Canadian institutional investors plan to increase real estate and infrastructure allocations further, likely at the expense of domestic equities.

Defined Contribution is expected to play an increasingly important role in the Canadian investment management business, with DC assets expected to double over the next ten years as a proportion of all retirement assets.

Allocations to non-traditional products – namely real estate, infrastructure, and multi-asset class solutions – edged slightly higher in 2013.

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Comerica Bank claimed the highest number of 2013 Greenwich Excellence Awards in Middle Market Banking overall, while Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan each claimed two Greenwich Excellence Awards in the Mid-Corporate category.

In the Mid-Corporate category, which spans companies with annual revenues of $500 million to $2 billion, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan each claimed two Greenwich Excellence Awards, while Citi, HSBC and Wells Fargo each claimed one...

Corporate funds clearly intend to further de-risk portfolios, predicting increases to fixed income and decreases to equities.

Public pension plans and endowments and foundations have been and are expected to be most active in hiring of managers.

The majority of investors continue to prefer structuring portfolios by traditional asset classes vs. a risk bucket approach.  

In corporate DC plans, the proportion of assets in target date funds has nearly tripled since 2008.