Archive for the ‘Life Insurance’ Category

Pension plans see investing opportunities in alternative assets

June 17, 2014

JANET MCFARLAND The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Sep. 19 2012, 7:43 PM EDT A soaring number of Canadian pension plans are shifting their investment strategies this year to embrace real estate and other alternative assets as they struggle to cope with the challenges of a world with entrenched low interest rates. A survey of pension […]

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Insurers Embrace Asset Management

October 17, 2013

Since Sun Life Financial Inc. re-launched its asset management business three years ago, the unit has increased the number of its funds fourfold, highlighting efforts Canadian insurers have made to build their wealth management operations to offset weakness caused by low interest rates.

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