Applying environmental, social and governance filters when investing in emerging markets isn’t easy given challenges such as a lack of company transparency, varying governance structures…
Just days before Canada hosts the G7 Summit in La Malbaie, Que., a group of investors, including some of the country’s largest pension funds, has joined together with…
Why value investing works for university foundations.
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is among investors taking part in a $250-million round of financing for Tradeshift, a global supply chain digital payments company. With…
How big data can help with investment selection
Institutional investors are keeping an eye on the political instability in Italy as premier-designate Carlo Cottarelli prepares to present his ministerial picks and the market opened down…
Global institutional investors’ assets under management rose 7.3 per cent in 2017 to US$36.2 trillion, the largest increase in five years, according to the Official Monetary and…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board posted a net annual return of 11.6 per cent as the end of its fiscal year on March 31,…
Canadian defined benefit pension plans held steady in positive territory in the first quarter of 2018 with returns of 0.2 per cent, according to RBC Investor and…
Asness and Brown have hockey lessons for money managers
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. and its investment partner, Portus Retail Partners LLP, have acquired one of Belgium’s newest urban shopping centres. Docks Bruxsel, which…
Investments from pension funds accounted for 25 per cent of Canadian investment in the Asia-Pacific region between 2013 and 2017. Their share was up from…
For the first quarter of 2018, diversified pooled fund managers saw a median return of minus 0.7 per cent before management fees, according to new data…
Seasons Change — And So Do Markets
While North American investors have traditionally perceived environmental, social and governance factors as a way of injecting personal philosophy into business practices, Japan’s business community…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is acquiring a 40 per cent minority stake in European Camping Group, a provider of mobile-home holiday rentals. The company’s current…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has completed a second round of investing in its Indian-based joint strategic investment platform with the Phoenix Mills Ltd. The $185…
Following a strong 2017, the early February selloff and subsequent quick rebound, investors are rethinking their strategy as they face a mature bull market, according to a release…
Ivanhoé Cambridge, the real estate investment arm of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, has appointed Karim Habra as head of Europe, effective…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has invested approximately $26 million in Fundamentum, a venture capital fund company based in India. The initial investment is in…
Our interview with Harvard professor, Nicholas Burns.
One week, U.S. President Donald Trump is touting new tariffs for imports of steel and aluminum. Not long after, his administration is expressing optimism about…
Earlier this week, China’s parliament changed the country’s constitution to allow for current President Xi Jinping to remain in power indefinitely, rather than the traditional two five-year…
Datuk Ben Chan will be the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s regional managing director for the Asia-Pacific starting June 1, 2018. “I am thrilled to welcome…
Fundamentals should drive decision-making.