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CPPIB to Aid China With Pension Reform?
Rob Kozlowski of Pensions & Investments reports, CPPIB to aid China with pension reform, other issues:Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which manages the assets of the C$287.3 billion ($217.4...
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Caisse Bets Big On India's Power Assets?
Abhineet Kumar of India's Business Standard interviewed Prashant Purker, Managing Director & CEO of ICICI Venture Funds, who said they will acquire power assets worth $3.5 billion:This month, ICICI...
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Teachers' Cuts Computer-Run Hedge Funds?
Maiya Keidan of Reuters reports, Canada public pension plan ditches 10 computer-driven hedge funds:Canada's third-largest public pension plan has halved the number of computer-driven hedge funds in its...
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Treacherous Times For Private Equity?
Devin Banerjee of Bloomberg reports, Blackstone’s Top Dealmaker Says Now Is The Most Difficult Period He's Ever Experienced:Joe Baratta, Blackstone Group LP’s top private equity dealmaker, can’t be too...
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Private Equity's Misalignment of Interests?
Sebastien Canderle, author of The Debt Trap: How leverage impacts private-equity performance, sent me a guest comment (added emphasis is mine):It usually takes a financial crisis of the magnitude...
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Much Ado About Deutsche?
Evelyn Cheng of NBC reports, How US regulators may be creating panic around Deutsche Bank:Deutsche Bank finds itself in the center of a panic, and some analysts are pointing fingers at U.S....
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Long Live the CPP!!
Last week, the Department of Finance Canada released a statement, Canadians Can Count on a Stronger, Financially Sustainable Canada Pension Plan:Helping Canadians achieve a safe, secure and dignified...
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Rhode Island Meets Warren Buffett?
Mary Childs of the Financial Times reports, Rhode Island cuts its hedge fund programme by two-thirds:Rhode Island’s pension plan has decided to cut its investment in hedge funds by two-thirds, as...
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CPPIB Chief to Testify at Parliament?
Josh Wingrove, Greg Quinn and Scott Deveau of Bloomberg report, Canada Pension chief to testify amid trillion-dollar boost:The head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will face lawmakers for...
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Can Emerging Managers Emerge?
On Wednesday, I attended the first ever cap intro emerging managers conference here in Montreal. Before covering it, let me begin with a comment which Simon Schilder recently wrote for Hedgeweek,...
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Brace For a Violent Shift in Markets?
Julie Verhage and Sid Verma of Bloomberg report, Bank of America Says We're Experiencing 'Peak' Everything and a Major Market Change Is Coming:Some of the hottest trades of the past few years could...
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The Malaise of Modern Pensions?
Jennifer Schuessler of the New York Times reports, Canadian Philosopher Wins $1 Million Prize:The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has been named the winner of the first Berggruen Prize, which is to...
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Quebec Holding Out on Pension Reform?
Paul Delean of the Montreal Gazette reports, Quebec is still holding out on pension reform:Possible changes to the Quebec Pension Plan and the merits of a trust fund for a relative on welfare were...
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The UK's Draconian Pension Reforms?
Kate McCann and Katie Morley of the Telegraph report, Government's 'draconian' pension reforms have backfired, experts warn, as OBR says changes will cost billions:George Osborne's pension reforms will...
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Are Public Pensions Bulletproof?
Mary Williams Walsh of the New York Times reports, $1.6 Million Bill Tests Tiny Town and ‘Bulletproof’ Public Pensions:Until the certified letters from Sacramento started coming last month, Loyalton,...
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Fading Risks of Global Deflation?
Enda Curran, Yinan Zhao, and Miao Han of Bloomberg report, China’s Days of Exporting Deflation May Be Drawing to a Close:One of the disinflationary pressures that’s gripped the global economy for the...
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The Fed's Game Changer?
Howard Schneider and Svea Herbst-Bayliss of Reuters report, Fed's Yellen says 'high-pressure' policy may be only way back from crisis:The Federal Reserve may need to run a "high-pressure economy" to...
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CalSTRS Cuts External Managers?
Aliya Ram of the Financial Times reports, Calstrs to pull $20bn from external fund managers:The California State Teachers’ Retirement System plans to pull $20bn from its external fund managers. The...
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Norway's GPFG to Crank Up Equity Risk?
Richard Milne and Thomas Hale of the Financial Times report, Norway’s oil fund urged to invest billions more in equities (h/t, Denis Parisien):Norway’s $880bn oil fund is being urged to invest billions...
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What's Worrying the Bank of Canada?
Barrie McKenna of the Globe and Mail reports, Bank of Canada weighs further interest-rate cut amid sluggish exports:The Bank of Canada flirted with the possibility of another interest-rate cut this...
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