The sentiment for investing in emerging markets in Asia has jumped significantly over the past year, from 19 in 2015 to 34 in 2016, according…
With global institutional investors expecting political and economic events to increase market volatility in 2017, many are looking to alternative assets and active management in…
Solid performance from equities and long-duration domestic bonds in the third quarter of 2016 boosted returns for Canadian defined benefit pension plans, according to a…
The outcome of the upcoming U.S. election, which will be decided this time next week, will likely affect institutional investors by determining the extent of…
Assets managed by the world’s 500 largest asset managers fell in 2015 for the first time since 2011, according to research conducted by Willis Towers…
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada has published a revised version of its instruction guide for the preparation of actuarial reports for…
Sun Life Institutional Investments (Canada) Inc. has launched a new short-term private fixed income fund for institutional investors. The fund, which will provide access to…
With the Chinese economy lagging and places like Brazil experiencing political instability, investing in companies based in developed countries that do a lot of business…
The Canadian Securities Administrators has published a notice addressing concerns raised by institutional investors over reduced access to international dealers that trade foreign currency denominated…
Despite continuing economic uncertainty, Canadian defined benefit pension plans showed returns of 2.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2016 compared to first quarter…
The investment industry likes to coin a new term, an heuristic, for each economic and market event. It referred to the BRIC countries to describe…
British Columbia Investment Management Corp. has reported a -0.2 per cent return for its fiscal year ended Mar. 31, 2016, down from a 14.2 per cent…
The median solvency ratio for Ontario’s defined benefit pension plans has risen two per cent, from 78 per cent to 80 per cent since Mar.…
Investors tend to rely too heavily on fixed income to pad returns. While it’s true we’ve been spoiled for 30 years – falling yields have…
In a year that witnessed volatile markets and a plummeting Canadian dollar, 92 per cent of the plans on Benefits Canada’s top 100 pension funds…
Pension investors have always relied on bonds as a steady source of diversification, capital preservation and a hedge for liabilities. But since the 2008 financial…
While the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s modest 3.4 per cent investment return announced last week will have minimal short-term effects, its investment income will have significant…
Despite the weak Canadian dollar, the top 40 Canadian money managers increased their pension assets by 3.2 per cent in 2015, according to Benefits Canada’s…
Despite market volatility, Ontario’s defined benefit pension plans have reported a slight improvement in their financial position in recent years, according to the Financial Services…
Vanguard Investments Canada Inc. has launched a series of 10 low-cost target retirement funds for qualified institutional investors, including plan sponsors in Canada. These funds are…
With energy prices under renewed pressure and an expected U.S. interest rate increase this month, next year will be a period of adjustment following the…
Over the next decade, 3.5 million people will reach retirement age — the biggest increase in that cohort in Canadian history. And that means trouble…
Communist leaders allowed China’s biggest corporate bond default yet on Thursday in a fresh sign of wrenching economic change as growth slows and Beijing gives…
Asset class boundaries have blurred and that means investors may need to take a different approach to asset allocation, a Unigestion report says.
Global investors are estimated to have sold US$40 billion worth of emerging market assets in the third quarter of 2015, according to the Institute of…