{"id":272,"date":"2013-09-11T07:11:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T07:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=272"},"modified":"2013-09-11T07:13:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T07:13:39","slug":"the-power-of-pensions-funds-the-ontario-teachers-pension-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Pensions Funds: The Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension\u00a0Plan is a world class active investor. It is also one of the largest pension funds in the world.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.otpp.com\/\">http:\/\/www.otpp.com\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Based in Toronto, in the province Ontario, Canada, it looks after and pays the pensions and investment plan assets on behalf of 303,000 working and retired teachers. Incredibly only established in 1990.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian $129.5 Billion<\/strong> in net assets = <strong>US$124.9 Billion<\/strong> = <strong>\u00a379.5 Billion<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>10.1%<\/strong> Annualised rate of return since <strong>1990<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Fund:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Equities $59.5<\/strong> Canadian Dollars, <strong>47%<\/strong> of the Fund<br \/>\n<em><strong>Significant Investments<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nCamelot Group plc (<strong>UK National Lottery<\/strong>)<br \/>\nHitachi Ltd.<br \/>\nMichael Kors Holdings Ltd<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fixed Income $60<\/strong> Canada Dollars, <strong>48%<\/strong> of the Fund<br \/>\n<em><strong>Significant Investments<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nGovernment of Canada nominal and real return bonds<br \/>\nCanadian and international corporate bonds<br \/>\nU.S. treasury inflation protected securities<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commodities $7<\/strong> Canada Dollars, <strong>5%<\/strong> of the Fund<br \/>\n<em><strong>Significant Investments<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nCommodity derivatives<\/p>\n<p><strong>Real Estate $28.7<\/strong> Canada Dollars, <strong>23%<\/strong> of the Fund<br \/>\n<em><strong>Significant Investments<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nToronto Eaton Centre shopping and office complex<br \/>\nToronto-Dominion Centre shopping and office complex<br \/>\nLakewood Mall, California<br \/>\nCopenhagen Airport A\/S <em><strong>(Infrastructure)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nGCT Global Container Terminals Inc. <em><strong>(Infrastructure)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Total Assets of <strong>$127.3 billion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A long term investor, looking after the futures of Ontario&#8217;s teachers. Intersting to see that it an active investor in Infrastructure investments, an investment class that is becoming more mainstream as an underlying investment that gives stable and steady returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension\u00a0Plan is a world class active investor. It is also one of the largest pension funds in the world. [http:\/\/www.otpp.com\/] Based in Toronto, in the province Ontario, Canada, it looks after and pays the pensions and investment plan assets on behalf of 303,000 working and retired teachers. Incredibly only established in 1990. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}