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An Ontario court has approved a plan submitted by the OSC and IIROC to distribute funds to investors burned in the third-party Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) fiasco that began in 2007.
By Staff |March 13, 2012
1 min read
Market Insights
Wow! What a busy week. Things started poorly for investors as markets violently adjusted to the prospect of slower global economic growth. China cut her 2012 economic growth target and Europe reported its economy shrank in the fourth quarter last year. Greece also weighed with the lack of progress on the Private Market Initiative (PMI) to swap existing bonds for new bonds.
By David Andrews |March 12, 2012
5 min read
It might sound like a bit of an understatement, but the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), has announced that the government of Greece has experienced “a credit event”.
By Staff |March 9, 2012
2 min read
It’s important to understand the different classes of assets within infrastructure, and invest according to the growth prospects of the economy in which it operates,
By Staff |March 8, 2012
As the markets become more convinced that China will manage an economic soft-landing, fund managers have turned positive on resurgent China equities.
By Vikram Barhat |March 8, 2012
What does the “new world order” mean for individual investors? Colin Ripsman, vice-president with Phillips, Hager & North, delved into that question at the firm’s pension trustee education seminar last week in Toronto.
By Brooke Smith |March 8, 2012
3 min read
The relevance of the original G7 is fading fast. Not only is China now the world’s second largest economy, but Brazil has reached sixth place in the world.
March 7, 2012
Experts are calling the recent tumbling of commodity prices and resource-related equities an overreaction to China’s lowered growth forecast.
By Vikram Barhat |March 7, 2012
Historically, equities have offered superior long-term returns over assets such as bonds and cash—the well-known equity risk premium. The problem for many investors is that equity returns have become exceedingly volatile.
By Brooke Smith |March 7, 2012
4 min read
While the European crisis is yet to be fully resolved, emerging markets may regain some of the luster lost in 2011. What’s interesting is how investing in troubled Europe might be among the better plays on the developing world.
By Staff |March 6, 2012
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