Today’s alternative investment universe should be a fertile environment for portfolio construction. Investors seeking to build or grow an allocation to alternatives can select from an array of strategies offering a wide range of potential benefits such as return enhancement, high current income, better diversification, tail-risk hedging and inflation protection.
Canada’s first financial literacy leader, Jane Rooney, is looking for influential people within the public, private and non-profit sectors across the country to serve on the country’s first National Steering Committee on Financial Literacy.
As traditional asset classes suffered in 2007 and 2008, agricultural commodity prices increased on the back of strong fundamentals. Indications suggest potential for further, long-term growth, despite strong returns from the asset class over the past few years.
Benchmark-oriented active managers will fall behind.
More than three in five Canadian and American employers believe their employees face more personal financial challenges today than they did five years ago, according to a survey.
For the eighth consecutive year, CIBC Mellon has been named the best sub-custodian in Canada in Global Finance magazine's annual ranking of the World's Best Sub-Custodian Banks.
Concerns and stress about personal finances are distracting American employees during working hours, impacting their job performance and potentially sapping company productivity, according to a new survey from the Society for Human Resource Management.
Great-West Lifeco's first-quarter earnings rose 13.5% to $587 million.
Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services reported net income of $82.9 million in the first quarter, a 4% increase over last year.
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has renewed an agreement for custodian services with State Street.