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Global Bonds Enter The Twilight Zone?
Chikako Mogi of Bloomberg reports, Japan Bond Yields Tumble to New Lows as Yen Soars on Brexit, Fed: Japan’s government bonds surged, driving down yields from five to 40 years to record lows as the yen...
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Picking Up Canada's Pension Slack?
Andy Blatchford of The Canadian Press reports, Bill Morneau's briefing book raises red flags on public pension investment:A briefing book prepared last fall for incoming Finance Minister Bill Morneau...
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Chasing a CPP Consensus?
Geordan Omand of the Canadian Press reports, Revamp of Canada Pension Plan centre stage at finance ministers' meeting:The federal finance minister says revamping the Canada Pension Plan is critical to...
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An Agreement on Expanding the CPP?
Geordon Omand of the Canadian Press reports, Finance ministers reach agreement on expanding CPP:Most of Canada's finance ministers reached an agreement in principle Monday to revamp the Canada Pension...
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To Brexit Or Not To Brexit?
John Geddie of Reuters reports, Beyond Brexit, easy central banks keep euro zone bonds in demand:Investors hoovered up euro zone bonds on Wednesday, daring to look beyond Britain's EU vote to a world...
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Canada's Next Pension Challenge?
Don Pittis of CBC News reports, Now that Bill Morneau conquered the CPP it's time to move on to a harder pension problem: Who would ever have guessed that hammering out a Canada Pension Plan solution...
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Europe's Minsky Moment?
Herbert Lash and Marc Jones of Reuters report, World stocks tumble as Britain votes for EU exit:Global capital markets reeled on Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union, with $2 trillion...
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Profiting From Brexit?
Rachael Levy of Business Insider reports, A select group of hedge funds made some serious money on Brexit:The UK has voted to leave the European Union, a shock decision that sent markets crashing on...
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Ontario Teachers' Brazilian Blunders?
Theresa Tedesco of the National Post reports, Buyer beware: How the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan got caught in the fallout of Brazil’s biggest scandal:An investigation into money laundering at gas...
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Teachers Wage War on Hedge Funds?
Brody Mullins of the Wall Street Journal reports, Teachers Union and Hedge Funds War Over Pension Billions:Daniel Loeb, Paul Singer and dozens of other hedge-fund managers have poured millions of...
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Hedge Funds' Brexit Pain?
Christopher Langner of Bloomberg reports, Hedge Funds' Brexit Pain:Hedge fund managers won't admit it, but they live for the quarter. While some of the bigger firms update clients more often, regular...
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Summer Crash of 2016?
Michael Gayed of Pension Partners asks, Summer Crash of 2016?:Amazing what a difference a day makes. On Tuesday of last week, I wrote the below article which was set to be published on Marketwatch.com...
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The Big CPP Clash?
Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre of the Fraser Institute wrote an op-ed for the National Post, The big CPP clash: Who’s fuelling pension myths now?:The “agreement in principle” to expand the Canada...
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The Bond Market's Ominous Warning?
Neil Irwin of the New York Times reports, If the message the bond market is sending is right, we should all be terrified:The financial media tend to report breathlessly about what the stock market did...
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The Yipee Stock Market?
Aaron Task of Fortune reports, 3 Reasons the Stock Market Is Rising Even As the World Feels Like It's Falling Apart: It’s been three weeks since British voters shocked the world and voted to leave the...
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Hard Times in Hedge Fundistan?
Rob Copeland of the Wall Street Journal reports, Bridgewater’s Flagship Fund Falters as Another Thrives:The world’s largest hedge-fund firm posted billion-dollar swings in its largest funds during the...
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bcIMC Dips 0.2% in Fiscal 2016
Canada News Wire reports, bcIMC Reports Fiscal 2016 Annual Returns:British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (bcIMC) today announced an annual combined pension return, net of costs, of -0.2...
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CalPERS Smears Lipstick on a Pig?
Timothy W. Martin of the Wall Street Journal reports, Calpers Reports Lowest Investment Gain Since Financial Crisis:The largest U.S. public pension posted its lowest annual gain since the last...
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PSP Investments Gains 1% in FY 2016
Rob Kozlowski of Pensions & Investments reports, PSP Investments returns 1% for fiscal year:Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Montreal, returned 1% in the fiscal year ended March 31, a news...
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Beware of a Bull Trap?
Chuck Jaffe of MarketWatch reports, Technical analyst: Is this bull market just a bull trap?:Leo Leydon of Financial Focus Advisory Services in Pembroke, Mass., says the market’s run of good days to...
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