CPPIB launching growth equity team
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is launching a growth equity team. The team, which will be led by Leon Pedersen as managing director and…
- By: Staff
- June 2, 2022 January 12, 2023
- 12:30
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Caisse investing in pharmaceutical company, vegetable seller
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is investing in a private pharmaceutical company. The investment in the Quebec-based Corealis Pharma Inc., a company…
- By: Staff
- May 31, 2022 May 31, 2022
- 12:30
Canadian pension funds calling on Amazon to review dealings with unions
Several of Canada’s largest pension funds have backed a proposal requesting that Amazon.com Inc. review how its actions against ongoing union organizing efforts align with…
- By: Staff
- May 31, 2022 May 31, 2022
- 12:30
Coverage of the 2022 Global Investment Conference
In April, delegates joined academics, asset managers and a former Canadian Prime Minister at the Chateau Fairmont in Lake Louise, Alta., for the Canadian Investment…
- May 30, 2022 May 31, 2022
- 09:01
2022 GIC coverage: Navigating the winds of global change
As a member of the Southern Africa Committee, a group that organized international pressure on South Africa’s apartheid regime, Joe Clark learned the value of…
- By: Gideon Scanlon
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 09:00
2022 GIC coverage: A look at diversification opportunities as inflation rises
King Midas’ gold-heavy investment portfolio wasn’t built for long-term growth, rather as an effective hedge against long-term inflation. “The 150-year real return of gold has…
- By: Gideon Scanlon
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:58
2022 GIC coverage: Using robust research strategies to reveal market opportunities
Robust research on emerging trends can reveal much about future market opportunities, said Joe Faraday, director, international equities at Baillie Gifford, during his session. “I…
- By: Gideon Scanlon
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:57
2022 GIC coverage: Theory versus reality in low-volatility investing
“We all know the basic premise — that assets with more risk should generally be compensated with higher returns. The more risk you take, the…
- By: Gideon Scanlon
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:55
2022 GIC coverage: Fixed income markets keeping calm, carrying on amid global uncertainty
With increased market volatility due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, central banks in the West looking to tighten monetary policies as the world begins emerging…
- By: Lauren Bailey
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:55
2022 GIC coverage: Unpacking challenges, misunderstandings around private market allocations
In recent years, Canada’s largest pension plans have dramatically increased their allocations to private assets — and smaller plans’ sponsors are taking note. “Investors are…
- By: Gideon Scanlon
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:54
2022 GIC coverage: Relaxing constraints in liquid portfolios could lead to better investment outcomes
While institutional investors have likely relaxed leverage constraint in their private equity portfolios, they could realize better investment outcomes by taking the same approach with…
- By: Lauren Bailey
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:53
2022 GIC coverage: What regulatory hurdles are ahead for DeFi?
Regulations on emerging decentralized finance technology have proven difficult to enforce, in part because, in the world of self-fulfilling digital contracts, it isn’t always clear…
- By: Gideon Scanlon
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:52
2022 GIC coverage: Canada’s Maple 8 pension funds outperforming peers on a global scale
Canada’s Maple 8 — the country’s largest eight public pension plans that manage a total of about $2 trillion in assets — use similar governance…
- By: Lauren Bailey
- May 30, 2022 May 31, 2022
- 08:51
2022 GIC coverage: Institutional investors seeking better risk-adjusted returns should turn to emerging market debt
Canadian institutional investors should have a strategic allocation to emerging market debt, Ward Brown, fixed income portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management, explained during his…
- By: Lauren Bailey
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:50
2022 GIC coverage: A look at the five tenets of alternative investing
Groups of people spending decades wandering through deserts may need at least 10 rules to survive, but in the rough-and-tumble world of alternative investing, you…
- By: Gideon Scanlon
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:49
2022 GIC coverage: Embedding DEI into business practice removes blind spots, barriers for institutional investors
Diversity, equity and inclusion is a business imperative that has a direct impact on institutional investors’ overall performance. While investors can have the best strategy…
- By: Lauren Bailey
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:48
2022 GIC coverage: Should pension plans engage or divest from high-carbon assets?
To divest or not to divest — that was the question posed by Catherine Ann Marshall, principal consultant at RealAlts Inc, in a panel discussion…
- By: Gideon Scanlon
- May 30, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 08:47
Inflation driving interest in alternative fixed income: white paper
A high-inflation environment is pushing Canadian pension plan sponsors toward alternative sources of fixed income, according to a white paper released by Coalition Greenwich. The…
- By: Staff
- May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 13:45
OMERS enters joint venture to redevelop Berlin complex, CAAT reaches deal with CIBC Mellon
The real estate arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System is entering a joint venture to manage the Sony Centre in Berlin. The Oxford…
- By: Staff
- May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 13:15
Caisse backing McGill’s sustainable growth initiative
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is backing McGill University’s launch of a sustainable growth initiative, a program dedicated to providing businesses with…
- By: Staff
- May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022
- 13:00
OMERS’ real estate arm developing French laboratories, PSP-backed firm investing in Tokyo data centre
The real estate arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System is entering a long-term strategic partnership to develop commercial laboratories in France. In the…
- By: Staff
- May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022
- 13:00
Just 1% of institutional investors remain ESG non-adopters: survey
Only one per cent of institutional investors described their organizations as non-adopters of environmental, social and governance investing criteria, according to a survey from Capital Group. The…
- By: Staff
- May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022
- 12:30
Ontario Teachers’ real estate arm adopting carbon reduction targets
Cadillac Fairview is adopting a series of sustainable investing goals to help its portfolio achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The real estate arm of the…
- By: Staff
- May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022
- 12:30
CPPIB ends fiscal year with 6.8% return, despite final quarter contractions
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board generated returns of 6.8 per cent during its fiscal year, which ended on March 31, 2022. The institutional investor’s assets…
- By: Staff
- May 19, 2022 May 19, 2022
- 12:30
OMERS acquiring alternative energy group, AIMCO receiving shares in drilling company
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is entering a partnership to acquire a Dutch energy firm. The Algemene Pensioen Groep, a Dutch pension plan, and the…
- By: Staff
- May 19, 2022 May 19, 2022
- 12:00