Via Rail’s defined benefit plan is maturing, with about 70 per cent of liabilities tied to retirees or deferred members. To adapt to this changing…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is one of the top 20 asset owners in the world, at US$283.45 billion, making it one of the…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s subsidiary, the CPP Investment Board Europe, is forming a partnership to develop logistics facilities across Europe. GLP Continental Europe…
Increasing exposure to less liquid, alternative assets like infrastructure, real estate and private equity hasn’t created difficulty for Canadian pensions in repaying creditors, according to a…
In the midst of financial literacy month, what does member education look like in a defined benefit world where members don’t have to actively make…
Increasing exposure to less liquid, alternative assets like infrastructure, real estate and private equity hasn’t created difficulty for Canadian pensions in repaying creditors, according to a…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is one of the top 20 asset owners in the world, at US$283.45 billion, making it one of the…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Brookfield Business Partners is acquiring 100 per cent of Johnson Controls’ power solutions business for about $17.5…
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. is taking a majority stake in Eolia Renovables de Inversiones, a Spanish renewable energy producer, from Oaktree Capital Management and other shareholders.…
Using a Canada-model pension plan, employees would see $5.32 in retirement income for every dollar they contribute compared to the typical $1.70 resulting from an individual approach,…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board saw a net return of 0.6 per cent for the second fiscal quarter of 2019. With a total net…
For the first time since the Financial Services Commission of Ontario began monitoring defined benefit pension solvency in 2009, the province’s DB plans posted a…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Quebec’s real estate investment arm, together with Prologis Inc., is launching a joint real estate venture in Brazil. The Prologis Brazil…
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System’s private equity arm is selling MatrixCare Holdings Inc., a health-care technology company, to ResMed Operations Inc. for about $982 million. “We first acquired…
Two of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s former managing directors are opening a new private equity firm, Peloton Capital Management. Founding managing partners Steve Faraone…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is partnering with the Creative Destruction Lab to deepen its knowledge of cutting-edge technologies. Founded by Ajay Agrawal, a…
Canadian defined benefit pension plans saw a median return of 0.42 per cent in the third quarter of 2018, according to BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s universe…
The Alberta Investment Management Corp., the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. and the Public Sector Investment Board have closed a previously announced plan to conglomerate their long-term timber…
The OPSEU Pension Trust, together with British private equity firm Three Hills Capital Partners, has invested more than $89 million into ACT Commodities. The Dutch…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Quebec is entering into an agreement with Osisko Mining Inc. to acquire 9,259,260 common shares at $2.70 per share. “We are very…
La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is launching an initiative to support the growth of companies owned by women. The program, Cheffes de…
Ivanhoé Cambridge, the real estate subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, has acquired an office building in Nanterre, France. The building,…
Pension managers’ pooled funds posted meagre returns in the third quarter of 2018, according to Morneau Shepell Ltd.’s performance universe. Markets were less synchronized during the latter…
The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan’s plan to share its expertise with as many Canadian workers as possible nabbed it the award…
Three new senior appointments at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan include new roles for Gillian Brown, Danilo Simonelli and Saurabh Rastogi. Brown will lead the pension fund’s capital markets group…