Here’s how Canada’s big pensions can earn the word ‘public’


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Mark Machin, President and CEO, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, speaks at the 2019 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, on April 29, 2019.LUCY NICHOLSON/Reuters Canada’s securities regulators are being told they should impose a far more rigorous disclosure regime on short-sellers that would require they provide daily updates of their short positions. Spurred by this, I’ve previously offered some thoughts on improving disclosure requirements for institutional investors’ stock ownership. Here’s another place we should reassess disclosure rules: Canada’s major public pension funds. We don’t know a whole lot about the public-company holdings of institutional investors, both in the...