The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System saw its net investment return rise to 11.5 per cent at the end of 2017, compared to 10.3 per cent at the end of 2016 and a benchmark of 7.3 per cent. Its investments generated almost $10 billion in net investment income during the year, with net assets increasing to $95 billion […]
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System has appointed Michael Ryder as a senior managing director and head of Americas for its infrastructure arm, OMERS Infrastructure. Based in New York, Ryder joins OMERS from the Blackstone Group where he was a senior managing director with Blackstone Energy Partners. In the role, he led the firm’s midstream energy and oilfield […]
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The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System’s infrastructure investment manager has changed its name to be better aligned with the pension fund. Borealis Infrastructure, which manages assets with enterprise values in excess of $2 billion, is now called OMERS Infrastructure Management Inc. Read: OMERS’ infrastructure arm invests in Thames Water “The name OMERS Infrastructure helps the […]
The private equity arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is selling a business software company to investment manager Partners Group for $1.72 billion. Founded in Britain, Civica provides software, digital solutions and technology-based outsourcing services to public and private sector organizations around the world. The pension fund acquired Civica in 2013 and will […]
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As a result of slow global growth, low interest rates and market volatility, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) saw its net investment return slide to 6.7% in 2015, down from 10% in 2014. While the pension plan’s 2015 net return for public investments was 0.7%, down from 11% in 2014, it saw the net […]