Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Caisse de depot invest &#36;1.2B in European fund
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TORONTO (CP) - Canada's two largest pension funds are jointly investing &#36;1.2 billion to launch a new European investment fund, which will provide venture capital to growing private companies as they mature beyond their startup phase.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canadians sold $1.2 billion worth of foreign securities in June, the first month since January they had done so, says Statistics Canada.
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The $36 billion Massachusetts state employees pension fund notched a 14.4 percent return in 2004, besting its own internal targets, many other public pension funds around the country, and the US stock market.
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Electricite de France said it raised 2.57 billion euros (&#36;3.17 billion) from the sale of its 2.3 percent stake in French oil company Total SA on Wednesday.
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France announced plans Tuesday to spend over 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) on tax breaks and other incentives to encourage companies to keep jobs in the country rather than going abroad.
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3 ETF sponsors offer state-specific muni funds.
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BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecommunications group, has agreed to a C$51.7 billion ($48.5 billion) offer from a group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, in what the purchasers said was the largest buyout in Canadian corporate history.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Thursday  won the backing of a key public pension fund in its  $8.8-billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O and  analysts said they expected a majority of shares to be tendered  its way ahead of a Friday deadline.
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PARIS  - China has awarded Alstom more than &#36;1.5 billion Cdn worth of contracts for trains and locomotives, the French engineering giant said Saturday on the first day of a visit there by President Jacques Chirac.
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The Ontario TeachersÂ Pension Plan agreed to buy two marine container terminals in the New York area and two in British Columbia for $2.4 billion.
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New York state&#39;s pension fund, the nation&#39;s second largest, said on Friday it plans on tendering its 2.2 million shares of PeopleSoft Inc.
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Enel SpA, Italy&#39;s biggest utility, will receive 1.9 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in investment compensation from the government and will raise additional cash from asset sales that will be used to boost dividends.
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Directors of the UK's top firms have now amassed pensions worth Â£891m, according to a survey by the TUC.
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Staff at Tesco, the UK's largest retailer, are to share a Â£148m windfall as part of its Save As You Earn scheme.
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British insurer Prudential announced a 92-percent take-up of a new share issue worth one billion pounds (1.43 billion euros, 1.85 billion dollars).
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European aircraft maker Airbus SAS said it will apply for loans of up to &#36;1.24 billion from European governments to help finance development of its planned new A350 aircraft, the Financial Times reported Friday.
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OTTAWA - Chastened by an international report slamming Canada&#39;s child care programs, provincial ministers say they expect to make significant progress this week on a deal with Ottawa to quickly pump new money into learning and care programs for