Northern Trust has been retained as named trustee and custodian for the Halifax Regional Municipality Master Trust.
Great-West Life has launched smartPATH 2.0, an interactive online resource designed to help employers better engage their employees in retirement education, planning and saving.
Canadians might have to hit the books and brush up on their knowledge of investing.
Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc. has launched a new claims transmission option for select healthcare providers.
American employees worried more about financial matters in the third quarter of 2013 likely due to a to a growing awareness of their financial shortcomings in areas outside of day-to-day money management.
National Bank of Canada has completed the purchase of TD's institutional services business known as TD Waterhouse Institutional Services.
The Government of Canada launched the country’s third annual financial literacy month in Ottawa on Friday.
RBC gives its employees support they can bank on with an all-encompassing financial literacy strategy
For years, investors have been focused on emerging markets, starting with the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India and China), and expanding to include other countries, such as Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan. The main argument for investing in emerging markets is access to sustained, above-trend economic growth that should translate into higher profits and therefore returns.
Compared to their foreign counterparts, Canadian pension funds invest less in alternative assets largely because of a more cautious attitude, insufficient knowledge of the asset class and implementation barriers.