Median solvency ratio of Ontario pension plans rises 2%: FSCO
The median solvency ratio for Ontario’s defined benefit pension plans has risen two per cent, from 78 per cent to 80 per cent since Mar.…
- By: Staff
- July 20, 2016 September 13, 2019
- 09:30
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Ways to rethink fixed income
Investors tend to rely too heavily on fixed income to pad returns. While it’s true we’ve been spoiled for 30 years – falling yields have…
- By: Bryan Borzykowski, MoneySense
- July 20, 2016 September 13, 2019
- 09:24
How did Canada’s fastest-growing pension funds fight off 2015 market headwinds?
In a year that witnessed volatile markets and a plummeting Canadian dollar, 92 per cent of the plans on Benefits Canada’s top 100 pension funds…
- By: Jennifer Paterson
- July 5, 2016 September 13, 2019
- 09:11
Is it time for pension funds to rethink their fixed-income allocations?
Pension investors have always relied on bonds as a steady source of diversification, capital preservation and a hedge for liabilities. But since the 2008 financial…
- By: Caroline Cakebread
- June 21, 2016 September 13, 2019
- 09:23
CPPIB’s fiscal report reflects long-term challenges for pension funds
While the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s modest 3.4 per cent investment return announced last week will have minimal short-term effects, its investment income will have significant…
- By: Jann Lee
- May 27, 2016 September 13, 2019
- 08:39
Weak loonie triggers jump in pension plans’ risk appetites
Despite the weak Canadian dollar, the top 40 Canadian money managers increased their pension assets by 3.2 per cent in 2015, according to Benefits Canada’s…
- By: Sara Tatelman
- May 16, 2016 September 13, 2019
- 11:32
Ontario DB plan finances ‘improved slightly’ as net deficit hits $27B: FSCO
Despite market volatility, Ontario’s defined benefit pension plans have reported a slight improvement in their financial position in recent years, according to the Financial Services…
- By: Glenn Kauth
- April 14, 2016 September 13, 2019
- 10:26
Vanguard launches 10 target retirement funds
Vanguard Investments Canada Inc. has launched a series of 10 low-cost target retirement funds for qualified institutional investors, including plan sponsors in Canada. These funds are…
- By: Staff
- April 1, 2016 September 13, 2019
- 15:00
2016 to be a “year of global adjustments” for financial markets
With energy prices under renewed pressure and an expected U.S. interest rate increase this month, next year will be a period of adjustment following the…
- By: Glenn Kauth
- December 9, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 12:13
Canada’s growing retiree population expected to suppress bond yields
Over the next decade, 3.5 million people will reach retirement age — the biggest increase in that cohort in Canadian history. And that means trouble…
- By: Sarah Cunningham-Scharf
- November 12, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 10:26
China allows biggest corporate bond default yet
Communist leaders allowed China’s biggest corporate bond default yet on Thursday in a fresh sign of wrenching economic change as growth slows and Beijing gives…
- By: Associated Press
- November 12, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 10:18
Is traditional asset allocation dead?
Asset class boundaries have blurred and that means investors may need to take a different approach to asset allocation, a Unigestion report says.
- By: Staff
- October 6, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 11:56
Investors ditch emerging markets
Global investors are estimated to have sold US$40 billion worth of emerging market assets in the third quarter of 2015, according to the Institute of…
- By: Staff
- September 30, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
Canadians invest conservatively
Canadians are playing it safe when it comes to investing.
- By: Staff
- September 24, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 11:04
Three Asian debt markets you’ve overlooked
Despite an expected rise in U.S. interest rates, obscure or dangerous frontier markets can be a good way to get extra bond yields
- By: Yaldaz Sadakova
- August 21, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
Investors, get ready for the impending demographic shift
The future demographic landscape in developed countries—with increasingly older and fewer workers, as well as aging consumers—will create significant macroeconomic and market challenges all over…
- By: Erik Weisman
- August 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
Endowments, foundations still investing in bonds
Endowments and foundations (E&Fs) across Canada are facing investment obstacles, finds a new survey by Morneau Shepell.
- By: Staff
- June 16, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 09:42
CPPIB close to buying GE loan assets: report
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is close to buying a large part of General Electric Co.’s private-equity lending arm, Reuters reports. The terms of…
- By: Staff
- June 8, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 11:28
How to cope with low interest rates
What’s an investment manager to do in a low interest rate environment?
- By: Gérard Bérubé
- May 26, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
Fixed income opportunities in a low-yield environment
Investors have turned to bonds to provide income, liquidity, stability and diversification.
- By: Craig Sebastiano
- April 28, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 12:20
Monetary policy divergence is driving volatility
Monetary policy divergence is driving volatility in local asset values in markets around the world and investors should prepare for this volatility to continue, according…
- By: Staff
- April 13, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 11:48
Faith and fixed income in defined benefit pension investment
Canadian pension funds invest in emerging market debt. So why aren’t Islamic bonds, or sukuk, on the table?
- By: Yaldaz Sadakova
- April 6, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
Money managers bullish on equities, alternatives
Despite their continued uncertainty over the outlook for global economic improvement in 2015, a Towers Watson survey finds fund managers remain optimistic about investments in…
- By: Staff
- April 2, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 10:05
ETFs turn 25
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of the world's first exchange-traded fund.
- By: Staff
- March 9, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 10:12
Take an absolute return approach to bonds
Taking an absolute return approach to bonds may make them attractive again
- By: Ben Steiner
- March 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00