Peer Connections

After a successful first 6 months of membership growth, GPFA looks to strengthen the community of beneficial owners knowing that they are Better Together with a collective voice and the ability to rely upon each other for best practices and experience.

Debbie Caruso from the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) chats with Lisa Mantello from Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto about how securities lending and repo documents work when dealing with various counterparts.

Greg Corcoran chats with his colleagues Jerry May and Michael Lotko at the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) about how they approach the investment of the cash collateral associated with their securities lending program.

Steve Anderson and Rob Goobie chat about how securities financing has evolved at the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, known as HOOPP, and how their sophisticated approach to managing all financing activity in-house benefits their pensioners.

Speaking again to Dan Kiefer and Mike Johnson from CalPeRS about the market shift in collateral flexibility.

Dan Kiefer from CalPERS chats with Mark Faulkner from Credit Benchmark about credit views for non-traditional counterparts and how the peer to peer portion of the securities finance market may evolve.

Chris Benish, Ping Wong and Michael Stamm from the State of Wisconsin Investment Board review the past, present and future of securities financing activities at SWIB and discuss how peer to peer has allowed them to further optimize their counterparties.

Jerry May and Greg Corcoran from Ohio Public Employees Retirement System walk through the history and approach of securities lending at OPERS and how they constantly seek to innovate and learn from their peers.

Dan Kiefer and Mike Johnson chat about the history and evolution of the securities lending program at CalPERS, their current strategies and how peer lending fits into their model.