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CalPERS Goes Canadian in Private Equity?
Robin Respaut of Reuters reports, CalPERS says considering making own private equity investments:The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) on Monday said it was considering making...
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bcIMC Gains 12.4% in Fiscal 2017
Canada News Wire reports, bcIMC Reports 12.4% Annual Return For Fiscal 2017:The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (bcIMC) today announced an annual combined pension return, net of...
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HOOPP Warns of the Next Crisis?
At the end of June, The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) put out an article, Senior Poverty: The Next Crisis?:HOOPP is launching a series of articles to deepen the conversation around...
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PSP Investments Moving Into Asia?
Barbara Shecter of the National Post reports, PSP Investments seeking Asia base but London remains key hub despite Brexit fears:Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board is establishing a base in...
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OMERS Unloading UK Assets?
Simon Jessop of Reuters reports, Canadian pension funds sell Britain’s High Speed 1 rail link:Two leading Canadian pension funds have agreed to sell their stakes in Britain’s High Speed 1 (HS1) rail...
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La Caisse's Big Stake in Wind Power?
Canada News Wire reports, La Caisse acquires a 17.3% interest in Boralex Inc.:Boralex Inc. ("Boralex" or the "Company") (TSX: BLX) announced today that Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec ("la...
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The Silence of the VIX?
Earlier this week, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed of Reuters reported, Volatility plunge sends VIX index to 23-year low:Strong earnings boosted U.S. stocks on Tuesday, driving the S&P 500 to a record high while...
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Is the Maestro Wrong on Bonds?
Greg Robb of MarketWatch reports, Greenspan stresses ‘ominous’ worries about bond bubble:On Monday, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer gave a 22-page speech, with charts, trying to explain...
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CPPIB Shaking Things Up?
Shannon Bond of the Financial Times reports, Funds give WME-IMG extra punch with $1bn investment:WME-IMG has landed a $1bn investment from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and GIC, Singapore’s...
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America's Corporate Pension Disaster?
Brandon Kochkodin and Laurie Meisler of Bloomberg report, S&P 500’s Biggest Pension Plans Face $382 Billion Funding Gap:People who rely on their company pension plans to fund their retirement may...
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The Mystery of Inflation Deflation?
Kopin Tan of Barron's reports, The Baffling Mystery of Inflation Deflation:The stock market has gone more than a year without a 5% pullback, but a correction isn’t the only thing missing in action....
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When Will the Tech Bubble Burst?
Ruchir Sharma, author of “The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World,” and chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, wrote an op-ed for the New York...
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Beware of the Hyperthyroid Market?
John Mellow of CNBC reports, Recent history says buy this 200-point dip in the Dow, but some fear it's different this time:The Dow Jones Industrial average fell 204 points Thursday in its first drop of...
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CPPIB and Caisse's Performance Updates?
Jacqueline Nelson of the Globe and Mail reports, CPPIB manages gains amid global competition for ‘real asset’ investments:With record amounts of capital seeking investments around the world, the Canada...
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Companies Breaking Their Pension Promise?
Sophia Harris of CBC News reports, Is your pension safe? It may depend on what happens to your company:You diligently make contributions to your company pension plan with the assumption you'll get what...
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Top Funds' Activity in Q2 2017
David Randall of Reuters reports, Billionaire hedge-fund manager Tepper adds contrarian energy stocks:Hedge-fund manager David Tepper, known for taking positions in out-of-favor companies in his...
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Japan's GPIF Warns on Passive Investing?
James Mackintosh of the Wall Street Journal reports, World’s Biggest Pension Fund Wants to Stop Index Trackers Eating the Economy:If investors continue to pile their money into passive index-tracking,...
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Canadian Pensions on Lagging US Infrastructure?
Matt Scuffham of Reuters reports, Top Canadian investor says U.S. behind in race for infrastructure capital:The United States is lagging behind Canada in the race to attract capital for infrastructure...
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The Great CPP/ QPP Divergence?
Professors R. Kent Weaver and Daniel Béland wrote an excellent comment for Policy Options, Fork in the road for Canada and Quebec pension plans:Canada’s public pension system and the changes to it over...
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Ray Dalio on the Dangerous Divide?
Jeff Cox of CNBC reports, Ray Dalio: US most divided socially and economically since 1937:Americans are divided socially and economically in ways that have not been seen since the worst days of the...
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