This report provides detailed information on the institutional investment market across Canada.  

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

Low interest rates and market volatility continue to frustrate intermediaries, challenging them to provide suitable investment options to end-clients, as well as underpinning investor reluctance to fully re-commit to markets and ultimately defining...

Canadian investors have diverging preferences for investment styles, manager approaches, portfolio construction, and manager hiring.

Equity demand will be greatest for global, emerging, and small cap equities in 2014.

Despite increased asset levels, funding rates remain depressed and largely unchanged since 2008.

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.

Almost all distributors now distribute emerging market and high yield bonds in addition to money market, domestic bonds and global bonds.

Distributors ultimately only recommend a handful of funds which their sales-people focus on.

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