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Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan earned 11.1% return in 2021

Canadian dollars are pictured in Vancouver, Sept. 22, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

TORONTO — The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan earned a total-fund net return of 11.1 per cent last year as its net assets grew to $241.6 billion.

The pension fund manager says the result topped its benchmark which came in at 8.8 per cent for 2021 and the fund’s return of 8.6 per cent in 2020.

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Ontario Teachers’ says its public equity investments gained 9.0 per cent, while its private equity holdings rose 29.0 per cent. The fund’s fixed income holdings, which include bonds and real-rate products, lost 6.3 per cent.

Inflation sensitive investments gained 11.4 per cent and its real assets, which include real estate and infrastructure investments, rose 5.4 per cent.

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Innovation investments rose 39.0 per cent, while credit investments gained 3.5 per cent.

Ontario Teachers’ says the pension plan was fully funded as at Jan. 1, with a $17.2-billion preliminary funding surplus.

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