AIMCo returns 12.3% in 2024, driven by public equities
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. is reporting a total fund net investment return of 12.3 per cent, roughly 1.5 per cent below its 13.8 per…
- By: Staff
- April 7, 2025 April 4, 2025
- 09:00
Top Stories in Investments
U.S. institutional investors increasing private market exposure, leaving ESG behind: report
Private equity allocations are increasing to 12 per cent in the asset mix of U.S.-based institutional investors while public equities reached 38 per cent in…
- By: Staff
- April 4, 2025 April 2, 2025
- 15:00
Top 5 HR, benefits, pension and investment stories of the week
An article on a survey that found four in 10 employees have taken mental-health leave was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this past week. Here…
- By: Staff
- April 4, 2025 April 3, 2025
- 09:00
Coverage of the 2025 DC Plan Summit
Benefits Canada celebrated the Defined Contribution Plan Summit’s 25th anniversary by looking at how the world has changed over the last quarter century, the subsequent…
- By: Benefits Canada
- April 3, 2025 April 1, 2025
- 08:00
2025 DC Plan Summit: President Trump’s pro-business agenda could boost mergers, acquisitions and public offerings
Donald Trump is poised to be the “most transformational” U.S. president due to his corporate tax rate approach and a unique deregulation plan across financial…
- By: Bryan McGovern
- April 3, 2025 April 4, 2025
- 07:59
2025 DC Plan Summit: How financial advice has evolved in 25 years of retirement savings
Over the past 25 years, the pension industry has seen many significant shifts, from defined benefit to defined contribution, from accumulation to decumulation and from…
- By: Jennifer Paterson
- April 3, 2025 April 10, 2025
- 07:58
2025 DC Plan Summit: Understanding the modern mindset for DC plan member engagement
With climate change affecting the planet and artificial intelligence disrupting the concept of work, a profound generational shift is underway in how young people are…
- By: Jennifer Paterson
- April 3, 2025 March 26, 2025
- 07:57
2025 DC Plan Summit: Revolutionizing retirement income solutions for retirees
As defined contribution plans mature, Canada is seeing the first wave of retirees that only have DC plans and plan sponsors are facing the challenges…
- By: Jennifer Paterson
- April 3, 2025 March 26, 2025
- 07:56
2025 DC Plan Summit: Governance framework at the core of CAPSA’s updated guidelines
While good governance practices must be at the core of any pension plan, intricate frameworks are designed to be proportional to the size of the…
- By: Bryan McGovern
- April 3, 2025 April 8, 2025
- 07:55
2025 DC Plan Summit: Making the case for more Canada in DC investment portfolios
Home-country bias is a conversation that ebbs and flows, with U.S. investment returns since the 2008/09 financial crisis reigniting the conversation, said Jon Knowles, institutional…
- By: Jennifer Paterson
- April 3, 2025 March 26, 2025
- 07:54
2025 DC Plan Summit: Blend of active and passive leading trends in U.S. DC investment
An emerging trend in U.S. defined contribution investment strategies is the ‘blend trend,’ which is a target-date solution that allocates to underlying building blocks that…
- By: Jennifer Paterson
- April 3, 2025 April 10, 2025
- 07:52
2025 DC Plan Summit: Aluminum tariff policy shows misguided U.S. approach against Canada
Amid all of the Canadian industries impacted by tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, targeting the production of aluminum shows a misunderstanding of the…
- By: Bryan McGovern
- April 3, 2025 April 3, 2025
- 07:50
2025 DC Plan Summit: Is there a rising tide lifting all decumulation priorities from an investment perspective?
Rather than a single defined contribution plan sponsor tackling the decumulation dilemma alone, decisions need to be reframed as a decumulation ecosystem, said Nicole Lomax,…
- By: Jennifer Paterson
- April 3, 2025 April 8, 2025
- 07:49
Estimated funded status of 100 largest U.S. DB pension plans reaches 84.7%: report
The funded status of the 100 largest U.S. defined benefit pension plans is projected to have reached 84.7 per cent as of Nov. 30, 2025,…
- By: Staff
- March 4, 2026 March 3, 2026
- 15:00
Iran conflict impacting oil prices, testing geopolitics as investment macro driver: expert
A new war breaking out in Iran is highlighting the effects of a new era of geopolitics as a recurring macro driver for institutional investors,…
- By: Bryan McGovern
- March 4, 2026 March 4, 2026
- 15:00
DB pension plan sponsors resuming de-risking plans in 2026: expert
While the Canadian pension de-risking market decreased in 2025, many plan sponsors that opted to not shed liabilities last year have simply delayed these plans…
- By: Blake Wolfe
- March 3, 2026 March 4, 2026
- 09:00
Coverage of the 2025 Investment Innovation Conference
With only a few weeks left in a year impacted by trade wars, equity concentration risk and the increased appeal of artificial intelligence opportunities, defined…
