Canadian pension funds and insurers are facing a shrinking universe of higher-quality private debt investments to lift returns in a low-yield world, as the coronavirus pandemic has crushed many businesses, while banks maintain lending to better ones.
Eight of the top publicly traded North American pipeline firms saw institutional ownership decrease during the period, with Energy Transfer again bearing the brunt of the selloff.
Hooker & Holcombe, a regional leader in employer-based actuarial, investment advisory and retirement plan consulting, has announced that Norm Yamamoto, consulting actuary and Marc Condon, pension administration consultant within the Actuarial Services Group, and Pamela Minish, Investment Advisory Group managing director, have been named shareholders of the firm.
During the two years Samantha Panchèvre (SFS ’19) served on Georgetown University’s Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility, the committee’s passivity and misguided priorities prevented it from operating as she had hoped it would.
CALGARY – The chief executive of Alberta Investment Management Corp. is expected to leave the post by next June — a few months earlier than planned before the Alberta fund manager’s investment track record came under fire earlier this year.
This October, as the U.S. stock market fell by -2.16% (as measured by the Russell 3000), the Rhode Island pension system declined by only -1.09%, benefitting from the diversification of the plan’s Back to Basics investment strategy and ending the month with $8,680,681,661 in total plan assets.