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This is your daily pension announcement. The Pension War Room™️ notes that another Heritage Savings Trust Fund Annual Report is upon us! Tomorrow morning from 9-11 AM. You can watch it through the link below. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
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The Annual Report actually has to be approved by the committee before mere citizens such as myself are allowed to peruse it. Look for high investment costs from AIMCO. Substantially higher than the 0.76% that it cost the ATRF to invest. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension #aimcofail
I thought AIMCO was supposed to save on costs? And insource from private managers? It still seems to outsource $36 billion or 40% of its public equity.
I don't know who will show up from AIMCO. Kevin is probably busy packing up his office, so don't count on him. #AbLeg
I don't know who will show up from AIMCO. Kevin is probably busy packing up his office, so don't count on him. #AbLeg
This is your daily pension announcement: Jim Keohane was appointed to the AIMCO Board! As much as I enjoy pointing out the grift at AIMCO, this is actually a great move. He is the former CEO at the Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP). #AbLeg #handsoffmypension #aimcofail
I met him once or twice at events in Toronto. He understands derivatives at an expert level and investment risk even more so. So he would be the person with the skills to steer AIMCO away from a repeat of the VOLTS fiasco. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension #volitilitybomb #aimcofail
Even better he has public sector pension plan experience, something that was seriously lacking on the board. And a serious problem as 80% of their business is pensions. So hopefully he will be able to convince Travis to reform the antique governance structure at AIMCO. #AbLeg
This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room™️steps into the toxic sludge that is the Financial Post to fish out some @MarkDWiseman hot takes! Read it and I will unpack the shit takes for you. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
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First, the facts are largely correct in this article. They fail to mention that Travis has a legislative power to issue "directives" to AIMCO. An oversite I am sure. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
Second, I am glad that he is setting up a committee to look at reputational risk for AIMCO. Their reputation has really taken a beating. I don't think he understands how much his pension clients (80% of assets) hate him and AIMCO. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
The Pension War Room™️ would like you to know that the ATA and good old yours truly have dropped a lawsuit on Travis. I am proud to be one of the applicants in this legal action. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension 
If you want more details, here is the press release from the ATA complete with pdfs of all the important documents. For those interested: fill yer boots! #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
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The legal arguments are multifaceted. And, likely not to be solved until the SCC gets involved. But, here we are taking an important step. It is my position that Travis has violated both the Teachers' Pension Plan Act and the AIMCO Act in imposing an IMA. #AbLeg #AIMCOfail
The Pension War Room™️ would like to announce another public appearance at the Standing Committee on Private Members' Public Bills. The meeting starts Monday morning at 8:00 AM, you can get the video link at this page 👇👇👇 #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
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If you can't watch live a recording will be available later in the day.
@yomeeks will be doing a stakeholder presentations on Bill 208, Alberta Investment Management Corporation Amendment Act brought forward by @SPhillipsAB. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
@yomeeks will be doing a stakeholder presentations on Bill 208, Alberta Investment Management Corporation Amendment Act brought forward by @SPhillipsAB. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
Bill 208 brings forward several changes to the AIMCO Act that are required, if not seriously overdue. It would remove the ability of TBF to issue "directives" to AIMCO. It would require the appointment of Directors to the AIMCO Board from each of the big pension plans. #AbLeg
This is your daily pension announcement: The ATRF is dropping the truth munitions! Check this shit out. Can you say boom?💣💣💣 When they say "public statements" they mean the incorrect MLA statements. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
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This is a new low for democracy. Elected officials saying things that are flat out wrong ("the GOA guarantees your pension!") or injurious to taxpayers ("the GOA assumes all unfunded liabilities!). #handsoffmypension #AbLeg
The MLAs have corrected their press lines, but not (to my knowledge) issued any retractions.
So to clarify: AIMCO broke off negotiations in November.
AIMCO is insisting on the clause that does not give ATRF full decision making control.🤮🤮
#somebullshithere #AbLeg #handsof
So to clarify: AIMCO broke off negotiations in November.
AIMCO is insisting on the clause that does not give ATRF full decision making control.🤮🤮
#somebullshithere #AbLeg #handsof
This is your daily pension announcement. Lots of you have heard back from your MLA with the the statement below👇. This one is from @JasonCoppingAB, but they are all the same. You need to go back at your MLAs HARD because this is some Stalin level disinformation. #AbLeg #abpoli
In no particular order I will run through the errors:
1. "the Alberta Government ...holds the liability of the ATRF plan.."
