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Ontario’s Pension Power Grab?
The National Post published its editorial comment on Ontario’s pension power grab:A new Fraser Institute report raises serious questions about the veracity of the Ontario government’s claim that a new...
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Bridgewater Turns Bearish on China?
Rob Copeland and Mia Lamar of the Wall Street Journal report, Giant Hedge Fund Bridgewater Flips View on China: ‘No Safe Places to Invest’:The world’s biggest hedge fund has turned on the world’s...
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An Ominous Sign From Commodities?
Martin Ritchie and Agnieszka De Sousa of Bloomberg report, Copper Poised for Worst Week Since January as Commodities Slump:Copper traded near the lowest since 2009 as Chinese manufacturing data added...
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PSP Investments Gains 14.5% in Fiscal 2015
The Canada News Wire reports, PSP Investments Reports Fiscal Year 2015 Results:The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) announced today a gross total portfolio return of 14.5% for...
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The Maestro's Dire Warning on Bonds?
Greg Robb of MarketWatch reports, Greenspan warns about bond-market bubble:Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is sounding the alarm about a bubble that he believes is forming in the bond...
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Time To Load Up on Biotechs?
Fred Imbert of CNBC reports, Relax, we're about to hit the bottom in stocks:U.S. stock investors take a breather. The market is nearing its bottom, Jeffrey Saut, chief investment strategist at Raymond...
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The (Flash) Crash of 2015?
Marc Jones of Reuters reports, Great fall of China sinks world stocks, dollar tumbles:Alarm bells rang across world markets on Monday as a near 9 percent dive in China shares and a sharp drop in the...
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Questioning Harper's Retirement Policies?
Dean Beeby of CBC News reports, Document raises questions about Harper retirement policies:Canada scores poorly among developed countries in providing public pensions to seniors, according to an...
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Chicago's Huge Pension Conflicts?
Matthew Cunningham-Cook of the International Business Times reports, At Chicago Pension Fund, Questions Raised On Conflicts of Interest:Chicago pension officials wanted to know where to deposit the $11...
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Hedge Funds Take a Beating?
Rob Copeland of the Wall Street Journal reports, Hedge Funds Bruised by Stocks’ Meltdown:Hedge-fund managers like to promise their investors protection from market swings. In the recent stock swoon,...
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Betting Big on a Global Recovery?
Dan Strump and Josie Cox of the Wall Street Journal report, U.S. Stocks Rally Amid Recovery in Global Markets:Stocks soared for the second day in a row, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average erasing...
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CalPERS Looks To Cut Financial Risk?
Melody Petersen of the Los Angeles Times reports, In strategy shift, CalPERS looks to cut financial risk:California taxpayers have never paid more for public worker pensions, but it's still not enough...
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Stoking Fears of Deflation?
Laurence Mutkin, global head of G10 rates strategy at BNP Paribas, wrote an op-ed for the Financial Times,China devaluation stirs deflation fears:What is behind global financial markets’ extreme moves...
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Mad Money Killing State Pensions?
Edward Krudy of Reuters reports, Markets’ wild moves seen making U.S. public pension funds vulnerable:Last week's wild gyrations in global financial markets almost certainly exposed the vulnerability...
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CalSTRS Reviewing Risk Mitigation Strategies?
Timothy W. Martin of the Wall Street Journal reports, Giant U.S. Pension Fund Calstrs to Propose Shift Away From Stocks, Bonds: The nation’s second-largest pension fund is considering a significant...
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Private Equity Doubling Down on Energy?
Ryan Dezember of the Wall Street Journal reports, Private-Equity Firms Plunge Back Into the Oil Patch: Private-equity firms are doubling down on energy, despite heavy damage from their last adventure...
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CPPIB and PSP Buy South Korea's Homeplus?
The Canadian Press reports, Canada pension funds buy stake in South Korean grocer as part of $6 billion deal:Two Canadian pension plans are part of a consortium that purchased South Korean supermarket...
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Beware of Large Hedge Funds?
Carolyn Cui and Gregory Zuckerman of the Wall Street Journal report, An Obscure Hedge Fund Is Buying Tens of Billions of Dollars of U.S. Treasurys:A little-known New York hedge fund run by a former...
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CalPERS Grilled on Private Equity?
Chris Flood of the Financial Times reports, Calpers’ support of private equity ‘propaganda’ slammed:A board member of the largest US pension fund has written a scathing letter to its chief executive,...
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Another Tepper Tantrum?
Maneet Ahuja and Matthew J. Belvedere of CNBC report, David Tepper: Good time to take money off the table:Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper said Thursday he's "not as bullish" as he could be—taking a...
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