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Canadian pensions have healthy liquidity despite alternative investments: report
BY Benefits Canada Staff | November 15, 2018
Increasing exposure to less liquid, alternative assets like infrastructure, real estate and private equity hasn’t created difficulty for Canadian pensions in repaying creditors, according to a ...
Do changes in companies’ ESG profiles influence stock prices?
BY Yaelle Gang | November 15, 2018
When looking for equity investments, how do changes in a company’s environmental, social and governance profile impact its stock price? This month, MSCI released a report ...
When it comes to DB plans, what do members want to know?
November 15, 2018
November is financial literacy month in Canada. What does member education look like in a defined benefit world where plan members don’t actively need to be ...
Fixed income opportunities in the current interest rate environment
BY Yaelle Gang | November 14, 2018
Will the environment of rising rates continue? And if so, over what period? And where can long-term investors find opportunities? Canadian Investment Review asked Robert Spector, ...
Institutional investors and private credit
BY Yaelle Gang | November 13, 2018
Seventy per cent of all private credit committed capital comes from institutional investors, says a recent report, Financing the Economy 2018, released by the Alternative ...
Italy, equities and the European Commission’s autumn economic forecast
BY Yaelle Gang | November 12, 2018
On Thursday November 8, the European Commission published its 2018 Autumn Economic forecast, predicting that in 2019 Italy’s deficit will increase to 2.9 per cent ...
A relatively flat quarter for the CPP Fund
BY Staff | November 12, 2018
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced that the CPP Fund ended its second quarter of fiscal 2019 (September 30, 2018), with a $1.7 billion ...
Certainty or volatility? U.S. midterm results
BY Yaelle Gang | November 8, 2018
With the Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, Angus Sippe, portfolio manager at Schroders shares his views on what the ...
Combining big data and ESG ratings to find alpha
BY Yaelle Gang | November 8, 2018
In 2018, there have been over 250,000 unique English articles focused on ESG issues across 8,000 companies according to data from TruValue Labs. But how ...
Disruption, innovation and the alternative asset management industry
BY Staff | November 7, 2018
As market conditions and investment preferences shift, investors are looking to private equity and other asset classes, while hedge funds face headwinds raising capital, according to ...
