The investment climate is looking rosier, according to a survey by Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA). According to the research, carried out in collaboration with McCarthy Tétrault LLP, there is a greater optimism regarding the investment climate in Canada for both private equity and venture capital.
Investors have, by and large, structured their portfolios around one simple belief: in the long-run, equities will always produce higher returns than safer assets.
Emerging economies are still growing faster than developed countries, so investors must seize the opportunities beyond Canada’s borders, said a panel of experts at The Economic Club of Canada’s Scotiabank Emerging Markets Forum in Toronto yesterday.
Canadian finance executives are taking an aggressive stance on business growth, according to the most recent American Express/CFO Research Global Business & Spending Monitor, a survey of 541 senior finance executives from the U.S., Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia and Australia.
China is looking to open its doors to foreign pension funds, giving them room to invest in Chinese capital markets in the future. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, notes that the new channel would be separate from the existing Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor program.
Investors remain conservative for the short term but expect improved returns over the next decade, according to a Franklin Templeton global investor sentiment survey conducted earlier this year, which polled more than 20,000 investors in 19 countries.
Four years after the credit crisis, Europe still remains in fiscal disrepair. “Europe is now the poster child for risk,” said Derek Burleton, vice-president and deputy chief economist with TD Economics, speaking yesterday at TD Asset Management’s Sharing of Knowledge Learning Series in Toronto.
The dream of a closely integrated European economy appears to be fading. Over the weekend, voters in France and Greece booted out the leaders who have struggled to contain the European sovereign debt crisis and end the Eurozone recession.
There’s nary a bull or bear to be seen on Bay Street these days. That’s because we’re in a sideways market. That was the message Kim Shannon, president and chief investment officer of Sionna Investment Managers, presented at the firm’s Financial Market Review in Toronto yesterday.
Nearly two centuries ago, China was the largest economy in the world, accounting for a third of global output. Today, the world’s oldest civilization, and the fastest growing economy, seems determined to regain its lost glory and assert its economic supremacy on world stage.
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