Absolutely, unequivocaly false. Read the Teachers' Pension Plan Act. Any liabilities are paid off 49% by the GOA/51% by the teachers. #AbLeg #abpoli
1. "the Alberta Government ...holds the liability of the ATRF plan.."
Absolutely, unequivocaly false. Read the Teachers' Pension Plan Act. Any liabilities are paid off 49% by the GOA/51% by the teachers. #AbLeg #abpoli
This is a risk shared plan, teachers pick up 51% of the financial risk. This is a benefit to the taxpayers. Not all plans in Canada are risk shared but ATRF sure as hell is.
(even the Fraser Institute admits this) #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
(even the Fraser Institute admits this) #AbLeg #handsoffmypension
This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room™️ watched the Standing Committee on the Heritage Fund with great interest. The transcript and video are available below. You get all the greats: AIMCO Kevin and TBF Athana. #AbLeg #AIMCOfail
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Question of the day goes to @SPhillipsAB who asked with a below benchmark 5 year performance, why have we paid out $57 million in pay and performance bonuses to the top 10 AIMCO execs? Performance bonuses for what? #AbLeg #handsoffmypension @premiamgmt
Remember, Heritage Fund 5 year return is 6.8%, well under the benchmark of 7.4%. We could have paid AIMCO managers to stay home for 5 years and we would have done better. #AbLeg
This is your daily pension announcement: let's see how AIMCO is doing investing the Heritage Savings Trust Fund!
The latest quarterly report is available here. It is about the same size as ATRF. So good comparison. #AbLeg #Spoileralert #handsoffmypension
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The latest quarterly report is available here. It is about the same size as ATRF. So good comparison. #AbLeg #Spoileralert #handsoffmypension
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Q2 for AIMCO returned 2.6% versus a bench of 2.1%. Not bad. The large print on the front page says the six month return is 7.7%. But it does not show the six month benchmark which was 8.8%.
That is sub-optimal performance. The value add is NEGATIVE 1.1% #thatsbad #AbLeg #notgood
That is sub-optimal performance. The value add is NEGATIVE 1.1% #thatsbad #AbLeg #notgood
What should the value add be:
"In the SIP&G, the Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance expects that the investments held by the Fund will return approximately 100 basis points, or 1% per annum, above the policy benchmark."
1% value add goal #thathurts
#AbLeg #swingandamiss
"In the SIP&G, the Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance expects that the investments held by the Fund will return approximately 100 basis points, or 1% per annum, above the policy benchmark."
1% value add goal #thathurts
#AbLeg #swingandamiss
This is your daily pension announcement. The Travis goes balls to the wall edition! It has been a busy week in pensions, so I will again dive into the dung heap with an open mouth. First up Mark (AIMCO Chair) makes a statement...#ABLeg #handsoffmypension
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This is your daily pension announcement! The other shoe has dropped edition. The ATA put out this release today. Loyal Tweeps, you know that the ATRF and AIMCO have been negotiating an Investment Management Agreement (IMA) for the last year. #ABLeg #AIMCO
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Apparently, negotiations have failed and Travis has imposed an IMA by Ministerial Order on Dec 23.
Merry F***ing Christmas! @schill_dawg essentially calls Kevin a bitch! Read it and see. #ABLeg #AIMCOfail #Christmascameearly
Merry F***ing Christmas! @schill_dawg essentially calls Kevin a bitch! Read it and see. #ABLeg #AIMCOfail #Christmascameearly
You wouldn't know that it had become law as it isn't listed with all the other Ministerial Orders on the QP website. I didn't think that was legal, to sign an MO and then keep it hidden from people like me. But, oh well. Nobody has ever accused Travis of being a genius. #ABLeg
This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room would like to thank the entire pension army as we get ready to welcome the new year! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Of course, I am still marinating in a loathsome broth, stuck on poor public policy and accountability. #ABLeg
Of course, I am still marinating in a loathsome broth, stuck on poor public policy and accountability. #ABLeg
On that note, I will again take a dip in the stinking, fetid cesspool of Alberta's public finance in the hopes of educating and inspiring. #ABLeg #travisfail
To quote a pension manager:
"In operation however, AIMCo has issues with alignment and dis-economies of scale... "
To quote a pension manager:
"In operation however, AIMCo has issues with alignment and dis-economies of scale... "
This is your second daily pension announcement! Remember when Travis said that AIMCO will save beaucoup dollars due to economies of scale? I sure do.
