Caisse posts strongest half-year return since 2010
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec generated a two per cent return in the first half of the year ended June 30, 2016, its…
- By: Jennifer Paterson
- August 12, 2016 September 13, 2019
- 11:30
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec generated a two per cent return in the first half of the year ended June 30, 2016, its…
The University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto is the latest institutional investor to join the Shareholder Association for Research and Education, an organization that…
Despite continuing economic uncertainty, Canadian defined benefit pension plans showed returns of 2.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2016 compared to first quarter…
La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is to invest an additional $125 million in the form of preferred equity in its McInnis Cement plant…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board saw a net investment return of 1.45 per cent at the end of the first quarter of its 2017 fiscal…
While Canada Post Corp. has withdrawn the lockout threat it issued in early July to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, the two sides remain…
U.S. employers expect total health-care costs to jump five per cent both this year and next year, research by Willis Towers Watson has found. That…
More than 1,000 employee and retiree members of Co-op Atlantic’s defined benefit pension plan are to share $7.25 million following a New Brunswick judge’s approval…
Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund Board, along with Axium Infrastructure and Manulife Financial, have acquired Samsung Renewable Energy’s one-third interest in the K2 Wind Facility near Goderich,…
RBC Investor and Treasury Services has appointed David Linds as managing director and head of asset servicing Canada. Based in Toronto, Linds will be responsible…
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has acquired a 20 per cent stake in Plenary Group Holdings, an investor, developer and public infrastructure manager…
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada is getting a head start on the next federal budget by calling for changes to the treatment of group…
Saskatchewan’s pension regulator has set out proposals that include eliminating solvency funding for the province’s negotiated cost pension plans. Currently, all negotiated cost plans must…
The funded position of a typical defined benefit pension plan rose both on a solvency basis (2.8 per cent) and an accounting basis (2.3 per…
Nearly half (47 per cent) of Canadian employees say they’re interested in improving their well-being and plan on using workplace benefits to do so, according…
The decision by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board this month to reduce 10 per cent of its China equity team based in Hong Kong…
In its 2024 budget on Tuesday, the Ontario government reiterated its support for a provincial infrastructure bank to leverage public sector pension investments. The bank,…
A new $185 billion plan by Hydro-Quebec to build out increased power capacity is gaining attention from institutional investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.…
The New York State Common Retirement Fund is restricting its exposure in eight integrated oil and gas companies, including divesting a portion of its investment…