012:Here's what needs to be asked about giant hedge fund Bridgewater Associates and its founder Ray...
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Pensions Bet Big With Private Equity?
Michael Corkery of the WSJ reports, Pensions Bet Big With Private Equity:The office's occupant isn't a high-flying hedge fund but the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, a public pension fund with 1.3...
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Hedge Fund Cannibalism?
Sam Forgione of Reuters reports, Rumble in the Wall Street jungle: Ackman, Icahn duke it out on TV:Two of the most prominent investors in the world, Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman, had Wall Street...
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Dangers of Fighting the Last Investment War?
Tadas Viskanta of Abnormal Returns writes on the dangers of fighting the last investment war:It is often said that generals are always preparing to the fight the last war. The same thing could be said...
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