Caisse de depot
Guess who’s a Nexen shareholder? CPP.
And guess who loses out if the takeover deal is rejected? (You.)
Quebec’s pension fund: a proud Enbridge shareholder
In all, Quebec’s Caisse de dépôt et placement holds $5.4 billion in investments in oil-sands companies
It’s not the banks I hate, it’s their fans
$39.8 billion: That’s how much Quebec’s Caisse de dépôt et placement lost in 2008.
E pluribus CPP
My recent piece on the Caisse de debacle elicited this strange response from Erin Weir at the Progressive Economics Forum, a frequent (and friendly) critic of this page:
How ’bout them fixed election dates, eh?
Stephen Harper and Jean Charest have to be glad they got their respective re-elections settled before the worst of the recession kicked in. If recent polls are any indication, both men appear to have dodged a bullet by going into elections late last year instead of waiting for the opposition parties to force them into one.
What we can learn from the pension meltdown
Compulsory plans like the CPP expose older investors to risks they shouldn’t have to face
Rise and fall of the young fogeys
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