OMERS Sees `Enormous' Opportunities Beyond Stock, Bond Investing

The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System has the potential to beat the markets by an average of 3 percent a year by investing in assets beyond stocks and bonds, said Satish Rai, the Canadian pension fund’s chief investment officer for public markets.

“We think the opportunities outside of public markets are enormous, and we think the opportunities are growing," Rai said Thursday in Toronto at the Sohn Canada conference presented by Capitalize for Kids. “We believe that the gap between public markets and some of the things we’re doing is approaching 300 basis points,” he said, pointing to investments in loans and structured transactions.