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Alberta public pensions being used to prop up struggling carbon industry, union says


Provincial Politics | 207567 hits | Feb 20 7:48 am | Posted by: DrCaleb
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Alberta's largest labour organization says public-service pensions are being used to prop up the province's struggling fossil fuels industry at a time when many large investment funds are moving away from the sector.

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  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:08 pm
    Everyone who saw something like this coming when the UCP legislated the takeover of these pension funds - raise your hand . . .

  2. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:26 pm

  3. by peck420
    Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:29 pm
    The books are public.

    Post evidence.

    Hard for a shill to do that...I know.

  4. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:41 pm
    "peck420" said
    The books are public.


    Where? The last report Aimco published was 2018, that I can find.

    https://www.aimco.alberta.ca/2018-annua ... rformance/

  5. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:43 pm
    And for reference:

    More immediate are changes pending to pensions and funds for the province's teachers, nurses and other public sector employees.

    The Alberta budget, released Oct. 24, revealed these funds were expected to be transferred to the Crown corporation Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) for management.

    The move was a "hijacking," according to the Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA). The president of that organization, Jason Schilling, wrote on Twitter that making the move without consulting the ATA was "extremely disrespectful."


    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.5362076

  6. by peck420
    Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:50 pm
    Yet, you have no problems making comments on BS claims founded on the same lack of knowledge.

    AIMCo's year end is March 31. As any "Doctor" would have realized within seconds of getting to their public info pages.

    But, here you are, trying to play obtuse about it.

    Shill be shilling.

  7. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Feb 20, 2020 7:01 pm
    "peck420" said
    Yet, you have no problems making comments on BS claims founded on the same lack of knowledge.

    AIMCo's year end is March 31. As any "Doctor" would have realized within seconds of getting to their public info pages.

    But, here you are, trying to play obtuse about it.

    Shill be shilling.


    You mean you knew that information the same as I did?

    Pot, meet kettle.

    And the information is likely coming from yet another disgruntled insider. In this government, it tends to be the most accurate considering this CBC article is not the first time I've heard this story.

    Aimco is pretty good about making crappy investments based on the advice of it's patronage appointee. Losing money in the coal sector seems par for the course.

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:02 pm
    Alberta public sector pension plan fund falls $3.4B in quarter, pointing to AIMCo losses

  9. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:13 pm
    Interesting. I've observed a bunch of public sector pension funds (including my own) that are in the tank right now.

    But for my own investments I repositioned my portfolio and moved from international investments to things that were hurting but that I knew would bounce back and I'm no genius at stocks.

    Now I'm up almost 21% from my position on January 1st. It isn't magic.

  10. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:17 pm
    I am lucky in that my pension is privately managed. But the public workers I work with did not have any choice where their public pension investment went, and likely would not have chose to invest so heavily in the oil sector.

  11. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:20 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    I am lucky in that my pension is privately managed. But the public workers I work with did not have any choice where their public pension investment went, and likely would not have chose to invest so heavily in the oil sector.


    Then they're idiots. If they don't want to follow the money then they should not complain when they lose money on bullshit like solar power, wind power, GLBTQ-managed firms, Palestinian investments, and other lefty-flavored investments.

  12. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:21 pm
    Oh, my most consistent money-makers?

    Firearms manufacturers. :idea:

  13. by rickc
    Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:44 pm
    Pension? Whats a pension? :wink:



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