After a decade of neglect, Canadian innovation needs capital says OMERS' Ruffolo.
After gaining momentum earlier this year, the Canadian economy is poised to expand further, with Alberta posting the greatest growth.
Concerns over the imminent end of quantitative easing in the U.S. have left investors much less confident in the outlook for the global economy and corporate profitability, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for October.
For an investor with a primary objective of meeting future liabilities, it’s useful to build a framework for investing assets to meet those future liabilities. The first step in exploring such a framework requires an understanding of the nature of the liabilities and what economic factors can be deemed to impact the future liability cash flows.
Statistics Canada now says the economy created 42,000 jobs in July, not 200 as was stated in its report two weeks ago.
A new economic impact study finds that pension benefit expenditures provide important economic support to the American economy, including more than US$943 billion in total economic output.
Improving profit margins and firm commodity prices have led to an increase to Russell Investments’ year-end target for the S&P/TSX Composite Index to 15,300 from 13,800.
The domestic economy is forecast to expand between 2% and 2.3% this year—and the loonie will likely stop declining.
Investor confidence in global economic growth remains high even as expectations of higher short-term rates increase, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for April.
Investment managers expect further growth in the U.S. economy and do not expect that problems in emerging markets will spread to developed markets, according to a quarterly survey conducted by Northern Trust.