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...California’s Calpers as well as state funds in Wisconsin and Texas are among the large funds already using leverage as part of their strategies....
...At least eight very large US public pension funds, including Calstrs, Calpers and state funds in Wisconsin and Texas, are using borrowed cash or other leverage strategies....
...Pension funds are backing crypto prime broker Hidden Road, a company that helps hedge funds take bigger bets on volatile digital assets....
...HAPI has accumulated $240mn in assets which are almost entirely held by the $143bn State of Wisconsin Investment Board that oversees the investment assets of the public pension plans in the midwestern state...
...Several Republicans said the US should be more vigilant about pension funds investing in Chinese funds, particularly in order to avoid enabling human rights abuses....
...But, other than the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, endowments, foundations and pensions do not appear on the list of top 100 investors in the ETF, according to Capital IQ....
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...I think in the future, more companies are going to realise that is actually a viable way of staying in markets that you don’t need to appeal to boring investors, pension funds in Seattle and Wisconsin....
...David Schilling, senior programme director at the US-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, says the first step is for institutional investors such as pension funds to put policies in place...
...And your 401(k)s [private pension plans]: throw them out the window, because you know what is going to happen,” Mr Trump said. Mr Biden defended his approach during his rally....
...“The magnitude of the crushing economic impact this virus has had on our states and residents cannot be overstated,” the governors of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan wrote in a letter to the president...
...Wisconsin and South Dakota, which both have flexible policies that allow them to cut payouts or increase contributions in a market downturn, were the only two states with fully funded pensions at 102.6 per...
...The surveyed funds were based in Europe, the US and Asia-Pacific. Nearly a quarter of respondents have $50bn in assets under management and nearly 30 per cent are public pension funds....
...It had also set up a discretionary “support fund” for the hardest hit parents....
...An eye-catching initiative agreed last year was a joint venture with RPMI Railpen, the pension fund for UK railway workers, and Wafra Capital Partners, a New York manager acting on behalf of the Public Institution...
...State pension funds have so far remained sanguine or averted their eyes. About a fifth of the state of Washington’s near $100bn pension pool is invested in private equity....
...“If I’m running a large pension fund, the last thing I want to do is own many shares in the oil industry.”...
...Meanwhile, anyone with a pension fund could be hurt, too. Financial markets have been roiled in recent weeks by fears of the developing trade war....
...Mr Morneau said “many” had already an expressed an interest, including Canadian pension funds and First Nations groups of indigenous Canadians....
...• Total required About 500bn pesos, or 2.5 per cent of GDP • Source of funds Between 340-400bn pesos redeployed from funds already allocated in the budget, including scrapping an “enormous number” of...
...• The Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico has hired Dominic Garcia as chief investment officer of the $15bn US pension plan....
...At a recruitment event in July, tradespeople from carpenters to pipeline painters demonstrated their work....
...The securities, which include catastrophe bonds and more bespoke collateralised vehicles, allow insurers and reinsurers to pass risks — often related to US windstorms — on to investors such as pension funds...
...The regents of the University of California scheme and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board also increased their hedge fund allocations by $1.2bn in the past year....
...David Villa, chief investment officer at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, the ninth largest public pension fund in the US, said the continued low rates were “equivalent to a 65 per cent tax” for...
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