The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is creating new climate strategy goals and wants to achieve $400 billion in climate action investments by 2030. The investment organization exceeded its climate targets set back in 2017 at the end of 2024 and reported an approximately 50 per cent reduction in its carbon footprint, according […]
Against a backdrop of unpredictability on the global stage, Canadian institutional investors continue to face several competing headwinds, including a push from the federal government to encourage more investment domestically, central banks’ developing policies to tame inflation and a new U.S. president already making his imprint on foreign affairs. At the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise […]
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: […]
While the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. supports the goal of net zero by 2050, that doesn’t translate to a hard target for its portfolio, according to Jennifer Coulson (pictured left), the organization’s senior managing director and global head of environmental, social and governance. Speaking in a panel session at the Canadian Investment Review’s 2025 […]
Through a series of research papers, investment firm Equiton is working with Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business to explore the sustained cashflows available for institutional investors in Canada’s residential real estate market alongside the impact of climate change. “Do we see any impact on these cashflows moving forward and . . . how […]
Institutional investors are moving away from standard environmental, social and governance factors, according to a new report by Morningstar Inc. The report, which took responses from in-depth interviews with 25 investors around the world, found there’s an ongoing commitment to sustainability, but less interest in keeping ESG investments. Indeed, some investors are even combining social […]
The push to make companies detail their exposure to climate change received a boost last week with about 80 women leaders in business and civil society calling on Canadian securities regulators to restart work on mandating climate disclosures. In an open letter organized by Women Leading on Climate, the signatories said they strongly disagree with […]
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is facing criticism for backing out of a commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Following the release of its fiscal 2025 annual results last week, the investment organization was called out by Shift Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health, which said net-zero commitments aren’t optional. The CPPIB […]
A new climate initiative is advising Canadian companies on how to develop effective climate transition plans as part of a larger effort to support a sustainable financial cause. Business Future Pathways — spearheaded by Barbara Zvan, president and chief executive officer at the University Pension Plan — will bring together financial industry leaders for climate-change […]
A decision by the Canadian Securities Administrators to step back from the development of a mandatory climate-related disclosure mandate could impact decision-making at one of the largest pension funds in Canada. Jennifer Coulson, senior managing director and global head of environmental, social and governance at the British Columbia Investment Management Corp., says the regulator’s decision […]