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PSP Investments returns 4.4% led by infrastructure investments

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:30:01 +0000

The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is reporting a net return of 4.4 per cent for fiscal 2023. As of March 31, 2023, the investment organization had $243.7 billion in net assets under management, up 5.7 per cent from $230.5 billion at the end of the previous fiscal year. It also reported a 10-year annualized […]

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PSP Investments analyzing environmental impact of natural resources portfolio

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:00:35 +0000

The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is engaging WSP Global Inc. to develop a consistent methodology for analyzing the environmental impact of its natural resources assets. The consultancy firm will conduct a detailed climate analysis of the portfolio, which includes more than three million hectares of land across more than 400 properties based in six countries. […]

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BCI launches timberlands management company, Ivanhoé invests in real estate technology fund

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:00:45 +0000

The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is jointly sponsoring the launch of a company managing timberland assets located in the southeastern U.S. Together with the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, the BCI will launch Caddo Sustainable Timberlands, which will manage 312,500 hectares of forests located in Texas and Louisiana. With the timberlands certified by the […]

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OTPP, PSP buying Australian energy investor; OTPP acquiring pine forests

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:00:34 +0000

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board are part of a consortium acquiring an Australian infrastructure investment fund. The consortium, which also includes KKR, paid A$5.2 billion ($4.6 billion) to acquire all outstanding equities in Spark Infrastructure. The deal has been approved by Australian regulatory authorities. Spark’s assets provide electricity […]

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PSP reporting 18.4% net return for fiscal 2021

bwolfe — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:00:20 +0000

The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is reporting a net return of 18.4 per cent in fiscal 2021. As of March 31, 2021, the PSP had $204.5 billion in net assets under management, up 20.4 per cent from $169.8 billion at the end of the previous fiscal year. The PSP also reported a 10-year annualized […]

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Calls for Canadian companies to adopt transparent, consistent climate-risk reporting

mschmit — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 05:54:03 +0000

Institutional investors, regulators and financial standard organizations are calling on Canadian corporations to adopt transparent climate-risk reporting, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. The report noted corporate directors have the legal and fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of their companies in developing strategies to address climate-related financial risks […]

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Climate change, aging population major economic factors in forecast for 2020s

mschmit — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 05:08:30 +0000

A new economic report says the next decade in Canada will increasingly be shaped by the twin forces of climate change and demographic disruption from an aging population. “By 2030, Canada’s economy could look significantly different,” says the RBC report released Monday, dubbed Navigating the 2020s. “A country whose economic identity has long been bound […]

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2019 Top 40 Money Managers Report: How plan sponsors are hedging portfolio exposure in their own sectors

mschmit — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 05:02:14 +0000

Canada’s economy is famously reliant on its rich natural resources, with a heaping helping of financial service providers thrown in for good measure. But when oil companies, mining outfits or Canadian banks are deciding how to invest the capital in their pension funds, does it make sense to steer clear of exposures that directly correlate […]

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Challenges and opportunities of investing in Brazil

mschmit — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 04:39:20 +0000

When investing in Brazil, what considerations should institutional investors keep in mind? And how can the market fit into a pension portfolio? One issue to watch is pension reform, said Heather Hagerty, a research analyst at Fidelity Investments, during the Canadian Investment Review’s podcast “Pension Passport.” “Brazil is one of only a small number of […]

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Are market conditions impacting investor allocations to alternatives?

mschmit — Thu, 09 May 2019 04:05:13 +0000

As allocations to alternative assets grow, private equity is the most popular, trailed closely by real estate according to data from Preqin for the first half of 2019. Currently 65 per cent of institutional investors hold private equity, 63 per cent own real estate and 51 per cent have hedge funds. Somewhat less popular are […]

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