John Davies, chair of the board of trustees of the Carpentry Workers’ Benefit and Pension Plans of British Columbia, gives his thoughts on alternative investment strategies. What alternatives do you hold in your portfolio? We have infrastructure, two portable alpha mandates, privately held real estate and real estate funds, mortgages [and] all the standard bond […]
Leo de Bever, CEO of Alberta Investment Management Corporation, discusses AIMCo’s evolution and the impact of the downturn on the money management industry. As a crown corporation, how is AIMCo different from other managers? We are more in line with Teachers’ or OMERS. The crown corporation structure puts us aside from the government, but we […]
British Columbia’s Minister of Finance, Colin Hansen, discusses retirement savings, healthcare issues and workforce challenges in the province. What solutions are in place to help B.C. attract and retain skilled workers? We are looking at population segments that are under-represented in our workforce. We see that new immigrants are not working to their levels of […]