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Canada's Pensions Worried About Brexit?
Matt Scuffham of Reuters reports, Canada pension funds hold back on U.K. deals ahead of Brexit vote:Some of Canada’s top pension funds, among the world’s biggest investors in British real estate and...
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Markets Defying Central Bankers?
Min Zen and and Ira Iosebashvili of the Wall Street Journal report, Global Currencies Soar, Defying Central Bankers:Efforts by many of the world’s central banks to weaken their currencies are failing,...
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The Bonfire of the Hedge Funds?
Julia La Roche of Business Insider reports, The bonfire of the hedge funds:The numbers have been tallied, and more hedge funds closed in the fourth quarter of last year than at any time since the...
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Draghi's Pension Poison?
Chris Bryant of Bloomberg reports, Draghi's Pension Poison:Mario Draghi's latest batch of measures to boost the euro-area economy comes with a sting in the tail for companies and anyone hoping to...
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AIMCo Returns 9.1% in 2015
Benefits Canada reports, AIMCo returns 9.1% in 2015:Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) has reported a 9.1% rate of return on its total assets under management for the year ending...
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Ontario Teachers' Brussels Connection?
Barbara Shecter of the National Post reports, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan owns 39% stake in terror-targeted Brussels Airport:The terrorist attack in Brussels on Tuesday morning hit close to home for...
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Chicago's Pension Nightmare?
The Wall Street Journal reports, Chicago Pension Nightmare:The hits keep coming for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. On Thursday the Illinois Supreme Court struck down the city’s pension reform, which...
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Shifting the Focus on Enhancing the CPP?
Andy Blatchford of the Canadian Press reports, Next on the Finance Minister’s to do list: Get provinces to support a Canada Pension Plan expansion:With his first budget behind him, rookie Finance...
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Are Canadian Banks in Big Trouble?
Barbara Shecter of the National Post reports, TD expects ‘next shoe to drop’ on Canadian banks’ relatively low oil loan provisions:Canadian banks are taking lower provisions for oil and gas related...
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Ontario Teachers' Gains 13% in 2015
Jacqueline Nelson of the Globe and Mail reports, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan posts 13% return in 2015:Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s 13-per-cent rate of return in 2015 was buoyed by growth in its...
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Loonie Hurting Canadian Pension Plans?
Janet McFarland of the Globe and Mail reports, Volatile markets, stronger loonie hurt solvency of pension plans:Canadian pension plans faced a sharp drop in solvency in the first quarter of 2016 as a...
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On Pensions and the Wall Street Mob?
Elliot Blair Smith of MarketWatch reports, How the Teamsters pension disappeared more quickly under Wall Street than the mob:Real estate investments in Las Vegas casinos and hotels once threatened the...
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A Requiem For Hedge Funds?
Timothy W. Martin and Rob Copeland of the Wall Street Journal report, Investors Pull Cash From Hedge Funds as Returns Lag Market:Marc Levine, chairman of the $16 billion Illinois State Board of...
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CPPIB Goes on a Massive Agri Hunt?
Jesse Riseborough and Javier Blas of Bloomberg News report, Glencore Plc sells $2.5 billion stake in agriculture business to CPPIB:Canada’s largest pension fund agreed to pay US$2.5 billion for a...
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Will the Treasury Rally Turn to a Rout?
Wes Goodman of Bloomberg reports, Jamie Dimon Warns Treasury Rally May Turn to Rout as Rates Rise:Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., said he’s concerned demand for...
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A Revolutionary Retirement Plan?
New York's New School of Social Research recently put out a blog comment, Teresa Ghilarducci’s Revolutionary Retirement Plan:Americans do not have enough saved for retirement. In 2013, 28 percent of...
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Will Oil Double By Year-End?
Saijel Kishan and Grant Smith of Bloomberg report, 'Multi-year bull run' begins for oil, says Pierre Andurand:Pierre Andurand, a hedge-fund manager who predicted the oil collapse, said crude is...
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Will The Yen's Surge Trigger a Crisis?
Andrea Wong of Bloomberg reports, The Yen's Puzzling Surge, Explained in One Morgan Stanley Theory:The yen’s surge this week to the strongest since 2014, which has confounded most currency traders and...
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Patience and Reality On Pensions?
Corina Ruhe of Bloomberg reports, ECB's Knot Calls for Patience as Low Rates Raise Pension Concern: European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot called for “patience and reality” over...
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Another Asian Financial Crisis?
Gregor Stuart Hunter and Ewen Chew of the Wall Street Journal report, Currencies Across Asia Fall Sharply Against U.S. Dollar:Currencies across Asia including the Chinese yuan dropped sharply against...
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