With long-term investors like pension funds continuing to face challenges in measuring performance, a new paper is setting out to develop a better way to take on this task. “Traditional financial performance, as monitored and defined in the marketplace, can be rather noisy in the short and medium term,” says Ashby Monk, executive and research […]
It’s been almost a year since the OPSEU Pension Trust co-launched an investment platform, EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, which builds, owns and operates North American data centres. This was part of a partnership with Mount Elbert Capital Partners and GIC Private Ltd. And the OPTrust is still excited about the opportunities offered by data centres. […]
After over 30 years in the investment world, Bruce Heyman, former U.S. ambassador to Canada, says he never anticipated he would change careers, but when the opportunity came up to become Barack Obama’s ambassador to Canada it was too good an opportunity to turn down. Heyman says his biggest success as an ambassador was developing […]
As 2019 kicks off, what themes around environment, social and governance factors should investors be watching? According to a new MSCI Inc. report, plastic waste is one issue to keep an eye on. Plastic, one of the most produced manmade products in the world, is accumulating in landfills or other natural environments, the report noted, […]
Postmedia Network Inc. has entered an agreement to merge its pension plans with the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan. The merger of the Postmedia plans will be effective July 1, 2019, subject to approvals by the CAAT’s board of trustees and sponsors’ committee, as well as approval from Postmedia’s plan members and the Financial Services […]
In this late-cycle environment, the Hydro Québec pension plan is cautious about credit and is maintaining its liquidity, according to Jean-François Pépin, senior director of financing, treasury and pension fund at Hydro Québec. At the end of 2017, the defined benefit plan had $24.7 billion in net assets. Invested in a variety of asset classes, including […]
Although firms owned by women and minorities show performance statistically similar to the industry as a whole, they only represent 1.3 per cent of assets under management for U.S.-based mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity and real estate funds, according to new research by the Bella Research Group and commissioned by the John S. and […]
While 2018 was a strong year for de-risking among U.S. defined benefit plans sponsors, a significant portion of the more than $3 trillion in DB plan liabilities that have yet to be de-risked are expected to go through the risk transfer pipeline over the next 10 years, according to MetLife’s 2019 pension risk transfer poll. The poll […]
While the role of data in equities management is important, human expertise is still key, according to speakers at the CFA Society Toronto’s 2019 equities symposium on Jan. 22. “If you want to beat the market as an active manager you have to believe you know something that the market hasn’t incorporated into prices,” said […]
In this late-cycle environment, the Hydro Québec pension plan is cautious about credit and is maintaining its liquidity, says Jean-François Pépin, senior director of financing, treasury and pension fund at Hydro Québec. At the end of 2017, the defined benefit plan had $24.7 billion in net assets. Invested in a variety of asset classes, including fixed […]