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AIMA’s James Burron to start new alternative investment association

The Alternative Investment Management Association’s chief operating officer James Burron is leaving the organization to start a new, “complementary” alternative investment association. After more than six years at AIMA, Burron is launching the Canadian Association of Alternative Strategies and Assets with Caroline Chow, a former AIMA associate who left the organization in December. Originally, the two intended to […]

  • January 19, 2018 September 13, 2019
  • 09:45

Fears about CPP sustainability reflect misplaced belief: CPPIB head

The large number of Canadians who fear the Canada Pension Plan won’t be around when they retire reflects a misplaced belief, said Canada Pension Plan Investment Board president and chief executive officer Mark Machin on Tuesday. Machin discussed the sustainability of the national pension plan during his keynote speech at a 2017 symposium held in Toronto by Advocis, the […]

  • November 16, 2017 September 13, 2019
  • 15:30

Why bond yields are likely to stay low

Bond yields are likely to remain low in light of the Bank of Canada’s wait-and-see-approach in its October interest rate decision, says CIBC Asset Management Inc.’s Patrick O’Toole. After two consecutive rate hikes, the Bank of Canada maintained the overnight rate at one per cent on Oct. 25, citing uncertainty around North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations […]

  • November 14, 2017 September 13, 2019
  • 10:55

Canada to get its first cryptocurrency ETF

Evolve Funds Group Inc. is aiming to offer Canada’s first cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund. In a news release, the company said it has filed a preliminary prospectus with Canadian securities regulators for a fund called Evolve Bitcoin ETF (BITS).  The fund will seek to replicate the performance of exposure to Bitcoin obtained through investments in CFE […]

  • September 25, 2017 February 16, 2021
  • 08:30

B.C. securities regulator first to register Bitcoin investment fund manager in Canada

The British Columbia Securities Commission has granted First Block Capital Inc. registration as an investment fund manager and an exempt market dealer to operate a Bitcoin investment fund. It’s the first registration of an investment fund manager in Canada solely dedicated to cryptocurrency investments. Read: What are the merits and risks of investing in Bitcoin? The […]

  • September 7, 2017 September 13, 2019
  • 09:55