Alternative investments have been the name of the game for many of the leaders on Benefit Canada‘s list of the fastest-growing pension funds for 2016. Both the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, ranked third on the list of fastest-growing plans at 10.65 per cent growth, and Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund Board, ranked fourth at 10.6 per […]
Ivanhoé Cambridge has acquired an industrial real estate provider from global private investment firm TPG Real Estate. Evergreen Industrial Properties owns and manages about 150 light industrial assets across 18 cities in the United States. It offers industrial and commercial tenants with infill locations where they can store goods, machinery and equipment for distribution, e-commerce […]
Northern Trust survey says transparency requirements are lagging behind demand.
Home Capital Group Inc. will end its $2-billion credit agreement with the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan just months after it entered into the deal in late April. The troubled mortgage lender announced Thursday it has received a $2-billion credit line and a $400-million investment from Columbia Insurance Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway […]
Though alternative investing has become more mainstream, best practices around transparency requirements are lagging behind demand, according to a new survey by Northern Trust. The survey, which polled 200 institutional investors and asset managers, found respondents cited transparency as the leading investment consideration, for both alternative investments (62 per cent) and traditional investments (62 per […]
The government of Canada is providing $1.3 billion for a light-rail project spearheaded by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. The additional capital will help the Caisse’s infrastructure arm, CDPQ Infra, proceed with constructing the 67-kilometre transit system that will connect the greater Montreal area. “The [light-rail network] is one of the most ambitious […]
Almost all hedge fund strategies generated positive returns in May, making it the seventh month in a row that the alternative asset has produced a positive performance, according to research by Preqin Ltd. The data and intelligence agency’s benchmark, which measures all types of hedge funds, returned almost 0.3 per cent in May. And while […]
For years, Canadians have faced calls to invest overseas given the narrowness of the Canadian equity market and the relatively small proportion of global gross domestic product Canada represents. Publicly listed Canadian companies have ranged between three and five per cent of global GDP, and yet Canadian investors’ allocations to Canadian equities have historically been […]
Like many institutional investors, sovereign players continue to face a challenging return environment, underperforming their targets by an average of two per cent over the past year, according to Invesco Ltd.’s fifth annual global sovereign asset management study. The underperformance is partially attributable to low economic growth, which has also posed problems on the funding side. As […]
Faced with geopolitical uncertainty and limited options to increase risk asset allocations, sovereign investors are making fewer allocation changes than in any point in the past five years, according to Invesco’s fifth annual global sovereign asset management study. It found sovereign investors consider low interest rates the greatest tactical asset allocation factor, driving increasing allocations […]