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Getting to know new Provident10 CIO Michel Malo

mschmit — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:29:36 +0000

At the beginning of September, Provident10, which oversees the administration and asset management for Newfoundland and Labrador’s Public Service Pension Plan, welcomed a new chief investment officer, Michel Malo. With $6.6 billion in invested assets as of year-end 2018, Provident10 is a fairly new entity. In December 2014, the province’s government and its five largest […]

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Back to the basics on liquid alternatives

mschmit — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 04:06:05 +0000

There are many reasons for pension plans to consider exposure to liquid alternatives, but the first step is understanding the asset class. Simply, liquid alternatives are alternative assets, such as currency, commodities or emerging market debt, which are available in liquid forms, as well as alternative strategies like long-short investment strategies, says Michael Sager, vice-president […]

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A look at the TTC pension plan’s move to more illiquid assets

mschmit — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 04:58:30 +0000

Following an asset-liability matching study in early 2018, the Toronto Transit Commission Pension Fund Society is expanding its allocation to less liquid investments. The jointly sponsored pension plan, which has about $6.5 billion in assets under management, is comprised of 37 per cent fixed income, 44 per cent equities and 19 per cent real assets, […]

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