Leo Kolivakis's blog

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Fund ended its fiscal year on March 31, 2011 with net assets of $148.2 billion, a gain of 12% in FY 2011. The Fund's private markets led the charge as they more than tripled their investment in Skype and made other successful strategic investments...

Forget the hype abut passive commodities indexes. In this space, you want to focus on active management...

How important is it for big funds to properly aggregate risk across all investment portfolios? How do you deal with excessive risk concentration in your personal portfolio?

It was another manic Monday with lots to cover, setting the record straight on Bill Gross, China, and the commodity selloff...

At one point, the music will stop, but for now, I agree with Britney Spears, you got to keep on dancing till the world ends. And despite what those bears on Zero Hedge think, the world isn't ending anytime soon...

Earlier this week, I had lunch with a friend of mine who is still bearish...

It's disgusting. Ratings firms got off scot-free but are pensions desperately trying to deflect attention from their own fiduciary responsibility?

NDP leader Jack Layton signalled Wednesday that pension reform will be his party's main thrust as the official Opposition, saying Prime Minster Stephen Harper is "practically alone in ignoring the looming retirement security crisis."

Ireland’s government will impose a temporary levy on domestic private pension savings to fund a jobs plan aimed at cutting unemployment and aiding the economic recovery...

Is the pension gap about to explode?

A brief intro into what top funds are doing...

Is there value in hitting a brick wall? What about in losing money?

The Supreme Court of Canada decided Thursday that the plaintiffs had legal grounds to appeal a 2007 decision that said 700,000 public servants, military and RCMP personnel were not entitled to any of the $30-billion surplus in their pension plans.

Over lunch and wine with a former boss and still friend of mine, we got talking on all sorts of topics, including corporate governance and what we value most in life...

Quebec's hedge funds are about to get a boost from some big players...