Nearly half (48 per cent) of investors disagree with the MSCI’s recent decision to add 230 Chinese A-share, large-cap equities to its broad emerging market…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec posted a 3.3 per cent average return for the first half of 2018, adding $9.8 billion since…
The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is reporting a nine per cent return for the fiscal year ending Mar. 31, 2018, a slight drop from its 12.4…
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. is investing $140 million in Brazilian private equity firm IG4 Capital’s FIP Iguá, the controlling shareholder of water and sewage holding company Iguá…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Encino Energy are acquiring Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s Utica shale oil and gas assets in Ohio for $2.6 billion. Through the jointly-formed Encino…
With the Trump administration continuing to take aim at its major trading partners, institutional money managers are warning investors to anticipate more volatility in equity markets. “A…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is providing a $200 million round of financing to Stem Inc. to finance its acquisition of artificial intelligence-driven energy storage projects in…
With the growth of investment strategies focusing on socially responsible investing, there are many angles for institutional investors to consider. A new report by Cambridge Associates indicated investors…
La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is teaming up with global investment manager AMP Capital Investors Ltd. to provide more than $657 million in…
Despite the Trump administration’s ongoing trade antics, U.S. markets appear to have calmed their jitters compared to the first quarter of 2018, but there are…
Climate Action 100+ is ramping up its action on climate change by highlighting a further 61 companies for institutional investors to focus on. The group…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is investing $250 million in Avison Young Inc. The investment will help speed up the global commercial real estate…
Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd. is forming Vergent Asset Management, an investment manager that will focus on frontier and emerging markets. Founded by…
Tensions between China and the United States are heating up as the Trump administration proposed a 10 per cent tariff on $200 billion worth of…
Some of the world’s major indexes are bringing Saudi Arabia’s public equities into the mix, a move that could alter the landscape for emerging market investments.…
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System’s real estate arm is entering into a $1 billion co-investment in a British residential company. Oxford Properties Group, along…
TD Bank Group is acquiring Greystone Capital Management Inc., the parent company of Greystone Managed Investments Inc., for $792 million. The agreement, which is subject to…
Globally, sovereign investors have enjoyed the hefty returns stemming from almost a decade of charging equity markets, but they’re set to make major moves into…
Don’t expect most assets to blow the doors off in the later half of the year, according to the latest investment outlook from GLC Asset…
Canadian defined benefit pension plans posted a higher median solvency ratio at the end of the second quarter of 2018 in comparison to earlier in…
Canada’s defined benefit pension plans saw continued improvements in their solvency positions during the second quarter of 2018, according to Mercer’s latest pension health index.…
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is joining a consortium of investors to purchase the holding company that owns the majority share of Italian pharmaceuticals group Recordati. The consortium,…
The Nova Scotia Public Service Superannuation Plan achieved a return of 5.5 per cent, net of fees, for its 2017/18 fiscal year, according to its…
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is set to become the lead investor in Tennessee-based Premise Health Holding Corp. The company, which provides on-site, community and virtual…
A recent report from the C.D. Howe Institute suggests that in addition to levying a bevy of tariffs on some of America’s biggest trading partners,…