Canadian pension funds aren’t leading on addressing climate change but they’re at least not lagging behind as much as in the past, according to new…
Meeting plan members’ retirement goals (29 per cent) and managing litigation risk (25 per cent) are the top factors driving defined contribution pension plan sponsor…
To move beyond the limitations that can arise from a domestic investment approach, there are compelling reasons for institutional investors to look beyond North America.…
The median solvency ratio of Canadian defined benefit pension plans hit its highest level since before the 2007 financial crisis, according to the latest quarterly…
Large pension plans in the United States are increasingly looking to Canadian pension funds for ideas and best practices in institutional investing, according to a…
On Jan. 1, 2016, an amendment to Ontario’s Pension Benefits Act came into effect requiring pension plans to disclose whether they incorporate environmental, social and…
As part of a new series of interviews in Benefits Canada‘s companion publication, the Canadian Investment Review, Caroline Cakebread sat down with the OPSEU pension…
The Prince of Wales’ Accounting for Sustainability project has launched a Canadian chapter of its chief financial officer network that will focus on the role…
Among the changes announced by the federal government in its budget yesterday is the cancellation of the Canada savings bond program, a savings vehicle many employers have…
The Ontario Pension Board, which administers the province’s public service pension plan, had an annual investment return of 8.1 per cent at the end of…
When Britain’s former economic watchdog, the Office of Fair Trading, published a report in 2013 about the country’s workplace defined contribution pension market, it was…
While a majority of investment professionals believe returns will be compromised due to geopolitical uncertainties, most aren’t changing their investment strategy, according to a new…
Earlier this month, about 20 teachers marched in front of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan offices to protest their plan’s investments in fossil fuel assets, particularly what they…
Global economic growth is on the rise despite market jitters over rising political risk, according to the most recent outlook from Alliance Bernstein. As the data…
OPTrust’s investment return for 2016 decreased to six per cent, compared to its return of eight per cent in 2015. Its 2016 funded status report,…
Canadian institutional investors are expanding the use of exchange-traded funds in their portfolios, using them for risk, liquidity and volatility management, according to a new…
Despite a challenging start to 2016, the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan improved its investment return to 10.4 per cent by the end of the…
More than a quarter of adults in the Netherlands smoked in 2012, according to the World Bank. And the country’s pension funds are even more…
Companies with gender diverse leadership reap many benefits including better returns on equity, according to Delaney Greig, engagement analyst at the Shareholder Association for Research…
The financial health of Canadian defined benefit pension plans improved again in February as buoyant stock markets offset the impact of moderating bond yields, according…
I recently sat down with Jim Keohane, president and chief executive officer of the $63.9-billion Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan to ask him five questions…
As it continues to build an ‘all-terrain’ portfolio, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec posted a return of 7.6 per cent in 2016. This…
Canada is lagging behind other jurisdictions in establishing a regulatory framework for due diligence around human rights in global supply chains, according to a new…
As a speaker at this spring’s Global Investment Conference, Janice Stein, founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto,…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québe and Capital régional et coopératif Desjardins have reinvested $90 million in Capital Croissance PME, a fund created to…