The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is entering a private agreement to give AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. the option to repurchase the seven million common shares held by the investment organization. The shares held by the Caisse will be repurchased at a price of $90.87 per share, for a total consideration of roughly $636 […]
The funded status of a typical Canadian pension plan increased on both a solvency and accounting basis during the month of May, according to a new report by Telus Health. The solvency index jumped to 101.1 per cent compared to 98.2 per cent at the end of April, while the accounting index increased from 99.5 […]
U.S. public pension plan sponsors have significantly diversified their portfolios since 2001, allocating, on average, 20 per cent of assets from public equities and fixed income to private equity, real estate, hedge funds and other alternative investments, according to a new report by Aon and the National Institute on Retirement Security. It found this shift […]
The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is reporting a 10 per cent annual combined pension plan return and an increase in assets under management to $251.6 billion as at March 31, 2025. The one-year return underperformed its benchmark of 12.3 per cent. Over a five, 10- and 15-year period, the investment organization achieved a return […]
In recent years, the energy sector has been unloved and out of favour, sitting at just below four per cent on the MSCI World index, according to Yashica Reddy, investment director of thematic equities at Schroders, during the Canadian Investment Review’s 2025 Global Investment Conference. This underweight and under-ownership of energy is surprising for two reasons: […]
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 funded position of a typical Canadian defined benefit pension plan increased slightly both on a solvency and accounting basis in April, according to Telus Health’s latest pension index. It found the average funded position increased slightly on a solvency basis from 97.7 per cent to 98.2 per cent at the end of the month. […]
A decision by the Bank of Canada to hold its benchmark interest rate steady at 2.75 per cent could magnify the interest of corporate pension funds to pursue de-risking strategies, says Soami Kohly, fixed income portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management. “We’ve seen [institutional investors] that have been de-risking their portfolio — in other words, […]
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 […]
Canadian pension plans saw a median return of 1.23 per cent for the first quarter of 2025, according to a new report from CIBC Mellon. It also noted a median one-year return of 9.21 per cent and a 10-year annualized return of 6.46 per cent for the average Canadian pension plan. Based on $328 billion […]