The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is facing pressure to divest from companies allegedly tied to human rights abuses in China. “I have constituents of…
The Investment Management Corp. of Ontario is appointing Patrick De Roy to the newly created role of senior managing director of total portfolio and capital…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is appointing six new managing directors in its investment division. Maggie Fanari has been promoted to managing director of the teachers’ innovation platform…
Since standard banks began to shy away from their traditional financing role after the 2008 financial crisis, institutional investors have helped maintain markets by becoming…
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. is buying an 85 per cent equity stake in the Northern Courier pipeline from TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada…
Morningstar Inc. has signed a deal to buy Canadian debt-rating agency DBRS for US$669 million. The U.S. company says the combination of DBRS with Morningstar…
La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is contributing $75 million in the form of a subordinated private debt to Medavie Inc. Medavie operates Medavie Blue…
In a challenging year for global equity markets, with fixed income returns below average, the University of Toronto Asset Management Corp.’s pension portfolio returned a…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is acquiring a US$1.3 billion stake in LifeArc’s royalty interests on worldwide sales of immunotherapy drug Keytruda through its European…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is selling its stake in BluEarth Renewables Inc. to DIF Infrastructure V, a European independent infrastructure fund. The Ontario Teachers’ was…
The Canada Pension Plan fund ended its fiscal year on March 31, 2019, with net assets of $392 billion, compared to $356.1 billion at the…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, through its investment platform with port and terminal operator DP World, is taking on a 45 per…
The OPSEU Pension Trust is highlighting its responsible investing efforts in its fourth yearly report. The report’s key themes included the pension fund’s focus on better measuring…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is appointing Mark Evans as a director for a three-year term. Evans spent 15 years with Goldman Sachs Group…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and U.K.-based Lightsource BP are investing $260 million to finance a portfolio of solar assets owned and managed by Lightsource.…
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board, alongside private equity firm Lightyear Capital, is selling Advisor Group Inc. to Reverence Capital Partners. After the transaction closes in…
With a defined benefit plan closed since 1991, Husky Energy Inc. was facing a dilemma. It wanted to annuitize the plan but had active members…
In a tough year for the returns of many pension plans, the Alberta Investment Management Corp. returned an aggregate net return of 2.5 per cent…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board are part of a group investing in a new US$350-million fund focused on…
With global equities rebounding after a volatile end to 2018, Canadian defined benefit pension plans posted positive returns in the first quarter of 2019, according…
After starting to manage assets for its first two clients in July 2017, the Investment Management Corp. of Ontario has released its 2018 annual report,…
The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, along with Apax Partners, have agreed to sell Acelity Inc. and its…
With global and domestic equities rallying in the first quarter of 2019, Canadian defined benefit plan returns were lifted to 7.2 per cent in the…
The Nova Scotia Teachers’ pension plan posted a net loss in assets for 2018, down to $4.94 billion from $5.11 billion at the end of 2017.…
After a year of turbulent markets, the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan has released its 2018 annual report, noting assets held steady…