TORONTO – Navigating volatile markets will be the main challenge, said Ron Mock, who was named Tuesday to take over as president and chief executive of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in January.
Mock will replace Jim Leech, who is set to retire at the end of December after six years at the helm of one of Canada’s largest pension funds.
“We’re the lead in defined benefits pension plan business globally, and I want us to stay there,” he said Tuesday.
Mock was hired in 2001 as the director of alternative investments. He was promoted to vice-president later that year, and again to senior vice-president in 2008, taking on responsibility for fixed income assets and strategy, as well as hedge funds and alternative investments.
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“I’m looking forward to spending the next seven months with Jim prior to his retirement,” he said.
“His wisdom and guidance is going to give me a lot more insight than I may possess now.”
The fund, which manages around $129.5 billion in assets, administers the pensions of 303,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario.
Last month, Teachers’ closed its purchase of SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd., a company that leases shopping containers, in a deal valued at US$1.8 billion.
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Teachers’ earned a 13.0 per cent rate of return last year, beating its benchmark of 11 per cent by two percentage points,
The fund’s equity investments returned 14.2 per cent for the year to bring the total public and private investments in the asset class to about $59.5 billion at the end of last year compared with $51.7 billion at the end of 2011.
Meanwhile, Teachers’ Private Capital investments totalled $12.0 billion at the end of 2012 compared with $12.2 billion a year earlier and earned 18.6 per cent.
Fixed income assets totalled $60.0 billion at year end compared with $55.8 billion at the end of 2011 and returned 5.1 per cent, while commodity investments lost 1.9 per cent but the amount invested grew to $7.0 billion at the end of the year from $5.7 billion at the end of 2011.
Real assets, which included real estate, infrastructure and timberland, totalled $28.7 billion compared with $25.8 billion and earned 14.7 per cent.
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