LONDON (Reuters) – Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, one of the world’s biggest pension funds, plans to hire “extensively” in Asia and Europe over the next two years and could shift an extra C$11 billion ($8.3 billion) into infrastructure and other real assets, its chief executive told Reuters
The plan’s governance committee gave first approval to a plan that reduces the size of the investment committee and the number of meetings at its Aug. 20 meeting.
The state pension fund grew by 3.38 percent for the three months ending June 30, outpacing a national measure of 3.27-percent gain for similar funds during a volatile investment period.
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’) today announced its net assets reached $201.4 billion as of June 30, 2019, a $10.3 billion increase from December 31, 2018.
Harvard Business School professors Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim discuss the efforts of Hiro Mizuno, CIO of GPIF, the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund, one of the largest pools of capital in the world, to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio.
Rhode Island’s pension system continues to improve its relative investment performance when compared to similarly sized public pension funds, outperforming 78% of its peers in the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2019.