TORONTO – Canadian pension funds achieved coming back of 5.4 percent on their own investments in 2015 as their means of diversifying internationally helped mitigate volatile market conditions, research by RBC Investor & Treasury Services showed. The research, which is the industry’s very indepth study of Canadian funds, showed they achieved coming back of 3.1 per cent within the fourth ...

Chinese investors have won one of the most important real estate auctions in Vancouver history, swooping in to grab a controlling curiosity about all four towers from the Bentall Centre. Mainland Chinese investors expected to be growing force in Canada’s commercial real estate in 2016 Investment in commercial real estate is expected to say no for that fourth straight year ...

After spending billions on its web operations to defend myself against rival Amazon.com Inc., the last thing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wanted to tell investors was that online sales momentum was slowing. Yet the world’s biggest retailer said Thursday that e-commerce sales rose only 8 per cent in the fourth quarter. That’s down from 10 per cent in the third quarter ...

Financial bubbles are inevitable as well as their pathologies virtually identical. The only variable is timing. This is why financial crises appear so obvious in hindsight yet remain frustratingly difficult to predict. A couple of years ago, the hedge fund Winton Capital produced a handsome and richly-illustrated book known as the Pit and the Pendulum, chronicling many, but by no ...

Do tougher global warming policies diminish investment returns from oil assets, facilities and pipelines? Not necessarily, because not all crude oils are identical. Tougher greenhouse gas coverage is to become expected over the next several years. Last December at the COP conference in Paris, 196 countries pledged to reduce their carbon emissions. Consequently, governments all over the world are drafting ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, lowered its annual sales forecast following the strong dollar pulled on the value of overseas revenue. The company now expects net sales growth to be flat this year, in contrast to a previous forecast for growth up to 4 percent, based on a statement Thursday. The outlook signal that Wal-Mart still faces hurdles ...

Craig Copeland, the mayor of Cold Lake, can’t realise why a lot of Canadian politicians are unmoved by the devastation of Alberta oil centres like his own. ‘I’m done’: Alberta’s laid-off oil workers instructed to abandon industry in worst downturn they’ve ever seen Alberta lost 19,600 jobs this past year – probably the most since 1982 and many industry veterans ...

VANCOUVER – Canada’s largest Caterpillar heavy equipment dealer says it’ll cut 400 to 500 jobs from the global operations this year, on top of 1,900 which were announced this past year in 2 separate rounds of downsizing. Vancouver-based Finning International Inc. – that also operates in South usa and also the Uk – says about 200 of the latest cuts ...