Leo Kolivakis's blog

Sure looks that way....

The new head of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s $10-billion private equity portfolio will have to hit the ground running when she assumes the position in mid-October.

The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Canada’s biggest pension fund manager, is going overweight commodities and energy...

"The OTPP story is over. It will take a few years for this to become obvious."

For decades, public pension funds have bankrolled the private equity industry, investing billions of dollars with large firms like Apollo Global Management and the Blackstone Group. Is this about to change in a major way?

Having just returned from Greece, I can vouch that Canada's pension system is among the world's strongest, but that doesn't mean that we can't improve it.

My meeting with Petros Christodoulou, the man in charge navigating Greece through its 300 billion euro debt storm...

Will Moody's force states to accelerate pension reforms?

"Incentives are part of total compensation and critical to the fund's long-term success as well as recruitment and retention of skilled investment professionals," Pacheco said in an e-mail.

Britain has the largest pensions gap in Europe and people need to put £10,300 a year more on average into their pension pot if they want to keep their current standard of living in retirement, new research claims.

Are "pension-protection bonds" the solution to the ongoing pension crisis? I don't think so...

It seems some large public pension funds really know what they are doing when it comes to investing in hedge funds...

You don't have to be an actuary to know that this pension plan will end badly. The technical phrase is "trending toward insolvency."

Many of America's largest pension funds are sticking to expectations of fat returns on their investments even after a decade of paltry gains, which could leave U.S. retirement plans facing an even deeper funding hole and taxpayers on the hook for huge additional contributions.

A couple of weeks ago, U2 performed in front of more than 100,000 fans at the Olympic stadium in Athens. Listen to Bono's comments on the Greek economy...