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U.S.-China business relationship, private credit shaping investments in 2024: IMCO

bmcgovern — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:00:25 +0000

The Investment Management Corp. of Ontario believes an increasingly icy dynamic between the U.S. and China could lead to heightened volatility for institutional investors this year, says Nick Chamie, the IMCO’s chief strategist and senior managing director of total portfolio and capital markets. “If we’re no longer zeroing in on maximizing economic efficiency, we’re no longer […]

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ACPM focusing on VPLA policy, ESG investment standards in 2024

bmcgovern — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:00:23 +0000

In the coming year, the Association of Canadian Pension Management is looking forward to the possibility of participating in final consultations on policies and legislation determining variable payment life annuities, says Todd Saulnier, a principal at Mercer and president of the ACPM board. The 2023 federal budget proposed amendments to the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985 […]

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IMCO investing in digital infrastructure provider, Caisse constructing Boston life sciences facility

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:45:37 +0000

The Investment Management Corp. of Ontario is investing US$450 million in a digital infrastructure provider. DataBank Ltd. operates a portfolio of 74 data centres in France, the U.K. and the U.S. Its facilities are used by commercial clients across a range of sectors. According to a press release, the investment is part of a strategy to […]

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OMERS’ real estate arm developing French laboratories, PSP-backed firm investing in Tokyo data centre

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 24 May 2022 17:00:03 +0000

The real estate arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System is entering a long-term strategic partnership to develop commercial laboratories in France. In the agreement it reached with French urban investor and developer NoVaxia Inc., the Oxford Property Group will co-manage approximately €1 billion ($1.4 billion) in assets which will be invested in life sciences […]

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Canadian asset managers trust analysts more, technology less than global peers: report

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:00:51 +0000

Compared to their global peers, Canada’s asset managers are more confident in their organizations’ data analysis abilities and less confident in their data management platforms, according to a new report by BNY Mellon Asset Management Canada Ltd. The report, based on the results of a survey of 200 asset managers across the globe, found almost […]

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CAAT looks to AI, machine learning

mschmit — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:56:41 +0000

The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan is betting that artificial intelligence and machine learning will play a role in pension administration going forward. “I won’t pretend that we’re Netflix or Tesla in this, but we are [taking] small steps today so we can take advantage of these advances of technology into the […]

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