The AIMCO "business case" claims costs will come in below 50 bps when ATRF is subsumed. #ABLeg #bullshit #travissucks
The AIMCO "business case" claims costs will come in below 50 bps when ATRF is subsumed. #ABLeg #bullshit #travissucks
For comparison we should use CPPIB which is roughly 4 times larger than AIMCO ($410 bil vs $103 bil). Being larger with roughly the same investment operation it should have lower costs.....
...but it doesn't. Costs for CPPIB right around 90 bps. #ABLeg
...but it doesn't. Costs for CPPIB right around 90 bps. #ABLeg
That's right. Cost is roughly double. So much for economies of scale.
(This was predicted by academic research that shows dis-economies of scale kick in above $100 billion. Thank Bill Morneau for the research.)
(This was predicted by academic research that shows dis-economies of scale kick in above $100 billion. Thank Bill Morneau for the research.)
This is your daily pension announcement: I want to straighten a few details out from the functionaries not the politicians. #AbLeg #travisfail
Re-upping this for commentary that I didn't have time for:
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Re-upping this for commentary that I didn't have time for:
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First, when Kevin chortled in superiority with:
"He also argued “media reporting has dramatically overstated the extent of the losses,” stating that “realized and unrealized losses to date are approximately $2.1 billion..." #ABLeg #AIMCOfail
"He also argued “media reporting has dramatically overstated the extent of the losses,” stating that “realized and unrealized losses to date are approximately $2.1 billion..." #ABLeg #AIMCOfail
Kevin and Athana are referencing initial reports of losses that were $4 billion ...revised numbers were "only" $2 billion lost. #stillashitton #fail
Now we find out that original $4 billion came from Kevin's mouth. ($2 billion realized +$2 billion unrealized). #ABLeg
Now we find out that original $4 billion came from Kevin's mouth. ($2 billion realized +$2 billion unrealized). #ABLeg
The Pension War Room™️will celebrate throwback Thursday! Remember this witty rejoinder from Travis' Matt. #ABLeg Quote from this article. #fail
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“Government contributes to each pension plan, and so Alberta taxpayers are partners and have a vested interest in the health of the plans,” said Jerrica Goodwin, press secretary for Finance Minister Travis Toews, in a Wednesday email." #ABLeg
Sure the GOA as a MINORITY CONTRIBUTOR has a vested interest in the plan. Problem is teachers have an interest that has been totally ignored here. What kind of advice are you getting Travis? #ABLeg #AIMCOfail #milburned
This is your daily pension announcement: The Management Employees Pension Plan edition! Unlike the teachers' plan, MEPP only has one sponsor namely Travis. So he can (and does) make unilateral decisions here. (Fun fact, AIMCO managers used to be members of this plan.) ##ABleg
First important fact, is that it is almost 2021 and they have not yet posted their 2019 Annual Report. Interesting choice. If you were a member of the plan you might want to inquire as to why that is. #ABLeg #travisfail #hidesomething
Next, I know this question is on your mind, how badly did the VOLTS debacle affect MEPP? Take a look @premiamgmt it is not pretty. #ABLeg #AIMCOfail
This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room™️ declares it nonperformance day! LAPP Q2 results are out and they speak for themselves. Less than benchmark for Q2, YTD, 1 year, and 4 year. #ABLeg #AIMCOfail #milburned
The organization with the highest executive salaries seems to receive the least scrutiny. I wonder why that is?
This is perfectly predictable as the value add for the last five years was lost with the VOLTS debacle. #ABLeg
This is perfectly predictable as the value add for the last five years was lost with the VOLTS debacle. #ABLeg
The GOA seems to have repudiated joint governance. Next time (and there will be a next time) unexpected losses mount the plans should charge them to the GOA.
After all we are forced to use their investment manager. #ABLeg #riskexposure
After all we are forced to use their investment manager. #ABLeg #riskexposure
This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room is trying to make sense of reducing our already low employment standards! Our standards are so low they are almost nonexistent. The best roundup is here. #ABLeg #AIMCOfail #milburned
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In pension news Travis, who as one commentator put it, was supposed to be the adult in the room among cabinet ministers (thanks Daveberta). Well, not so much. Travis, in an email to concerned constituents, has doubled down on his pension delusions. #ABLeg #betheadult
To quote Travis: "Government has no intention of changing its policy of consolidating investment management under AIMCo. This policy will reduce costs paid by pension plans."
