Mega Investors Sold Millions of Google Shares Just Before Stock Soared
BlackRock, J.P. Morgan and CPP Investments are among the institutional investors that potentially missed out on billions of dollars in short-term gains.
Tech stocks remained the $527.3 billion pension fund’s top holdings, led by Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple, despite dumping 22% of its Alphabet shares.
The Québec pension fund’s asset value rose to $357.5 billion.
The world’s largest endowment also bought 1 million shares of Amazon, despite cutting back sharply on Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft.
Despite a 1.6% loss in Q1, the $1.92 trillion Government Pension Fund Global returned 5.7% for the first six months of 2025.
The country’s central bank has also terminated its contracts with external managers in Israel.
Technology, data collection and better funded statuses have asset owners rethinking traditional benchmarks.