The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has added human rights as one of its focus areas for engaging with companies in which it invests. “We…
The University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto is the latest institutional investor to join the Shareholder Association for Research and Education, an organization that…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board saw a net investment return of 1.45 per cent at the end of the first quarter of its 2017 fiscal…
With the third phase of the Client Relationship Model, Phase 2 (CRM2) rules around fee disclosure in Canada now in effect and new regulatory actions…
Many people grow up with the notion that it’s not good to take risks. However, it doesn’t take too much to realize that risks are…
The Client Relationship Model is a regulatory effort designed to help clarify investment performance and costs for investors. Phase 1 What it involves: New disclosure…
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…
Sun Life Financial is tapping into the expertise of Silicon Valley through a partnership with a startup platform that incubated PayPal. The Plug and Play Tech Centre…
Low volatility continues to be the most popular smart beta strategies of institutional investors, according to FTSE Russell. The company surveyed 253 asset owners in January and February.…
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board’s net assets under management reached $116.8 billion at the of the 2016 fiscal year. Its investments generated a return…
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 the second post of a three-part series exploring the changing asset allocation among Canadian institutional investors, I examined the changing needs of pension plans…
Since the development of modern portfolio theory, many institutional investors have used mean-variance optimization techniques to help identify their appropriate asset mix. This quantitative approach…
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…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is investing 200 million euros in Eurofins Scientific, a global laboratory testing services company. Caisse describes the…
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…
Climate change and extreme weather events threaten business continuity and, by extension, cash flow across all business sectors. However, as damaging as floods, droughts, wildfires,…
Though there has yet to be a formal agreement reached on how Canada’s largest pension funds will work with the federal government to support its infrastructure agenda,…
Alberta Investment Management Corporation has entered into a strategic financing relationship with Calfrac Well Services, an Alberta-based pressure pumping services provider, on behalf of certain…
The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. (bcIMC) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 99.9 per cent stake in Glencore Agricultural Products for a consideration of…
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) has acquired a minority interest in Allflex Group from international private equity firm BC Partners. BC Partners first invested…
While divestment has been a buzzword as some investors look to make a social statement, the new frontier will instead be impact investing as responsible investing becomes more mainstream,…
While discussions continue over new requirements around environmental, social and governance factors in Ontario, OPTrust has had provisions in place since 2007, says an official at the…
The dangers of short-term corporate thinking have become something of a cause célèbre of late. In the U.S. presidential race, Hillary Clinton has proposed tax reforms to…
As debate of the merits of hedge funds as an attractive asset class for institutional investors continues, a new study has found their investment performance…