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World’s Top Pension Funds See the Largest Assets Decline in 20 Years

Pension Pulse

Willis Towers Watson put out a press release stating the world’s top pension funds see the largest assets fall in 20 years: North America now accounts for nearly half of assets in world’s 300 largest pension funds ARLINGTON, Va., increase in the assets of the largest 300 pension funds in the previous year.

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Swiss Life Asset Managers launches open-ended private infrastructure fund

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With a recommended investment horizon of at least seven years, the fund complements existing investments across asset classes like cash, bonds, equities or real estate. Billion for Australia Private Credit Fund Ares Management Corp. billion) for a credit fund for Australia and. Read more Ares Raises $1.7

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Patron Capital raises in excess of €860m for seventh fund

Private Equity Wire

Investors included pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations and family offices. Fund VII will continue the same investment strategy as Patron’s previous funds in targeting distressed and undervalued investments that are directly or indirectly related to property across Western Europe.

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AIMCo Opens Its First Asia Office in Singapore

Pension Pulse

A report by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada found that between 2003 and 2017, Canadian pension funds invested $25 billion in the region. The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has had an on-the-ground presence on the continent for over a decade, and currently has offices in Singapore as well as Hong Kong and Mumbai.

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AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall on Shadow Banks and Investing More in Canada

Pension Pulse

It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others.

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Is CPP Investments Fueling Canada's Wildfires?

Pension Pulse

Patrick DeRochie, senior manager of Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health , wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail, stating Canada is burning, so why is our national pension fund still heavily into fossil fuels?: Repeat after me: Keep your goddamn political views out of our national pension fund.

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AIMCo Opens New York Office to Expand Private Credit

Pension Pulse

I shared this on the rise of private credit: Now, I'm much more comfortable with large, sophisticated pension funds investing in Blackstone, Apollo and other large funds because they have the long investment horizon and sophistication to understand the risks involved.