Many pension funds have had some sort of high risk component to their portfolio. http://www.cppib.ca/News_Room/News_Releases/nr_02031001.html http://www.cppib.c

Many pension funds have had some sort of high risk component to their portfolio. http://www.cppib.ca/News_Room/News_Releases/nr_02031001.html http://www.cppib.ca/News_Room/News_Releases/nr_02031001.html talks about the CPP's, which has been going on since 2005. I'd suspect we're only starting to hear about it because it's getting into our space. Disclaimer - I work for one of OMERS other (earlier) investments. I guess we're just not "major" :P