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Ontario Teachers’ boosting partnership in digital business incubator

Ontario Teachers’ boosting partnership in digital business incubator

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…

  • By: Staff
  • October 2, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 15:30
Hub acquiring Saskatchewan-based benefits consulting firm

Hub acquiring Saskatchewan-based benefits consulting firm

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…

  • By: Staff
  • October 2, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 15:00
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How fintech is changing the world of finance

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…

Pension Podcast: Challenges and opportunities for investing in Brazil

Pension Podcast: Challenges and opportunities for investing in Brazil

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…

Survey finds Canadian salaries expected to increase by 2.7% in 2020

Survey finds Canadian salaries expected to increase by 2.7% in 2020

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…

  • By: Staff
  • October 2, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 08:45
CPPIB and partner investing in office campus in California

CPPIB and partner investing in office campus in California

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has formed a joint venture with Boston Properties Inc. to develop Platform 16, a 1.1-million-square-foot Class A urban office…

  • By: Staff
  • October 1, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 15:30
Canadian DB pension solvency declined in third quarter: surveys

Canadian DB pension solvency declined in third quarter: surveys

The solvency positions of Canadian defined benefit pension plans declined slightly in the third quarter of 2019, according to new surveys from Aon and Mercer.…

  • By: Staff
  • October 1, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 15:15

Romania, Tanzania see changes in FTSE Russell’s latest country classification review

Romania will be reclassified from a frontier to a secondary emerging market and Tanzania will become a frontier market, effective September 2020, according to the…

  • By: Staff
  • October 1, 2019 January 6, 2021
  • 10:50
PSP making construction loan in D.C., Caisse taking part in sustainable rail travel proposal

PSP making construction loan in D.C., Caisse taking part in sustainable rail travel proposal

The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is closing the largest private construction loan in Washington, D.C. history alongside Hoffman-Madison Waterfront. The first phase of the wharf, a waterfront…

  • By: Staff
  • October 1, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 09:30
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Can investors get value for money with current active management fee structures?

Asset managers usually increase their profits by gathering more assets to manage, but doing so isn’t necessarily helping the institutional investors that work with them.…

  • By: Staff
  • October 1, 2019 January 5, 2021
  • 09:12
Great-West Life launching health and wellness platform

Great-West Life launching health and wellness platform

Great-West Life Assurance Co. is launching a mobile-friendly health and wellness platform with strategic features to encourage plan members to take charge of their own health. Health Connected includes digital…

  • By: Staff
  • October 1, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 09:00
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China warns U.S. investment curbs would hurt global growth

China warned the United States against trying to limit investment ties between the two countries, even as the Trump administration contradicted a report that Washington…

Institutional investors seeing potential in private assets in turbulent landscape

Institutional investors seeing potential in private assets in turbulent landscape

More than half (52 per cent) of institutional investors said they think a political or world event, such as Brexit, will impact portfolio performance over…

  • By: Staff
  • September 30, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 17:15

Editorial: Celebrating winning employers shines a light in dark times

As we come to the end of another year, we continue to confront an uncertain geopolitical landscape, with wars raging on and leaders tangled in…

Head to head: What’s riskier right now: investments in private equity or public equity?

One academic argues in favour of public equity’s transparency in a volatile economy, while another looks to private equity’s future gains. Yuanshun Li, associate professor,…

How Waterloo Regional Health Network leadership unified retirement benefits under the HOOPP to ensure equity across its workforce

When Grand River Hospital and St. Mary’s General Hospital merged in April 2025, leaders weren’t just bringing together two sites and two cultures, they also…

  • By: Sonya Singh
  • December 12, 2025 December 14, 2025
  • 08:58