On Thursday, CPPIB reported a 4.2 per cent loss, equivalent to $23 billion, for the three months ending June 30. Net assets fell to $523 billion from $539 billion, and included an influx of $7 billion from CPP contributions.
CPPIB said there was a 52 per cent increase in market volatility in the first quarter from a year earlier, with contributing factors including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, inflation, supply chain interruptions and “pandemic spark” volatility, which resulted in significant declines in global equities and bond prices.Article content
The pension management organization said positive results in the first quarter came from gains by external portfolio managers, quantitative trading strategies and investments in energy and infrastructure.
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‘Financial markets experienced the most challenging first six months of the year in the last half century, and the Fund’s first fiscal quarter was not immune to such widespread decline,’ John Graham, chief executive of CPPIB, said in a statement.