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A Conversation With John Graham on CPP Investments Fiscal 2023 Results

Pension Pulse

In private credit, tightening credit conditions resulting from a handful of bank failures and rescues in the United States have opened up opportunities for non-bank players like pension funds, he said. That beat the fund’s reference portfolio (an internal benchmark it sets for itself), which had a return of just 0.1

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Top Funds' Activity in Q1 2023

Pension Pulse

All this is all happening while people say they are downright miserable about the market. Even those who are active investors reflect sentiment at depressed levels. That’s fine, because the dichotomy in fact implies further market gain, says George Smith, portfolio strategist at LPL Research.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

The Big Picture

Antti Ilmanen and I wrote a paper, I forget the exact title, I think one of them was called Sin a Little, where we say, timing the market, and this applies to the bond market as well as the stock market, is an investing sin. We’re active investors. We think we make the market a more efficient place.