Hedge Funds + Leverage Are Hot Formula for Canada Pension Plans

  • Sticking with safe investments also risky for retirees
  • Canadian strategies producing better returns than U.S. peers
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The words “bold” and “pension fund” don’t always go together easily. Then again, neither do bold and Canada.

But Canadian public pension funds are once again employing bold strategies in a world where interest rates have remained persistently low at the very moment that aging baby boomers are increasingly drawing down their retirement funds.