Pensions
Climate Advocacy Group Rates Canada’s Largest Pensions
From CDPQ’s B+ all the way down to AIMCo’s F, Shift graded Canadian pension funds on their decarbonization efforts—or lack thereof.
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Pensions
CPP Investments Assets Reach $490B After Big Quarterly Gain
Canada’s largest pension fund returned 3.8% last quarter and has returned 8.6% over the nine-month fiscal year-to-date period.
Pensions
Corporate Pensions Continue Funding Surplus Rise in January
Strong markets, steady discount rates push funded status higher and higher.
Pensions
Global Retirement Assets Reach $58.5T, Led by Defined Contribution Growth
The U.S. remains the biggest market, comprising 65% of AUM, according to the Thinking Ahead Institute.
Pensions
Nest to Acquire 10% Stake in IFM Investors in Alts Buildout
The U.K. pension scheme aims to invest $6.24 billion through IFM by 2030.
Pensions
Canadian Pension Funds Returned 10.6% in 2024
Institutional defined benefit plans returned 1.5% in the year’s fourth quarter, according to Northern Trust.
Newsmakers
UN Pension Seeks Deputy CIO
Applications for the role at the $95 billion Joint Staff Pension Fund’s Office of Investment Management are due by March 8.
Pensions
UK Explores Reforms Allowing Pensions to Invest Surplus Assets
The changes could unlock $200 billion that could be applied to different projects.
Asset Allocation
US Pension Plan Managers Split on Primary Benefit of Private Assets
An Ortec Finance survey sheds light on what pension fund executives expect in the coming years.
Pensions
Pension Income Contributed $1.5T to US Economic Output in 2022
Private and public sector defined benefit pension fund payments added $224.3 billion in tax revenue in the period, according to the National Institute on Retirement Security.
Asset Allocation
Largest 100 Asset Owners Manage Record $26.3T
The AUM of the largest asset owners reached a record high in 2023, jumping 12.3% from 2022, according to WTW’s Thinking Ahead Institute.
Asset Allocation
4 Danish Pensions Launch $700M Sustainable Developing Market Fund
The Danish SDG Investment Fund II will make investments in Africa, Asia and Latin America that support the green transition.
Newsmakers
UK Chancellor Plans Britain’s Biggest Pension Reforms in Decades
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves proposed the consolidation of more than 80 local government defined contribution funds into pension ‘mega-funds’ in pursuit of Canadian- and Australian-style pension investing.
Asset Allocation
Surging Domestic Equities, Bonds Buoy Canadian Pensions’ 5% Gain in Q3
The median plan’s returns rebounded from weak gains in the second quarter and negative returns a year ago.
Pensions
Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System Returns 9.07% in Fiscal 2024
The fund’s assets grew to $43.61 billion by the end of June.