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Government Operations committee The good thing for us is, as my colleague was pointing out, we are receiving net inflows, net contributions, so liquidity for us is of course something we manage. We make sure we have enough liquidity to face ongoing obligations, but with positive inflows, positive contributions,
June 7th, 2016Committee meeting
Daniel Garant
June 7th, 2016Committee meeting
Daniel Garant
Government Operations committee On New York, yes.
June 7th, 2016Committee meeting
Daniel Garant
Government Operations committee You're not, because we don't have an active position in Valeant. We own the index in some equities, but we also own a lot of private assets, like real estate, infrastructure, and so on.
June 7th, 2016Committee meeting
Daniel Garant
Government Operations committee I didn't look at that investment specifically. As I said, it's part of the index portfolio. We look at the overall return and we look at the return by categories. In this case, it would be U.S. equities.
June 7th, 2016Committee meeting
Daniel Garant
Government Operations committee In that case, yes.
June 7th, 2016Committee meeting
Daniel Garant
Government Operations committee We take care of your pension.
June 7th, 2016Committee meeting
Daniel Garant
Government Operations committee We invest in broad indices. For example, the Standard & Poor's 500 is a good reflection of the U.S. large cap market. Valeant being a publicly traded company is part of the index. You saw an illustration of the size of our portfolio in terms of U.S. equities. It's not an acti
June 7th, 2016Committee meeting
Daniel Garant
Government Operations committee Actually, you need to look at it on a global basis because, for one Valeant that goes down, you have one Apple or one Yahoo that will increase. You look at the overall valuation of the index. You can take some constituents, some companies, and some shares are going to go down and
June 7th, 2016Committee meeting
Daniel Garant
Government Operations committee The most significant risk mitigation that we use is diversification, which means basically that you put your assets in different categories. The description my colleague gave you is that we have investment in real estate, in infrastructure, in public equities and bonds, and so on
June 7th, 2016Committee meeting
Daniel Garant