{"id":61529,"date":"2025-08-11T13:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61529\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:30:03","slug":"ontario-teachers-sees-2-1-return-in-first-half-amid-private-asset-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61529\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Teachers\u2019 sees 2.1% return in first half amid private asset challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Plan earned a 2.1-per-cent return on its investments in the first six months of the year, adding $6-billion of income to the fund in spite of a challenging quarter for privately owned assets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The total assets the pension plan manages increased to $269.6-billion, up $3.3-billion from the end of 2024. Teachers paid out more in benefits to retired members than it took in from new contributions by working members, offsetting some of the investments gains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Over the span of one year, to June 30, Teachers earned a 7.1-per-cent return, and on average the fund has gained 6.9 per cent annually over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Publicly traded assets, especially gold, provided most of the fund\u2019s gains in the first half of the year. Private assets such as real estate, infrastructure and private equity \u201cwere generally flat to negative in the period reflecting a challenging environment in those asset classes at present,\u201d chief executive officer Jo Taylor said in statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cThe results for the first half of 2025 show the ability of our investment portfolio to generate a positive return while maintaining a cautious position on risk given prevailing market conditions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Teachers manages pensions for about 343,000 members in Ontario, including working and retired teachers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The fund had a $29.1-billion preliminary funding surplus as of January 1, 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Plan earned a 2.1-per-cent return on its investments in the first six months of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,133,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,131,132,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-61529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-finance","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61529","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=61529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}