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Proxies for Japanese pension funds bought a record amount of overseas bonds last month, adding to signs of robust demand for foreign debt even as local yields climbed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/08/companies/japan-pension-fund-foreign-bonds-buy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #bonds #pensionfunds

Japanese pension fund proxies buy record foreign bonds in May

Bank trust accounts bought a net ¥3.16 trillion ($19.7 billion) in May, preliminary figures from the Finance Ministry showed on Monday.

The Japan Times

Cashlesstime Jun 7

The $155 Billion Australian Giant Most People Never Talk About
https://www.cashlesstime.com/2026/06/the-155-billion-australian-giant-most.html?m=1

#Australia #AustralianEconomy #Superannuation #RetirementSavings #Investing #FinanceNews #EconomicGrowth #InfrastructureInvestment #WealthCreation #FinancialMarkets #InvestmentFunds #PensionFunds #GlobalInvesting #BusinessNews #Economy #PersonalFinance #LongTermInvesting #AustralianFinance #MarketInsights #FinancialPowerhouse

The $155 Billion Australian Giant Most People Never Talk About

Australia is home to some of the world's most recognizable industries, from mining and energy to banking and agriculture. Yet one of th...

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LinkingDot:social Jun 2

“The top investment officer of the nation’s largest teachers’ pension fund actively dissuaded state workers from divesting from underperforming and ecologically devastating #fossil_fuel investments — then went on to buy and sell more than $1 million in oil and gas stocks,”
#pensionFunds #california #FossilFuel
https://www.levernews.com/the-pension-chief-betting-on-oil-while-california-burns/?utm_medium=newsletter-email&utm_campaign=newsletter-article&ref=lever-reports-newsletter

The Pension Chief Betting On Oil While California Burns

The top investment officer of California’s massive teachers’ pension fund opposed fossil fuel divestment — then went on to trade more than $1 million in oil and gas-related stocks.

The Lever

Egberto Willies May 25

Musk’s SpaceX IPO Exposes the Billionaire Parasite Economy Threatening Workers

Musk’s SpaceX IPO could enrich insiders while workers’ retirement savings absorb the risk in another billionaire-controlled Wall Street scheme.

#401kRisk #billionaireEconomy #billionaireParasite #corporateGovernance #corporateGreed #corporatePower #dualClassShares #ElonMusk #Engineers #forcedArbitration #MuskTrillionaire #NASA #Oligarchy #pensionFunds #PoliticsDoneRight #publicScience #publicSubsidies #retirementSavings #SEC #shareholderRights #SpaceXIPO #SpaceXValuation #taxpayerFundedInnovation #Tesla #TexasCorporateLaw #WallStreet #wealthInequality #workers https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oWi

JEmphatically May 19

ICYMI: Kevin O’Leary might possibly be the most hated man in Utah right now. Read more in my newsletter.

Updated with the latest developments from Box Elder County and the Hansel Valley.

https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/opposition-mounts-as-olearys-data?r=b0efu

#pensionFunds #followthemoney #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #WonderValleyAlberta #WonderValleyUtah #Stratos #utahpolitics #cdnpoli #environment #climate #abpoli

Opposition Mounts as O’Leary’s Data Centre Approved in Drought-Stricken Utah

Written for The Energy Mix - May 14, 2026 - with bonus images, a Canada Pension Plan connection and Kevin O'Leary does not have a lot of fans in Utah right now

The Missive

Eric Maugendre about carbon May 15

Open letter for the end of French pensions’ support for fossil fuel expansion :
https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2026/05/13/open-letter-for-the-end-of-french-pensions-support-for-fossil-fuel-expansion/

#pensionFunds #savings #oilAndGas #TotalEnergies

Open letter for the end of French pensions' support for fossil fuel expansion - Reclaim Finance

In an open letter, eleven civil society organizations ask French pension bodies to stop supporting fossil fuel expansionists like TotalEnergies.

Reclaim Finance

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JEmphatically May 14

When you publish a news article and then someone reaches out to you with even more information:

Canada’s pension plan has invested $1.2 billion in the company that owns and operates the Ruby Pipeline that would supply gas to Kevin O’Leary’s Stratos AI data centre. This would give it an estimated 24.5% stake in the company, which operates 16,000 km of oil and gas pipelines and storage terminals across the United States. Alice Yang, managing director of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's "Sustainable Energies" group, also sits on the Tallgrass board. Patrick DeRochie, senior manager with Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health told The Energy Mix this is just one example he’s tracking that shows the fund is “making a big bet on gas to power data centres.”

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#pensionFunds #followthemoney #cdnpoli #environment #fossilfuels

BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻May 13

Large Pension Funds and Giant Financial Services providers seem to have cold feet re the pending SpaceX IPO....

Concerns re a lack of independence of the companies' board, adequacy of its board of directors, accounting anomalies, Musk’s involvement in politics, and business plans potentially relying on “nonexistent or speculative technologies,” all lead to a position that the era of the "blank check" for Musk must end. https://www.wired.com/story/activists-call-for-boycott-of-spacex-ipo/ #Space #SpaceX #Musk #IPO #Pensions #PensionFunds #FinancialServices #IndexFunds #Accountability #BoardofDirectors #Governance #Investing

The Japan Times May 4

African economies can meet development goals only by building stronger financial and regulatory systems that channel their substantial domestic savings away from government debt and into productive long-term investments. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/05/04/world/putting-africas-savings-to-work/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #africa #pensionfunds #insurers #banks #sovereignbonds #afdb #ghana #ivorycoast #imf #gabon #kenya

Putting Africa’s savings to work for its people

The task now is to build the architecture that channels Africa's savings into productive investments.

The Japan Times

Global News Canada Mar 30

Canadian banks, pension funds gave billions to ICE contractors, data shows
An environmental advocacy group analyzed financial data from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the private financial data firm LSEG.
#Canada #ImmigrationandCustomsEnforcement
https://globalnews.ca/news/11751185/canadian-banks-pension-funds-billions-ice-contractors/