- By: The Canadian Investment Review
- January 22, 2026 January 13, 2026
- 08:00
2025 Investment Innovation Conference: Where does Canada fit in an era of anti-globalization?
The current moment is rooted in shifting ideas, characterized by the rise and fall of globalization, said Sean Speer, editor-at-large at the Hub and a…
- By: Jennifer Paterson
- January 22, 2026 January 12, 2026
- 07:59
2025 Investment Innovation Conference: Global uncertainty pushing emerging markets debt as alternative funding source
Fading developed markets bilateral aid and U.S. tariff policy is pushing emerging markets debt as an attractive alternative for growing countries, according to Yvette Babb,…
- By: Bryan McGovern
- January 22, 2026 January 16, 2026
- 07:58
CWIPP returns 9.9% in 2025
The Canada-Wide Industrial Pension Plan is reporting a 9.9 per cent investment return in 2025, pushing total assets to $1.074 billion. The growth was driven…
- By: Staff
- March 2, 2026 March 4, 2026
- 15:00
Pension Awareness Day 2026: FSRA highlighting plan member education, retirement readiness
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario is marking its fourth annual Pension Awareness Day today by encouraging employees to understand their employer-sponsored retirement plan…
- By: Blake Wolfe
- February 19, 2026 February 18, 2026
- 09:00
FSRA releases final guidance on Ontario’s target-benefit pension plan framework
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario’s supervisory guidance on the province’s target-benefit pension plan framework is now finalized. The guidance, which will be reviewed…
- By: Staff
- February 17, 2026 February 13, 2026
- 09:00
Strong equity markets boosting CAP outcomes in Q4 2025: report
Strong equity markets, supported by two additional U.S. Federal Reserve rate cuts and continued momentum across sectors related to artificial intelligence, strengthened retirement income outcomes…
- By: Staff
- February 25, 2026 February 23, 2026
- 09:00
41% of Canadian employees believe their contributions will be enough for retirement: survey
Nearly half (48 per cent) of Canadian employees are contributing as much as they can afford to their workplace retirement plans, but only 41 per…
- By: Staff
- February 24, 2026 February 23, 2026
- 09:00
Global pension assets rise 9.6% year over year, driven by DC plans: report
Global pension assets reached a record US$68.3 trillion in 2025, rising 9.6 per cent year over year, with defined contribution savings continuing to drive growth,…
- By: Staff
- February 12, 2026 February 9, 2026
- 15:00
Expert panel: Diversification, flexibility steering institutional investors amid ongoing volatility
The last decade has seen seismic shifts in geopolitical, macroeconomic, capital market and technological trends. Today, uncertainty abounds: U.S. policy has become increasingly erratic, and…
- By: Bert Clark
- February 26, 2026 February 24, 2026
- 11:00
OMERS returns 6%, improves funded status in 2025: report
The Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System earned a six per cent net investment return in 2025, generating $8.2 billion in net investment income, according to…
- By: Staff
- February 26, 2026 February 25, 2026
- 09:00
Caisse returns 9.3% in 2025 amid geopolitical volatility: report
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec returned 9.3 per cent for 2025, below its benchmark portfolio’s 10.9 per cent return, according to the…
- By: Staff
- February 26, 2026 February 26, 2026
- 09:00
CPP Investments appointing David Colla as senior managing director, global head of credit investments
CPP Investments is appointing David Colla as senior managing director and global head of credit investments, effective April 1, 2026. Colla joined CPP Investments in…
- By: Staff
- March 3, 2026 March 3, 2026
- 09:00
Ontario Teachers’ increasing investments in climate assets to $70 billion by 2030
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is aiming to increase its investments in private climate transition assets to $70 billion by 2030, as part of the…
- By: Staff
- February 23, 2026 February 20, 2026
- 09:00
Caisse-backed Toronto real estate development fully leased, HOOPP portfolio properties achieve green certification
The second phase of a Toronto office property that was co-developed by the real estate arm of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec…
- By: Staff
- February 20, 2026 February 20, 2026
- 15:00
UPP pursuing industrial European real estate through joint venture, Caisse selling 11% in Quebec telecommunications operator shares
The University Pension Plan Ontario is creating a joint venture with Schroders Capital to invest in high-quality logistics and industrial real estate across northwestern Europe.…
- By: Staff
- February 6, 2026 February 6, 2026
- 15:00
How biodiversity protection impacts investment assets
Environmental conservation can play a significant role in the evaluation of an investment asset and its future progress, according to a new study co-authored by…
- By: Bryan McGovern
- February 3, 2026 February 2, 2026
- 11:00
2025 Investment Innovation Conference: How CPP Investments is balancing innovation and stability
CPP Investments’ chief executive officer has described the organization as a supertanker, referring to scale — a portfolio approaching $800 billion — and the inability…
- By: Jennifer Paterson
- January 22, 2026 January 16, 2026
- 07:55
U.S. tariffs, AI impacting institutional investors in 2026: report
U.S. tariff rates, global trade relationships and growing opportunities in artificial intelligence are among the key factors impacting institutional investors in 2026, according to a…
- By: Staff
- February 19, 2026 February 17, 2026
- 11:00
CPP Investments returns 0.5% in “volatile” Q3 2026
CPP Investments says it had a net return of 0.5 per cent in its third quarter for a growth rate well below its longer-term track…
- By: The Canadian Press
- February 13, 2026 February 13, 2026
- 15:00
Canadian pension risk transfer market declines 40% in 2025: report
After a record-setting 2024, the Canadian group annuity purchase market experienced a moderate slowdown in 2025, according to a new report by Normandin Beaudry. It…
- By: Staff
- February 12, 2026 February 11, 2026
- 09:00
Financial market regulators establish committee to implement total cost reporting plan
The Joint Forum of Financial Market Regulators is establishing a committee to help implement its total cost reporting plan. The plan aims to increase investor…
- By: Staff
- December 15, 2023 December 15, 2023
- 15:00
Men more likely than women to report reduced stress due to financial wellness programs: survey
More than a quarter (28 per cent) of male employees in the U.S. report a reduction in their stress levels due to their employer’s financial…
- By: Staff
- September 25, 2023 September 22, 2023
- 09:00
Alberta deserves more than half CPP assets if it exits program: report
A report commissioned by the Alberta government estimates the province would be entitled to more than half the assets of the Canada Pension Plan if it…
- By: The Canadian Press, with files from staff
- September 22, 2023 September 21, 2023
- 09:00