The median solvency ratio of Canadian defined benefit pension plans hit its highest level since before the 2007 financial crisis, according to the latest quarterly…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is joining up with mall developer Phoenix Mills Ltd. to develop, own and operate retail properties in India. Read: What should institutional…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is investing for the third time in Fix Auto World as it expands by acquiring several competitors. The…
The private equity arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System has agreed to acquire a technology company that operates intelligent commerce networks from ABRY…
Aging populations have led to top-heavy societies in many developed countries. Besides the United States, all the major economies will see a decline in their…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is investing $36.5 million in Eddyfi NDT Inc., a developer of inspection equipment and software for the…
Investors will soon be able to buy an exchange-traded fund that offers them exposure to companies with activities in the medical marijuana industry. Horizons ETF…
Current holders of long-term Canadian and U.S. bonds should brace for the possibility of sharp interest rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve, an economist is…
Three major pension funds have made significant investments in property and casualty insurance companies in the past six months. What do the transactions suggest about…
A consortium that includes the Public Sector Pension Investment Board has acquired Vantage Data Centers, a U.S.-based provider of data centre solutions. The consortium, which…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System’s infrastructure investment manager Borealis Infrastructure and Britain-based energy company SSE are backing the launch…
The Ontario Pension Board, which administers the province’s public service pension plan, had an annual investment return of 8.1 per cent at the end of…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec will jointly acquire American an insurance brokerage and consulting firm in a transaction that values the company…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is investing in Datamars, a global company that uses technology to identify and track livestock, companion animals and…
Ivanhoé Cambridge, the real estate arm of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, is selling the company that owns Xanadú shopping centre in Madrid,…
Institutional investors are turning to riskier assets for better returns in order to cope with the current environment of low yields and volatile markets, according to…
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. is investing $673.5 million to indirectly acquire shares of global insurance company Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings. AIMCo signed a…
More than a quarter of adults in the Netherlands smoked in 2012, according to the World Bank. And the country’s pension funds are even more…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and French industrial services company SUEZ will acquire General Electric Co.’s water and process technologies business. The transaction,…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has acquired 8.7 million additional shares of 5N Plus, a specialty metal and chemical products producer headquartered in…
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. has acquired HSBC Bank Place and Enbridge Place in Edmonton, Alta. The investment adds more than 550,000 square feet of…
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. and the AES Corp. have agreed to acquire U.S. solar developer FTP Power LLC (sPower) from Fir Tree Partners and…
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System improved its net investment return to 10.3 per cent at the end of 2016 compared to 6.7 per cent…
As it continues to build an ‘all-terrain’ portfolio, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec posted a return of 7.6 per cent in 2016. This…
More than a third (34 per cent) of global institutional investors invest in four or more alternative asset classes, according to a new report by…