Top 5 HR, benefits, pension and investment stories of the week
An article on Ontario’s proposed changes to preferred pharmacy network agreements was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this past week. Here are the top five…
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CPPIB backing acquisition of India-based logistics parks, Oxford leases office space to AI firm
A joint venture co-owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and IndoSpace is acquiring six industrial and logistics parks in India for roughly $471…
- By: Staff
- November 28, 2025 November 28, 2025
- 15:00
Top 5 HR, benefits, pension and investment stories of the week
An article on the legal considerations for employers requiring cross-border travel was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this past week. Here are the top five…
- By: Staff
- November 28, 2025 November 27, 2025
- 09:00
‘Peer pressure effect’ impacting some institutional investors’ decisions around gold, U.S. equities: experts
The most sophisticated institutional investors are trained to avoid trends or frenzies surrounding a strategy, but human nature dictates that even some will experience a…
- By: Bryan McGovern
- November 25, 2025 November 25, 2025
- 11:00
Caisse acquiring minority stake in Quebec-based steelmaker, majority stake in U.S. electrical engineering firm
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Investissement Québec are each acquiring a minority stake in Quebec-based steelmaker the Honco Group. The transaction…
- By: Staff
- November 24, 2025 November 24, 2025
- 15:00
World’s 500 largest asset managers’ AUM up 9.4% in 2024: report
The world’s 500 largest asset managers’ assets under management reached US$139.9 trillion at the end of 2024, a 9.4 per cent increase from the previous…
- By: Staff
- November 19, 2025 November 19, 2025
- 15:00
CPPIB returns 5.4% in Q2, net assets total $777.5 billion
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board said it earned a net return of 5.4 per cent for its second quarter. The board said the increase…
- By: The Canadian Press
- November 14, 2025 November 14, 2025
- 15:00
2025 Top 40 Money Managers Report: How ‘Maple Middle’ pension plans are finding an investment niche
Size matters when it comes to Canada’s much-vaunted model of pension investment. Sebastien Betermier, an associate professor of finance at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of…
- By: Michael McKiernan
- November 14, 2025 November 12, 2025
- 08:57
Scaling up private assets at Western University
As private market assets become more widely adopted by institutional investors, they open up new, unexpected opportunities. Tom Keenleyside, associate director of investments at Western…
- By: Bryan McGovern
- November 14, 2025 November 12, 2025
- 08:55
Average Canadian DB pension plan returns 4.4% in Q3 2025: report
The average Canadian defined benefit pension plan returned 4.4 per cent in the third quarter of 2025, up from 1.6 per cent in the second…
- By: Staff
- November 12, 2025 November 12, 2025
- 15:00
Caisse, PSP Investments backing offshore wind farm investment deal, Oxford signing lease expansion for life sciences project
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board are supporting an investment deal in which alternative asset manager…
- By: Staff
- November 7, 2025 November 7, 2025
- 15:00
Ontario moving forward on OMERS amendments, reiterating support for infrastructure fund
In its fall economic statement, the Ontario government said it’s introducing legislation that would amend the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System Act, enabling provisions intended to…
- By: Staff
- November 7, 2025 November 11, 2025
- 15:00
Top 5 HR, benefits, pension and investment stories of the week
An article on one of Pratt & Whitney Canada’s wins in Benefits Canada’s 2025 Workplace Benefits Awards was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this past…
- By: Staff
- November 7, 2025 November 6, 2025
- 09:00
Feds proposing venture, growth capital catalyst initiative, clean electricity tax credit for institutional investors: budget
In its 2025 budget, the federal government announced several initiatives to incentivize institutional investors to back domestic infrastructure and business ventures. The budget proposed $1…
- By: Staff
- November 5, 2025 November 5, 2025
- 09:00
Coverage of the 2025 DC Investment Forum
On Sept. 30, more than 80 defined contribution pension plan sponsors, consultants, asset managers and other industry stakeholders met at the Omni King Edward Hotel…
- By: Benefits Canada
- November 5, 2025 October 28, 2025
- 08:00
2025 DC Investment Forum: Advice is key to solving the DC retirement income challenge
According to MFS Investment Management’s Sean Kenney, his three sisters would all fall within the same target-date age cohort, but their lifestyles and retirement goals…
- By: Kelsey Rolfe
- November 5, 2025 October 27, 2025
- 07:57
2025 DC Investment Forum: A look at how DC plan sponsors can integrate private assets into target-date fund lineups
While integrating private assets into target-date funds can give plan members income-generating and diversification benefits at an attractive risk profile relative to traditional asset classes,…
- By: Kelsey Rolfe
- November 5, 2025 October 27, 2025
- 07:55
2025 DC Investment Forum: Using private assets in DC plan portfolios as an inflation hedge
After a “Goldlilocks period” of low inflation and economic stability in the 2010s, the coming decades are expected to be marked by a higher cost…
- By: Kelsey Rolfe
- November 5, 2025 October 27, 2025
- 07:53
HBC returning former stores to landlords, including Ivanhoé Cambridge, Oxford Properties
Hudson’s Bay Co. is returning its former stores to landlords, effectively ending a British Columbia billionaire’s fight to take over the collapsed retailer’s leases. Franco…
- By: Tara Deschamps, the Canadian Press
- November 4, 2025 November 4, 2025
- 15:00
BCI-backed sustainability platform acquired by third party, Caisse-supported accounting platform gets strategic investment
A sustainability investments classification platform co-founded by the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is being acquired by Net Purpose. The financial details of the transaction…
- By: Staff
- October 31, 2025 October 30, 2025
- 15:00
Caisse entrusts Quebec firm with real-estate management services, 407 toll highway sees 26% increase in net income
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is granting operational management of its office buildings in Quebec to real estate services firm Canderel. This…
- By: Staff
- October 24, 2025 October 31, 2025
- 15:00
How potential changes to U.S. reporting requirements could impact Canadian institutional investors
If U.S. securities authorities change the long-established financial reporting requirements for companies, it could bring the due diligence process for public companies closer to private…
- By: Bryan McGovern
- October 21, 2025 October 20, 2025
- 11:00
OMERS closes $1.5 billion infrastructure financing, Oxford unveils new Australian rental building asset
The infrastructure arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System has confirmed the completed inaugural senior unsecured bond issuance for the BPC Generation Infrastructure Trust…
- By: Staff
- October 17, 2025 October 17, 2025
- 15:00
Top 5 HR, benefits, pension and investment stories of the week
An article on recent private equity investments by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this past week. Here are…
- By: Staff
- October 17, 2025 October 16, 2025
- 09:00
Ontario Teachers’ appointing Christopher Metrakos as executive managing director of infrastructure, natural resources
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is appointing Christopher Metrakos as executive managing director of infrastructure and natural resources, effective immediately. In this role, he’ll be…
- By: Staff
- October 14, 2025 October 10, 2025
- 15:00