{"id":50595,"date":"2015-11-11T09:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=50595"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:55:57","slug":"hedge-funds-leverage-are-hot-formula-for-canada-pension-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2015\/hedge-funds-leverage-are-hot-formula-for-canada-pension-plans.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds + Leverage Are Hot Formula for Canada Pension Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The words \u201cbold\u201d and \u201cpension fund\u201d don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>With traditionally safe pension investments such as bonds no longer yielding enough to cover obligations, a number of Canadian plans are ramping up leverage strategies &#8212; approaches intended to squeeze more profit from their investments by doubling down with debt. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-11-10\/hedge-funds-leverage-are-hot-formula-for-canada-pension-funds\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The words \u201cbold\u201d and \u201cpension fund\u201d don\u2019t 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50596,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595\/revisions\/50596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}