15th September, 2026
Canada’s push to bring more pension capital into the domestic economy has moved decisively from debate to deployment. Ontario Teachers’ and OMERS have each committed C$10 billion (US$7.2 billion), putting real money behind years of pressure for the Maple 8 to invest more at home. The 10-year record suggests that higher domestic exposure has not consistently come at the expense of total-fund returns.
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8th September, 2026
Canada’s largest public pension funds have become more exposed to the United States since Donald Trump’s November 2024 election, even as tariffs, threats against Canada and wider policy uncertainty have increased the risks attached to the market.
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13th August, 2026
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) returned 9.5% in the first half of 2026 against 4.8% at OMERS, opening a 4.7 percentage-point gap between two funds that had been almost level a year earlier. The difference reflects the way their strategies met a market led by listed equities and growth assets. OTPP had greater exposure to the areas that performed best, whereas OMERS had more capital in private assets producing lower returns.
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23rd July, 2026
A portfolio containing “Don’t Stop Believin’”, “Bad Romance” and “Livin’ on a Prayer” might sound like the soundtrack to a distressed assets meeting, but for GIC and Sony Music Group it is the background music of a royalty portfolio reportedly worth close to US$4 billion.
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17th June, 2026
Bridgewater’s fund performance has recovered under Nir Bar Dea, but state-owned investors are going in different directions as it churns out better returns for clients but weaker valuations for some owners.
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11th June, 2026
The Chief Investment Officer of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) announced today its departure from the fund, after 13.5 years at its London office. Ralph Berg will leave this month to join Temasek on July 1. OMERS’ CEO Blake Hutcheson will cover as Acting CIO, until a successor is found.
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18th May, 2026
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Public Pension Funds saw their portfolios of US Equities decrease in value significantly during the first quarter of 2026, due to the War in Iran and the subsequent effect in oil prices and global financial markets. According to the quarterly filings released by SEC this week, the average holdings of Sovereign Investors would have fallen 12% by March 31, after all investments and exits.
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5th March, 2026
The Canadian-Australian Pension Funds Investment Initiative (CAP Invest) brings together nine Australian superannuation funds and investment platforms and nine Canadian public pension organisations in a framework intended to facilitate dialogue with governments and encourage cross-border investment.
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2nd March, 2026
The first group of major sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds to report calendar year 2025 results shows that performance dispersion was primarily structural with high-equity savings funds such as Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZSuper) and Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) clustered in the mid-teens.
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9th February, 2026
The reported decision by CPP Investments and OMERS to divest their combined majority stake in Associated British Ports (ABP) represents one of the biggest potential infrastructure transactions in the UK market to date with a targeted valuation over GBP10 billion (US$13 billion). The two Canadian pension funds hold a combined stake of approximately 67% of the company, with CPP Investments owning 34% and OMERS 33%, which would net each Canadian partner stands more than US$4 billion from divestment.
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24th November, 2025
Canada’s big public funds are sitting on sizeable AI-linked positions in their US equity portfolios, which could result in losses of at least US$55 billion across the Maple 8 in the event of a dot-com-style crash – implying a direct hit on combined assets of around 2.5-3.0%, even before contagion effects are factored in.
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3rd September, 2025
Thames Water’s slow-motion crisis has become the Rorschach test for how attractive - or not - UK regulated infrastructure is to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and public pension funds (PPFs).
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