{"id":208868,"date":"2025-10-13T03:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208868\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:13:07","slug":"private-equitys-fall-in-returns-is-weeding-out-weaker-players-says-cdpq-chief-charles-emond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208868\/","title":{"rendered":"Private equity&#8217;s fall in returns is weeding out weaker players, says CDPQ chief Charles Emond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">PRIVATE equity is undergoing a \u201cstructural transformation\u201d where returns are being compressed and a process of \u201cnatural selection\u201d is weeding out weaker players, said Charles Emond, president and chief executive of Canada pension investment firm La Caisse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">La Caisse\u2019s portfolio comprises C$496 billion in assets, invested on behalf of 48 pensions and insurance funds and benefiting more than six million people in Quebec, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">As at end-December 2024, equities\u2019 share of<a class=\"text-verticals-btblue underline\" data-testid=\"article-annotation-link-component\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/wealth\/wealth-investing\/canadian-pension-fund-la-caisse-gears-invest-c15-billion-asia-pacific\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> asset allocation<\/a> was at 44 per cent or C$219.4 billion comprising public equities (C$129.4 billion) and private equity (C$90 billion)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRIVATE equity is undergoing a \u201cstructural transformation\u201d where returns are being compressed and a process of \u201cnatural selection\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-208868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}