An article on the federal government’s notification to public employees on early retirement options was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this past week. Here are the top five human resources, benefits, pension and investment stories of the last week: 1. Government sending early retirement info to nearly 70,000 public employees 2. CIBC appointing Yvonne Dimitroff […]
The world’s 500 largest asset managers’ assets under management reached US$139.9 trillion at the end of 2024, a 9.4 per cent increase from the previous year, according to a new report by WTW’s Thinking Ahead Institute. It found this increase was driven largely by North American asset managers, which reported an average increase of 13 […]
Increased allocations to private assets are pushing total fund fees and causing institutional investors to review their investment management partners’ fee packages, says Duncan Higgs, managing director and head of portfolio solutions at bfinance. Underlying fees in alternative investment markets — such as carried interest and waterfall structures — are increasingly considered by investors dealing […]
It’s a generally recognized fact that institutional investors in the Nordic region pioneered the approach to sustainable investing, including incorporating environmental, social and governance factors. Sweden’s large public pension funds — AP1, AP2, AP3, AP4, AP6 and AP7 — are regulated by a law introduced in the early 2000s stipulating that sustainability needs to be […]
Eddy Ng remembers 2020 as a landmark year for diversity, equity and inclusion as the corporate world responded to the public outcry that followed the murder of George Floyd. Within months of that tragic event, the largest companies in the world had publicly committed an estimated $50 billion towards racial justice measures, while professional networking […]
Against a backdrop of unpredictability on the global stage, Canadian institutional investors continue to face several competing headwinds, including a push from the federal government to encourage more investment domestically, central banks’ developing policies to tame inflation and a new U.S. president already making his imprint on foreign affairs. At the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise […]
While the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. supports the goal of net zero by 2050, that doesn’t translate to a hard target for its portfolio, according to Jennifer Coulson (pictured left), the organization’s senior managing director and global head of environmental, social and governance. Speaking in a panel session at the Canadian Investment Review’s 2025 […]
The push to make companies detail their exposure to climate change received a boost last week with about 80 women leaders in business and civil society calling on Canadian securities regulators to restart work on mandating climate disclosures. In an open letter organized by Women Leading on Climate, the signatories said they strongly disagree with […]
Two-thirds (66 per cent) of global institutional investors say they plan to increase their private asset allocations over the next five years, according to a new survey by investment manager Nuveen. The survey, which polled more than 800 global institutional investors representing US$19 trillion in assets under management, found more than 90 per cent now […]
While community bonds, an investment asset offered by not-for-profits looking to raise capital for socially conscious projects, are growing in Canada, they don’t match the investment needs of institutional investors, says Rod Lohin, executive director at the Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. “[Community bonds are] just […]