This is your daily pension announcement. The Pension War Room™️celebrates irony day today as an official Alberta holiday. No richer gift of irony than Jason and Travis WRONGLY asserting that the GOA guarantees your pension then having to pay to cover AIMCO misdeeds. #ABLeg
So right now in a top secret arbitration hearing LAPP, SFPP, and PSPP are asking for compensation for the billions in loss at @aimcoinvests as a result of the VOLTS fiasco. To be precise, asking for a combined $1.33 billion dollars plus costs. Since AIMCO is owned by the GOA....
The GOA would be responsible for paying any award. Making the pension plans "whole" if you will. Remember, despite what Travis said, your pension is in no way guaranteed by the GOA but rather is guaranteed by the assets of the plan. Assets matter! #ABLeg
There is great precedent in Canada of taking investment managers to task for misconduct. What is unique here is the amount, in the billions. And, that it is three GOA entities holding another GOA entity to account. #AbLeg#grossmisconduct
Some of the secrecy is warranted. This hearing is rightly behind closed doors as AIMCO trade strategies are likely to be discussed in detail. The final decision, however, should be revealed to us peons. (I don't think it will be, but it should be.) #AbLeg
I shudder to think what the lawyers cost in this case. But given the potential of a billion dollar decision and the need to discourage AIMCO from engaging in this behavior, they are worth every cent. @ToewsforAlberta did absolutely nothing when this came to light. #AbLeg
It appears that the past strategy of stocking the @aimcoinvests Board with "highly qualified" oil and gas executives that were PCAA supporters didn't work out so well.
The Pension War Room™️ laughed so bloody hard.
Most leader candidates offered apologies. #AbLeg
“AIMCo may need to be reconstituted or we may need to take a closer look at their management if it doesn’t have the confidence of the public,” Smith said.
Too little, too late. @ToewsforAlberta skipped this event. Rightly so, as things with a large group of teachers would have gotten ugly. Really ugly. I warned Travis back in the day that taking unilateral action against someones pension would hang around his neck forever. #AbLeg
For all his fiscal conservatism, slashing millions from the education budget had no real effect on AB's bottom line. The needle only moved when oil and gas revenue started streaming in again. All those kids deprived of resources they needed. #AbLeg
This is your daily pension announcement. The Pension War Room™️reveals the 💣bombshell💣 from the @aimcoinvests Annual Report. The pension plans, presumably LAPP, SFPP, and PSPP, are suing AIMCO for $1.33 billion dollars. WOW. This is for compensation for the VOLTS losses. #AbLeg
Let me explain. Notes to these financial statements are super important where AIMCO is required to reveal **significant** financial details. One can surmise that the pension plans are alleging that @aimcoinvests was grossly negligent in executing the VOLTS strategy. #AbLeg
If you sign an investment management agreement with @aimcoinvests you agree that if you sue the you don't do it in Queen's Bench but rather you go to arbitration. So that is where we are at: as I type this in some law office in Edmonton this hearing is happening right now.
This is your daily pension announcement! The Pension War Room™️is scandalized that the former @aimcoinvests CEO Kevin's severance pay adds up to over $10 million dollars! How much do you have to hate him to pay him a cool $10 million to go away? #AbLeg
Kevin made between $2.5-$3.0 million per year at @aimcoinvests so severance of that amount might be expected since he only had a few months left on his contract. But $10 million? C'mon that is just egregious. #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
Of course @aimcoinvests is "quasi-independent" preferring to be independent on some things like executive compensation and preferring to be a government organ on other things like client relations. #AbLeg#handsoff
This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room™️again notes that @aimcoinvests does not publish a schedule of investments in their Annual Report. So you need to rely on Twitter when something goes wrong. Read it and weep. #AbLeg theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
I would also like to take this opportunity to remind you of the words of Athana Mentzelopolous Deputy Minister of Treasury Board and Finance when justifying forcing the pension plans to stick with @aimcoinvests#AbLeg (June 23, 2020)
“Bill 22 was developed to forestall the possibility that each of the pension funds could ... develop unique pension management ... capacity resulting in overlap, duplication, growing cost, elimination of existing economies of scale and potentially outsourcing outside of Alberta".
This is your daily pension announcement: As the decomposers set in on the last of Jason Kenney's government The Pension War Room™️rejoices that more Annual Reports are out! LAPP for instance. #AbLeg lapp.ca/page/annual-re…
LAPP is now 124% funded! After the good year @aimcoinvests this spells contribution rate reduction! For once in its 13 year history @aimcoinvests exceeded the return target of LAPP. Hopefully it doesn't take another 13 years for it to happen again. #AbLeg
LAPP paid @aimcoinvests $542 million to manage the investments. Almost double what they paid the year before.
This isn't necessarily a problem, as I have explained many times, the narrow cost only argument of Travis and Athans is disingenuous and wrong. #AbLeg
The Pension Hawk™️is once again circling the carrion that is Treasury Board and Finance to bring you today's announcement.
The @aimcoinvests Board used to be a pest house for PCAA connected appointees. Ah, the good 'ol boys. #AbLeg
Did they have Alberta's best interest at heart? Maybe. Were they the best for a multi-billion dollar pension fund? Nope.
Board member selection for AIMCO has certainly evolved. You wouldn't know it because Travis has not publicly talked about anything to do with it. #AbLeg
It is bad to have a board that is deeply connected to the politics of AB investing the retirement savings of workers. This process needs to be non-political.
When Rachel became Premier the Board Chair of @aimcoinvests (Mac) offered to resign. #AbLeg For example.