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The Investment Management Corp. of Ontario is reporting a weighted average net return of 9.9 per cent as at Dec. 31, 2024. At the end of the year, the investment organization’s net assets under management grew to $86 billion, compared to $77.4 billion at the end of 2023. The IMCO’s annualized long-term results were 4.2 […]

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  • April 9, 2025 April 9, 2025
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Private equity allocations are increasing to 12 per cent in the asset mix of U.S.-based institutional investors while public equities reached 38 per cent in 2024, according to a new report by Crisil Coalition Greenwich. In 2024, fixed income (29 per cent) and U.S. equities (19 per cent) were the leading assets among U.S. defined […]

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  • April 4, 2025 April 2, 2025
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An emerging trend in U.S. defined contribution investment strategies is the ‘blend trend,’ which is a target-date solution that allocates to underlying building blocks that are managed both actively and passively. During a session at Benefits Canada’s 2025 DC Plan Summit, Jessica Sclafani, global retirement strategist at T. Rowe Price, shared data from the investment […]

Rather than a single defined contribution plan sponsor tackling the decumulation dilemma alone, decisions need to be reframed as a decumulation ecosystem, said Nicole Lomax, vice-president and portfolio manager in institutional asset allocation at TD Asset Management Inc. During a session at Benefits Canada’s 2025 DC Plan Summit, she outlined the five decumulation priorities based […]

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The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is reporting a net return of 9.4 per cent for 2024, up from 1.9 per cent in 2023, according to its latest annual report. The investment organization underperformed its benchmark return of 12.9 per cent, equivalent to $7.6 billion in negative value add. Its net assets grew to $266.3 billion, […]

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  • March 21, 2025 March 24, 2025
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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 […]

Institutional investors are looking for bond dealers to invest more in increased automation supported by more data and more application programming interfaces, according to a new survey from Coalition Greenwich. The survey, which polled 67 buy-side corporate bond traders located in the U.S. and Europe, found nearly half (47 per cent) want to see improved […]

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  • March 17, 2025 March 13, 2025
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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 […]

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  • March 13, 2025 March 12, 2025
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Canadian government bond yields declined further in February based on the impact to growth from tariff policy from the U.S. on Canadian exports materializing, according to a new report from FTSE Russell. Tariff risk is weighing down the entire Canadian segment including government bonds and Canadian credit. However, the risk that reciprocal tariffs may push […]

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  • March 12, 2025 March 12, 2025
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Institutional investors turning to equities, global markets in 2021

While the coronavirus pandemic is in the world’s rearview mirror, institutional investors are continuing to navigate a post-recovery period rife with uncertainty. Indeed, five years after the World Health Organization declared the pandemic on March 11, 2020, world markets are contending with a host of new challenges, including a raging Russia-Ukraine war, a budding tariff […]