At the best of times, selecting an optimal asset mix for a defined benefit pension plan is challenging. The times of today are downright turbulent.…
Factors such as population demographics, productivity and geopolitics impact economic growth and, by extension, the retirement outcomes of defined contribution pension plan members over longer-term…
Representatives from six of Canada’s largest public sector pension investment organizations addressed a special parliamentary committee on Monday. The special committee on the Canada–People’s Republic…
Canadian defined benefit pension plans generated a median return of 4.23 per cent for the first quarter of 2023, according to the BNY Mellon Canadian…
The median Canadian defined benefit pension plan’s investments returned 4.2 per cent during the first quarter of 2022, according to a new report by Northern Trust…
The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is filing a shareholder proposal calling for Imperial Oil Ltd. to disclose more information about its climate risks. The…
Canadian defined benefit pension plans generated a median return of four per cent in the first quarter of 2023, up from 3.8 per cent in…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is supporting an effort to spin off the steel-making side of an investee mining company despite previously saying it…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s Asian public equity portfolios will be managed by a high conviction equities group based in Toronto. “In considering the optimal…
The College of Arts and Technology pension plan’s assets dropped 2.3 per cent while its funded ratio on a going-concern basis remained at 124 per…
The International Monetary Fund is altering its expectations for global economic growth and inflation in 2023. During a recent press conference, the United Nation’s financial agency…
The Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System is appointing Ashish Goyal as executive vice-president and head of Asia-Pacific. In the new role, he’ll oversee investments across…
The 2023 federal budget, which was announced on Tuesday, includes several initiatives related to defined benefit pension plans and the broader institutional investment sector. The…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is entering a joint venture focused on providing services to support Brazil’s transition away from fossil fuel reliance. Alongside…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is selling its stake in a scandal-ridden French home care company for €26.1 million — 6.18 per cent of the…
The market value of assets held by Canadian trusteed pension funds rose 2.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2022, hovering around $2.1 trillion, according…
Traditionally, Chinese workers have relied on two pillars of income in retirement — the basic state pension and employer-sponsored plans open to employees in certain…
The Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System is reinvesting in a U.K.-based online mental health-care company. The OMERS participated in a funding round that raised £20…
The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan and Bedford Capital are finalizing a deal to sell Edmonton-based Champion Petfoods to Ontario-based Mars Petcare Inc. Best known…
Demand for international pensions and savings vehicles is continuing to grow as employers try to optimize their benefits packages for different groups within their global…
The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is appointing Jennifer Coulson as its first global head of environmental, social and governance. In the new position, she’ll…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is appointing Maximilian Biagosch as senior managing director and global head of real assets. Biagosch joined the CPPIB in…
Several European pension plans are backing a lawsuit against Shell Corp. alleging its board is mismanaging climate risk and breaching company law. The lawsuit, launched…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is investing US$205 million as an anchor investor in IndoSpace’s new real estate fund in India. The investment marks…
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, institutional investors are increasingly factoring geopolitical risks into portfolio construction, according to John Bai, senior vice-president and…