Norway’s largest pension fund, Kommunal Landspensjonskasse, is divesting its holdings in five oil sands companies, four of which were Canadian. KLP’s stake in Canadian firms Cenovus…
Scotiabank is providing its eligible Canadian employees with an additional two paid personal days to support their mental health. Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, the bank’s…
Women in their core working years earned on average 13.3 per cent less per hour than men in 2018, marking a 5.5 percentage point improvement…
Across Canada, innovative pension plan design options are continuing to emerge for employers considering a move away from traditional single employer, in-house defined benefit or…
Public pension plans rely on the help of investment advisory firms, but do politics play a role in which firms they choose to work with?…
Hub International Ltd. is acquiring ProCorp Financial Inc., an Ottawa-based boutique benefits and retirement consulting firm. Hugh Doyle, president of ProCorp Financial, will join Hub Ontario and…
The majority (85 per cent) of global investment professionals said responsible investing is at least somewhat important to their organization, up from 68 per cent…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is making a US$50 million equity investment in San Francisco-based electric scooter share firm Bird Rides Inc.…
Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Canada is expanding the services it offers to plan sponsors through its partnership with Homewood Health Inc. While the insurer has worked with…
While employers want workplace cultures that make employees feel good and included, gauging and quantifying that experience can be difficult. Toronto-based company Receptiviti Inc. is…
Two more organizations are joining the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan’s DBplus. The University of Saskatchewan and Federated Colleges Non-Academic Pension Plan,…
For institutional investors looking at farmland, various strategies are available that span a range of asset classes, from real assets to private equity to venture…
When sell-side stock analysts tell the public to buy, they may in fact be whispering sell to their institutional investor clients, according to a new…
SSQ Life Insurance Co. Inc. is adding pharmacogenetic testing to its group insurance offering. Pharmacogenetic testing helps determine how a person’s DNA reacts to prescription…
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is taking over Webster Ltd., an Australian agribusiness company, for A$854 million. While the PSP already owns 19.1 per cent…
The funded ratio of public pension plans in the U.S. has edged up slightly to 73 per cent in fiscal year 2018, but has been…
The majority (85 per cent) of global investment professionals said responsible investing is at least somewhat important to their organization, up from 68 per cent…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is launching a venture incubator called Koru, which aims to create, test and build scalable new digital businesses. “Koru is…
Nearly a year since the legalization of recreational cannabis, most Canadians said it’s hasn’t had an impact at work in terms of health and safety…
In the fall of 2008, James Weatherall, today a professor of logic and the philosophy of science at the University of California, Irvine, was a…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is launching a venture incubator called Koru, which aims to create, test and build scalable new digital businesses. “Koru is…
Hub International Ltd. is acquiring Saskatoon-based Regency Advisory Corp., an employee benefits consulting firm. “We continue to build on our efforts to add talented organizations like Regency to…
Fintech includes four areas, all of which are changing the financial industry in different ways. These include peer-to-peer financing, robo-advising or systematic asset management, decentralized…
When investing in Brazil, what considerations should institutional investors keep in mind? And how can the market fit into a pension portfolio? One issue to…
Canadian employers are expecting to increase base salaries by an average of 2.7 per cent in 2020, according to a new survey by Morneau Shepell Ltd. This is up from…