Coverage, charts, video and research on Pension Funds for universal owners.
A sourced, dated profile of CPP Investments, which manages the Canada Pension Plan fund: its assets, mandate, independent governance, and globally diversified, in-house direct-investing strategy — the flagship of the Canadian pension model.
A sourced, dated ranking of the world's largest pension funds, led by Norway's Government Pension Fund and Japan's GPIF, with methodology, the funds that follow, and the caveats reporters and researchers need.
Public pension funds hold and invest capital against the retirement promises of public-sector and national schemes. Here is how defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans work, how they invest, and who the largest are.
A clear explainer of the Canadian pension model — the 'Maple 8,' independent governance, in-house direct investing in global private assets, and why it is the most-copied template in institutional investing.
Universal Asset Owners provides reporters with public-information-based comment and background on pension funds: the Canadian model, the move into private credit and infrastructure, defined benefit vs defined contribution, and governance.
Asset-backed retirement capital has become one of the largest pools of long-horizon money in the world.
Aging populations are a slow, certain force the universal owner cannot diversify away. What it does to liabilities, duration and returns.
Independent governance, in-house teams, and real assets. How CPP Investments and Ontario Teachers' built the template the world now copies.
Research, charts, video and podcast analysis for the institutions investing at the scale of the world.
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