The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is selling Australian data centre provider Metronode Group to Equinix Inc. for $1 billion. The pension fund initially bought a 70 per…
Institutional investors should anticipate next year to be one of increasing volatility.
As 2018 approaches, investors are seeing the familiar rush of reports and predictions about the economic outlook for next year. One of the latest reports comes…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is investing in Montreal-based Innocap Investment Management Inc. through a share capital purchase and the issuance of a…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is investing $320 million for a stake in Goodman Hong Kong Logistics Partnership. The partnership, which was founded in 2006, held over…
Fiera Capital Corp. affiliate Fiera Comox has appointed Patrick Lynch as a partner in its private equity team. Lynch joins Fiera from Caisse de dépôt et…
Investors who are watching the Canadian equity market should prepare for a few more bumpy moments in 2018, according to Russell Investments Canada Ltd.’s 2018 global market outlook.…
The majority of global institutional investors anticipate 2018 will be a year of increasing volatility in both the bond (70 per cent) and stock (78 per…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is investing more than $507 million in British insurer Hyperion Insurance Group Ltd. The investment will provide new…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, along with several other investors, has raised $180 million for Canadian venture capital firm Real Ventures, bringing…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is investing $1.13 billion for a 30 per cent stake in Britain-based BGL Group Ltd. The distributor of insurance and household…
Despite the political noise around the globe, underlying economies are in pretty good shape and virtually every asset class is seeing high prices, according to the…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is acquiring a North American aquaculture farm from Encore Consumer Capital. Atlantic Aqua Farms, headquartered in Orwell Cove, P.E.I., is the largest…
The private equity investment arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System has entered into an agreement with private equity company Ardian to acquire a…
The Canada Pension Plan fund returned 2.5 per cent after all costs during the second quarter of fiscal 2018. It ended the second quarter with net assets of…
The OPSEU Pension Trust is divesting from all equity and fixed-income investments in public companies that derive a majority of their revenue from the production or…
Buoyed by rebounding Canadian equity returns, Canadian defined benefit pension plans posted returns of 0.4 per cent in the third quarter of 2017, marking the…
The median solvency ratio for Canadian defined benefit plans rose to 100.7 per cent in October as equity markets continued to rally, according to Aon Hewitt’s monthly…
The infrastructure arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is increasing its investment in Britain’s largest water company. OMERS Infrastructure is purchasing an additional 4.36 per cent…
Canadian defined benefit pension plans experienced a modest third quarter, according to separate reports by BNY Mellon Asset Management Canada Ltd. and Northern Trust Corp.…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is committing a $50-million loan to a group of solar energy systems set up by California-based Sunrun Inc. The loan…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is loaning $150 million to Innergex Renewable Energy Inc., a Quebec-based renewable energy company. Among Innergex’s ventures are hydroelectric power plants,…
The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. and French private equity group PAI Partners have agreed to a cash public offer of all shares of Refresco Group…
At an index level, equity volatility in developed markets has reached record lows in 2017. In the U.S. options market, the Chicago Board Options Exchange volatility…
For those who use the standard four per cent withdrawal rate for retirement savings, it’s time to reconsider the approach. “The four per cent withdrawal rate has…