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How active management strategies are helping institutional investors amid volatile global marketplace

lbailey — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:57:55 +0000

As global markets navigate turbulent economic waters, active management is proving once again to be a lifeline for institutional investors to ensure their portfolios ride out the storm. Pension funds are currently operating amid uncertainty and potential risk, says Ruslan Goyenko, an associate professor of finance at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. “There are […]

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2023 GIC coverage: Saving the global economy from conventional thinking

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:59:39 +0000

If Irish economist David McWilliams is to be believed, overconfident fools are tampering with the global economy. “If I were an American, Canadian or — God forbid — a British economist, . . . I’d come here today armed with graphs and charts and all that malarkey,” he said during the keynote session at the […]

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2023 GIC coverage: Green buildings reaping attractive risk-adjusted returns for institutional investors

lbailey — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:45:44 +0000

There’s a distinct window of opportunity for institutional investors to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns through refurbishing brown buildings in Europe to make them operationally carbon neutral, said Lucy Swinton, investment director at Fidelity International, during the Canadian Investment Review’s 2023 Global Investment Conference. Environmental, social and governance — particularly the ‘E’ aspects — is increasingly becoming a disruptive […]

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PSP Investments appointing Oliver Duff as senior VP, global head of credit investments

lbailey — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:00:11 +0000

The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is appointing Oliver Duff as senior vice-president of global head of credit investments. Duff joined PSP Investments in 2016 and was previously the organization’s managing director of private debt. Prior to joining the PSP, he was the global head of leveraged finance and European head of capital financing at HSBC Bank. The […]

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2022 DBIF coverage: A look at the economic forecast for 2023

Sadie Janes — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:00:44 +0000

BMO Financial Group expects North American economies will go through a shallow recession in 2023, according to Douglas Porter, the bank’s chief economist and managing director, during a session at the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2022 Defined Benefit Investment Forum. “I would give it a 25 per cent chance that central banks can still negotiate this without one. […]

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Trusteed pension funds’ assets valued at $2.27TN in Q4: Stats Can

lbailey — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:00:11 +0000

The market value of assets held by Canadian trusteed pension funds increased 4.2 per cent to $2.27 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2021, up from $2.18 trillion in the previous quarter, according to new data from Statistics Canada. Within trusteed plans, public sector assets grew five per cent to $1.78 trillion, accounting for 78 per cent […]

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CPPIB promoting Priti Singh to global head of capital markets, factor investing

Jennifer Paterson — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 19:00:26 +0000

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is promoting Priti Singh to senior managing director and global head of capital markets and factor investing, effective May 2, 2022. In the new role, Singh will be responsible for leading the external portfolio management, active macro and quantitative strategies and risk premia groups. She takes over from Poul Winslow, […]

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Ontario Teachers’ selling plastics company, Caisse investing in Dutch real estate

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:36:20 +0000

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is selling Aurora Plastics, an Ohio-based plastics manufacturer, alongside its co-owner, Chicago-based private equity firm Wild Point Partners. The pension fund purchased its stake in the firm, which produces custom rigid polyvinyl chloride powders, pellets, foams and alloys for small-and medium-sized manufacturers, in 2016. At the time, it had facilities in […]

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IMF head says global economy facing long climb to recovery

mschmit — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 04:34:36 +0000

The head of the International Monetary Fund says that the global economy has started on a long climb to stronger growth with prospects looking a little better than four months ago. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Tuesday that global economic activity suffered an unprecedented fall in the spring when 85 per cent of the […]

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Caisse releases 2019 annual report

mschmit — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:07:43 +0000

The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has released its annual report, highlighting the results previously announced on Feb. 20, including a return of 10.4 per cent for 2019 and a growth in net assets of $30.6 billion for the year. “2019 was a good year for investors – markets experienced one of their […]

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