Canada’s second-largest pension fund raised its portfolio’s asset value to C$424.2 billion.

The fund’s asset value rose to $254.1 billion, a big improvement from the prior-year period.

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Amid AI-mania, its dazzling earnings report further buoys the shares, and invites skepticism.

The big yield advantage they enjoyed over developed countries’ debt issues has narrowed, but EM paper retains other pluses.