16th January, 2025
Canadian pension funds are facing fierce criticism over their billion-dollar stakes in global gas infrastructure, with climate advocates like Shift: Action for Pension Wealth labeling these investments as high-risk and out of step with the accelerating energy transition.
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10th January, 2025
In just the first two weeks of 2025, Canadian pension funds have solidified their position as global infrastructure powerhouses.
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12th December, 2024
Telecommunications infrastructure has emerged as a hotspot for sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and public pension funds (PPFs), with high-profile deals across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East underscoring the sector's growth potential.
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2nd December, 2024
Institutional investors are looking at a range of businesses exposed to energy transition, beyond simply investing in renewables and divesting from fossil fuels to “green” their portfolios - and metering solutions form a growing part of boosting operational performance and energy efficiency in the power sector.
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16th September, 2024
North American and European public pension funds are selling large chunks of their private equity holdings as secondary markets have picked up and limited partners are ramping up portfolio sales.
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14th August, 2024
The performance of Canada’s highly transparent public pension funds can serve as a barometer for trends across the global institutional investor universe, including highly opaque sovereign wealth funds.
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5th June, 2024
*Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat may be a minnow compared to its Saudi, Emirati and Qatari peers, but is swimming towards stronger currents of capital with an agreement forged with the China Investment Corporation (CIC).
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29th May, 2024
Data Centers are pivotal in the development of the digital economy – and India’s digital economy is one of the biggest growth drivers, drawing in a range of sovereign wealth funds.
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6th May, 2024
The fifth edition of the GSR Scoreboard will be released in eight weeks’ time, on Monday, July 1. Since 2020, Global SWF has issued an annual assessment of the best practices of state-owned investors around Governance, Sustainability, and Resilience.
16th April, 2024
PSP Investments’ acquisition of around 8,000 hectares of farmland in New South Wales is an example of a tide of capital by Canadian state-owned investors in Australia’s vast agricultural sector.
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13th March, 2024
Ontario Teachers’ disappointing return of 1.9% in 2023 represents a negative value add of C$15.8 billion, dragged down by poor performance in real estate and infrastructure.
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20th February, 2024
Indian highways could receive another capital boost from Canada, despite the geopolitical ructions between Delhi and Ottawa, with CDPQ among those expressing interest in acquiring a roads portfolio from India’s quasi-sovereign wealth fund, the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF).
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