As I have shown so many times before, demonstrably false. #ABLeg
As I have shown so many times before, demonstrably false. #ABLeg
This is your daily pension announcement: Here is a slightly more technical hot take on what happened at AIMCO to lose $2 billion. Apparently, not learning from the mistakes of the sub-prime mortgage crisis is bad! #ABLeg
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"Value-at-risk calculations like the ones AIMCo used were partly blamed for underestimating the risks of the subprime mortgage derivatives that fueled the 2008 financial crisis, leading banks to incur far larger losses than they had expected were possible." #ABLeg #AIMCOfail
Remember the (super thin) review of the VOLTS strategy is on the AIMCO website. I am left with some questions. In particular, the review included:
This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room™️ takes a walk on the septic field of the Alberta Pension Plan.
Let me analyze and educate about some of the issues. #ABLeg #AIMCOfail
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Let me analyze and educate about some of the issues. #ABLeg #AIMCOfail
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The current UCP MLA talking points include an APP that would bring $40 billion of assets to good ol 'berta for AIMCO to manage and at lower cost to boot.
That is, of course, after a nice 'n democratic multi-million dollar referendum. #ABLeg
That is, of course, after a nice 'n democratic multi-million dollar referendum. #ABLeg
Please let me analyze the current talking points.
First, most of the assets (>50%) would be managed out of AIMCO's Toronto office, so they would not be "brought back" to Alberta. #ABLeg
First, most of the assets (>50%) would be managed out of AIMCO's Toronto office, so they would not be "brought back" to Alberta. #ABLeg
This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room™️ seeks to expand your knowledge!
I want to be clear, I don't mean to disparage AIMCO. In fact, Kevin started this with his op ed. His job as an employee is to keep AIMCO out of the news. #fail #ABLeg
I want to be clear, I don't mean to disparage AIMCO. In fact, Kevin started this with his op ed. His job as an employee is to keep AIMCO out of the news. #fail #ABLeg
In my appearance before the standing committee I was asked why ATRF had never chosen to invest with AIMCO. I ran out of time after the first part of my answer. So, in the interest of full transparency, I will give a complete answer here: #ABLeg #AIMCOfail
This is your daily pension announcement. The Pension War Room™️ has been invited!
"Alberta Legislative Assembly Committee Review of Bill 203: invitation to provide an oral presentation."
The Committee is seeking input from stakeholders...
Monday, July 6, 2020
8:30 a.m.
#ABLeg
"Alberta Legislative Assembly Committee Review of Bill 203: invitation to provide an oral presentation."
The Committee is seeking input from stakeholders...
Monday, July 6, 2020
8:30 a.m.
#ABLeg
I will attend!
Let the truth run free! I love democracy in action.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that stakeholders are being consulted for Bill 203 which undoes parts of Bill 22? Which no one was consulted on? #ABLeg #democracyishard #handsoffmypension
Let the truth run free! I love democracy in action.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that stakeholders are being consulted for Bill 203 which undoes parts of Bill 22? Which no one was consulted on? #ABLeg #democracyishard #handsoffmypension
My focus will be on the joint nature of ATRF since 1938. I will remind everyone that GOA contributes 49% teachers 51% to a plan they just took unilateral action against.
#ABLeg #handsoffmycpp
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This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room™️ has @SPhillipsAB bring the fire! Not only is the Private Member Bills committee meeting tomorrow AM, but the Public Accounts Committee is meeting too! @SPhillipsAB is the chair! Look what is on the agenda: #ABLeg
"In particular, I will be asking questions related to comparisons between ATRF’s past performance under its own management and the performance of the Local Authorities Pension Plan (LAPP), which has historically been managed by Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo)."
And "We now know that AIMCo executives stand to gain millions in bonuses from increasing the size of the organization’s portfolio, and that AIMCo pushed to take over the management of ATRF. "
I ALWAYS KNEW THIS! THANK GOD THIS SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY! #ABLeg #aimcofail
I ALWAYS KNEW THIS! THANK GOD THIS SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY! #ABLeg #aimcofail
This is your daily pension announcement. The Pension War Room™️ says WTF? Read this news release..... #AIMCOfail #ABLeg #OMG Mark Wiseman AIMCO chair? Did I read that right?
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Please, this is an announcement carefully planned for Friday at 4 PM. Travis is clear there will be no questions and no accountability on this. The good news is that Mark has no current ties to AIMCO so he will feel free to fire Kevin and the lot. #goodjob #ABLeg
But read this %&***# news release, it is suspect..... Maybe I will just give the pension army (and reporters) some questions that spring to mind...about an issue that clearly the GOA does not want to discuss. #ABLeg
