The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is reporting a 12.6 per cent return for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, up from 7.2 per cent in the previous fiscal year. The complementary portfolio, which focuses on investments that aren’t within the mandate of an existing asset class but have strategic benefits to the total […]
The Medicus Pension Plan is reporting a 152 per cent funded status on a going-concern basis and a 120 per cent funded status on a solvency basis as of Jan. 1, 2025. In its annual report, the multi-employer defined benefit pension plan designed exclusively for incorporated physicians in Canada, also reported an investment return of […]
The University Pension Plan recorded a 10.3 per cent annual net return in 2024, increasing its net assets to $12.8 billion. According to its latest annual results report, the investment organization took in $1.2 billion in net investment income during the year. The positive investment return was driven mainly by U.S. equities and absolute return […]
The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan is reporting a 15.2 per cent net return at the end of 2024. The investment organization’s total assets under management increased to $23.3 billion in 2024, compared to $20.1 billion in 2023. Read: CAAT returns 9.5% for 2023, led by global, emerging market equities In a […]
Vestcor Inc. achieved an overall investment portfolio return of 12.2 per cent as at Dec. 31, 2024, surpassing its benchmark by 0.1 per cent. In a report, the New Brunswick-based investment manager said its total assets grew by $2 billion to $23.1 billion in 2024. Read: Vestcor returns 7.5% for 2023, amid rising inflation, high […]
The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan is reporting a 9.7 per cent return as at Dec. 31, 2024, with net assets increasing to $123 billion, up from $112.6 billion in 2023. Public equities (17.9 per cent) and private equities (17.9 per cent) accounted for the highest returns in 2024 within the HOOP’s portfolio. Infrastructure (12.3 […]
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is reporting a 9.4 per cent investment return as at Dec. 31, 2024, pushing its total net assets to $473 billion. The positive investment result was credited to the performance of public equities (25.5 per cent), private equity (17.2 per cent), infrastructure (9.5 per cent) and fixed […]
Alberta’s finance minister has sacked the chief executive officer and entire board of directors of the Alberta Investment Management Corp., the Crown corporation that manages pension and other funds for the province and handles more than $160 billion in assets. Finance Minister Nate Horner said in a statement Thursday that the changes at the AIMCo are due […]
The Nova Scotia Pension Services Corp. — which administers the investment assets of the Public Service Superannuation Plan and the Teachers’ Pension Plan — reported an increase in net assets to $13.7 billion, a year-over-year increase of about $670 million, for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024. The PSSP saw an investment return of 7.93 […]
A story discussing the factors leading employees to delay taking time off and instead engage in ‘quiet vacationing’ was the most-read story this week on BenefitsCanada.com. Here are the top five human resources, benefits, pension and investment stories of the past week: 1. Employees hesitant to take time off turning to ‘quiet vacationing’: expert 2. 42% of […]