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HOOPP

Interest Rates

Investments Capital Markets Interest Rates

HOOPP’s extensive fixed income portfolio includes both nominal coupon bonds and inflation-linked bonds across the maturity spectrum. These bonds provide government-guaranteed coupon income, serve as high-quality liquid collateral to support other investment activities, and diversify the Fund’s assets.

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What sets us apart

Deep technical expertise

We combine deep technical expertise with active portfolio management to support the Fund’s long-term objectives. This approach enhances portfolio resilience and adaptability across changing market conditions.

Active, value-add strategies

We make asset-mix decisions and pursue value-add strategies based on rigorous analysis, including macroeconomic outlooks, technical signals, and quantitative research. This disciplined process guides our positioning and risk management.

Supply of high-quality collateral

Our interest rate strategy emphasizes maintaining high-quality, readily deployable collateral. This provides the flexibility to execute trades efficiently, support sophisticated investment programs, and respond quickly to evolving market conditions.

Liability-Aware Investing (LAI) and HOOPP’s Canadian Bond Portfolio

HOOPP has historically employed a Liability-Driven Investing (LDI) approach to align investment decisions and portfolio exposures with financial obligations. We have since shifted to Liability-Aware Investing (LAI). For HOOPP, LAI is a dynamic and adaptive investment approach that seeks to align our investments with our pension liabilities. The portfolio composition is structured to hedge the interest rate sensitivity of our liabilities and to generate sufficient returns to deliver on our pension promise. LAI provides more flexibility than LDI, incorporating factors including interest rates, liquidity requirements, economic growth and inflation.

HOOPP’s investments in federal and provincial bonds continue to be a core component of the Plan’s long-term LAI strategy and a direct way to support Canada’s and Ontario’s economic strength. By providing stable, long-term capital to governments, HOOPP helps fund essential public services, infrastructure and priority initiatives that benefit communities where our members live and work.

These high-quality investments anchor the Fund’s fixed income portfolio, generating stable and predictable income, reducing the sensitivity of pension liabilities to changes in interest rates and inflation, and providing high-quality collateral to support other investment activities across the broader portfolio.

For HOOPP, LAI is a dynamic and adaptive investment approach that seeks to align our investments with our pension liabilities. The portfolio composition is structured to hedge the interest rate sensitivity of our liabilities and to generate sufficient returns to deliver on our pension promise.

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Meet HOOPP’s investment leaders

Learn more about our in-house investment experts who work collaboratively to deliver retirement security to our members, today and into the future.

This document provides a simplified overview of HOOPP's benefits based on the terms of the HOOPP Plan Text at the time of publication. From time to time, HOOPP may amend the HOOPP Plan Text. In cases where the information provided in this document differs from that contained in the HOOPP Plan Text, the HOOPP Plan Text will govern. More details, including the full HOOPP Plan Text and a complete description of the Plan and its benefits, can be found on hoopp.com.