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Are Pension Funds Fiddling With Another CLO Time Bomb?

Pension Pulse

While investors have typically included other hedge funds, family offices and sovereign wealth funds, the prospect of higher yields is now luring more money that’s been traditionally risk-averse. In Europe, insurers and pension funds are restrained by regulations on how much they can allocate to these higher risk strategies.

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CPP Investments Aims to Double Credit Holdings Over Next Five Years

Pension Pulse

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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Bain Capital’s Harrington Takeover: OHA and BMO Pave the Way with $1bn Financing

Private Equity Insights

The combination of BMO’s broad investment banking platform and OHA’s private credit expertise has delivered enhanced deal flow and financing flexibility while adding value for borrowers and private equity sponsors. OHA is the private markets platform of T.

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CalPERS CIO Nicole Musicco on Bloomberg Wealth

Pension Pulse

A month ago, Eliyahu Kamisher of the Los Angels Times reported that CalPERS pension fund posts 5.8% gain in its latest fiscal year as the stock market rally and private debt buoyed the largest traditional public pension fund in the United States. pension fund, has yet to release its fiscal 2023 results.

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CPP Investments' Andrew Edgell on Private Debt's Next Stress Test

Pension Pulse

Central banks across the world continue to communicate the need to maintain restrictive monetary policy to achieve their inflation targets and that has had serious implications for the prevailing economic environment. Right now, spreads and terms on new deal flow appear attractive, so lenders are being disciplined for the most part.

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A Conversation With OTPP's CEO on Their Mid-Year Results

Pension Pulse

The growth came as the fund earned a 12-month total-fund net return of 4.8 The pension fund, which invests to pay for the retirement for 336,000 working members and pensioners, noted that as of Jan. 1 the plan was fully funded with a $17.5-billion billion funding surplus. per cent and 8.6

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BlackRock (BLK) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Through our technology partnership with Avaloq, we aim to link Aladdin Wealth and Avaloq's core banking system, which will ultimately scale both businesses and better serve joint clients. But in the meantime, central banks continue to face a sharp trade-off between living with some inflation and/or damaging economic activity.