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 the investment organization’s latest financial report. Read: OMERS returns 2.2% in first half of 2025, net assets reach $138.2 billion It noted the OMERS increased its net assets to $145.2 billion […]
The Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System is parting ways with two infrastructure leads in the wake of struggling investments in the European market, according to a report from the Financial Times. Alastair Hall (pictured right), the OMERS’ senior managing director for Europe, and Chris Hogg (pictured left), a director based in the London office, both […]
With global trade wars, environmental, social, and governance pushback and artificial intelligence advances, 2025 was a roller-coaster year for institutional investors. Unfortunately, 2026 is shaping up to be another year marked by high uncertainty. Here are three priorities for pension leaders to keep in mind as they steer their organizations through turbulent waters. Read: Uncertain […]
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. The new partnership will have a shared focus on long-term value creation and embedding material environmental, social and governance considerations into asset management, according to a press release. “The partnership […]
Retirement advice and personalization are becoming foundational expectations for employees, not optional enhancements, said Rachel Weker, retirement strategist at T. Rowe Price Group Inc., during a recent webinar by the organization. “We anticipate this is going to happen for three main reasons. One is that retirement plan participants are facing increasingly complicated financial backdrops . […]
The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is appointing Jon Salon as executive vice-president and global head of private equity, effective Feb. 2, 2026. Salon first joined the BCI’s private equity team in 2024 as senior managing director and global head of health care. He succeeds Jim Pittman, who has led the program since 2016 and is […]
A quantitative investment process could begin competing with the best fixed income and fundamental traditional credit asset managers in the near future, according to Bernd Wuebben, director of systematic investing and quantitative research at AllianceBernstein. “In the context of quant processes, systematic processes, there’s nothing passive about this,” he said during a session at the […]
The size of the collateralized loan obligation market is revealing an interest pattern in alternative debt investment opportunities, particularly in Europe and the U.S., according to David Lindstone, executive director at Benefit Street Partners Alcentra, which is owned by Franklin Templeton Investments. “It’s about US$1.4 trillion globally at this point, so it’s a very meaningful […]
CPP Investments’ chief executive officer has described the organization as a supertanker, referring to scale — a portfolio approaching $800 billion — and the inability to pivot quickly due to its investments across illiquid assets. “We need to be cognizant of that,” said Derek Walker, the organization’s managing director and head of applied research and […]
The outlier performance of investments in gold can be traced to risk-off activity from central banks around the world, according to Karlan Patel, vice-president and exchange-traded fund investment strategist at State Street Investment Management. “Specifically, it’s Turkey, India, China [and] Poland,” he said during a session at the Canadian Investment Review’s 2025 Investment Innovation Conference. […]