OTPP

Paul Traynor says UK schemes can learn a lot from the overseas experience of scheme consolidation

Major pension funds and asset managers have voted against the re-election of Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley and chairman Keith Hellawell at the company's annual general meeting on 7 September.

PP looks at the Ontario Teachers' approach to private equity

Pension funds can change the face of modern capitalism if their investment and governance structures are fundamentally redesigned.

CANADA/US - Teachers' Private Capital, a unit of the C$107.5bn ($106.4bn) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, and the $37.3bn Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois have made equity investments to finance company NXT Capital.

CANADA/US - The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in Flexera Software.

CANADA - The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) has signed up to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative (PRI).

Despite delivering strong investment returns during 2010 the C$107bn ($112.6bn) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan continues to face a C$17.2bn funding shortfall. Helen Morrissey speaks to OTPP's president and CEO Jim Leech about how the plan is addressing...

CANADA - Canadian private pension funds have hit a "tipping point" with more than half converting defined benefit plans to defined contributions for current or future employees, a Towers Watson survey found.

CANADA - The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan added C$13.3bn ($13.9bn) in investment income in 2010, the highest in its history, but continues to face severe funding woes.