The Alberta Investment Management Corp. has acquired HSBC Bank Place and Enbridge Place in Edmonton, Alta. The investment adds more than 550,000 square feet of…
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. and the AES Corp. have agreed to acquire U.S. solar developer FTP Power LLC (sPower) from Fir Tree Partners and…
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System improved its net investment return to 10.3 per cent at the end of 2016 compared to 6.7 per cent…
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…
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,…
Last year was another significant one for the real estate market as British Columbia introduced its tax on foreign buyers and the federal government made…
With many funds considering co-investments for real estate deals, Canadian pension plans have been particularly eager to embrace the option. Globally, 19 per cent of…
The baseline prognosis for global real GDP growth in 2017 remains in the 2.5 to three per cent range, according to a new asset allocation…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has created two new funds to build on its existing offer available to Quebec-based companies. The funds —…
Target-date funds continue to be the most common default investment option offered to members of workplace capital accumulation plans, according to new research by the…
The gross income replacement level of a typical capital accumulation plan grew by one per cent in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to a…
The Canada Pension Plan fund’s net assets decreased to $298.1 billion in the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2016, compared to $300.5 billion at the end…
We know there’s a chronic mismatch between long-term investors like pension funds and, well, pretty much anyone else, including investment managers and corporations. And we know…
OPSEU Pension Trust took a step to deepen the discussion institutional investors are having about climate change by releasing its own climate change scorecard this…
More than a third (38 per cent) of assets under management in Canada incorporate a responsible investment strategy, up from 31 per cent two years…
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System will invest US$1 billion to indirectly acquire about 21 per cent of the issued and outstanding shares of Allied…
The asset-backed commercial paper crisis has finally come to a resolution this month with the restructured paper’s liquidation and many institutional investors, including some large…
Canadian pension plans should expect a decrease in returns across all asset classes and a weakening in investment opportunities in 2017, according to an economic…
Finance Minister Bill Morneau suggests the upcoming federal budget will have the room to deal with whatever economic climate may ensue as the Donald Trump administration takes…
Despite growing concern from institutional investors about the risks associated with climate change and the subsequent impact on companies in their portfolios, companies in Canada’s…
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…
The situation for Canada’s pension industry looked fairly uncertain at the beginning of 2016. A significant portion of the industry was bracing for the implementation…
How far are Canadian pension plans along on the path to de-risking? And what does the journey look like? Those were among the questions explored…
Aviva Investors has launched its multi-strategy target return private pooled fund in Canada and partnered with OPTrust, which has made the first investment into the…
Many Canadian financial services organizations do well in disclosing their direct carbon emissions, according to the 2016 rankings from ET Index Research. Manulife ranked 59th and the Canadian…