illiquid investments – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:13:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Report calls for more illiquid assets in DC pension plans’ target-date funds https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/dc-investments/report-calls-for-more-illiquid-assets-in-dc-pension-plans-target-date-funds/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:00:23 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=142258 Diversifying target-date funds by incorporating illiquid assets — such as private equity, real estate and infrastructure — could result in a 0.15 per cent annual increase in return over a decade, according to a recent report by Georgetown University’s Center for Retirement Initiatives in partnership with CEM Benchmarking Inc. The report was authored by Angela Antonelli, a […]

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]]> 2021 DC Plan Summit: Fitting liquid alternatives into DC investment portfolios https://www.benefitscanada.com/pensions/cap/2021-dc-plan-summit-fitting-liquid-alternatives-into-dc-investment-portfolios/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:45:57 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=113379 With DC plan members facing significant hurdles in managing their own investment portfolios, what role can alternatives play in alleviating these challenges? In his session at Benefits Canada‘s 2021 DC Plan Summit, Michael Sager (pictured), vice-president of multi-asset and currency management at CIBC Asset Management Inc., set out to answer this question. Liquid alternatives became […]

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]]> British PM calling on domestic institutional investors to be more like Canadian pension funds https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/british-pm-calling-on-domestic-institutional-investors-to-be-more-like-canadian-pension-funds/ Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:00:04 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=105261 In an open letter, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak are calling on the U.K.’s institutional investors to follow the lead of Canadian and Australian pension funds by making more long-term, illiquid investments. “Currently global investors, including pension funds from Canada and Australia, are benefitting from the opportunities that U.K. […]

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]]> What are best practices for pensions investing in illiquid assets? https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/alts/what-are-best-practices-for-pensions-investing-in-illiquid-assets/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/alts/what-are-best-practices-for-pensions-investing-in-illiquid-assets/#respond Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:26:23 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/what-are-best-practices-for-pensions-investing-in-illiquid-assets/ Institutional investors have been rushing into the arms of alternative, less liquid, investments over the past two decades. But there is considerable variation in how major players approach these investments, according to a paper by Kristy Jansen a PhD-student at Tilburg University and Patrick Tuijp, a research affiliate at the University of Amsterdam. In examining […]

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