Corporate Moves
Mark Machin Joins the Board of Singapore VC Firm Serendipity Capital
The former head of CPPIB finished up his final day at the pension fund last week.
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Asset Management Culture
CPPIB Chief Mark Machin Exits Amid Vaccine Uproar
The CEO of Canada’s largest pension fund traveled to the Middle East to get a shot. The plan’s credit head, John Graham, replaces him.
Asset Allocation
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Returns 5% for Quarter
Asset value rises to C$456.7 billion for Q2 of fiscal year 2021; fund names Frank Ieraci as head of active equities.
Alternatives
CPPIB Continues to Bulk Up on Renewable Energy
Canadian pension giant invests twice as much in renewable energy in 2020 as it did in 2019.
Asset Management Culture
CPPIB Taps Edwin Cass as Pension Giant’s First CIO
Canadian fund also names Deborah Orida as head of real assets.
Pensions
CPPIB Returns 3.1% in Fiscal 2020
Market downturn dampened strong first three quarters of the year for Canadian pension plan.
Pensions
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Posted Lackluster 3.6% Return in Third Quarter
Pension giant increases its net asset value to $318 billion.
Pensions
Head of Canada’s Largest Pension Warns Against Illiquid Assets
CPPIB CEO Mark Machin ‘rings the alarm bell’ about not being too invested in the asset class.
Market Moves
Canada’s CPPIB Returns 2.3% in Q2 Fiscal 2020
Total asset value of fund rises to C$409.5 billion.
Alternatives
Top Canada Pension Plan Embraces Energy, Both Fossil Fuel and Not
CPPIB is plying the oil and gas sector for investment opportunities, as well as going into renewables.
Asset Allocation
Canada’s CPPIB Doubles Renewables Investment
Fund boosts renewable energy investments 100-fold since 2016.
Risk
CPPIB Returns 8.9% in Fiscal 2019
Foreign private equities were the investment portfolio’s top-performing asset.
Newsmakers
Diversification Steers Canadian Pension Giant’s Ship into the Black
CEO Machin expects the next few years to be ‘much more challenging’ for investments.
Canadian Pension Steps Up Gender Board Diversity Advocacy
CPPIB will use its voting power to increase presence of women on boards.
Newsmakers
Canada’s Machin Staying the Course with China Despite Tension
Pension board CEO says it will stay cool-headed amid Beijing’s threats over Canadian arrest of tech heiress.