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@canadianshieldinstitute.caRead The Canadian Shield Institutes’s latest policy report on the Maple 8 pension funds and domestic investment, a strategy for Canadian growth: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/reports/wort...
@canadianshieldinstitute.caRead The Canadian Shield Institutes’s previous Report Card on the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/cppib-report...
@canadianshieldinstitute.caRead The Canadian Shield Institutes’s previous Report Card on The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/hoopp-report...
@canadianshieldinstitute.caOur Report Card on La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ).
CDPQ is distinctive among the Maple 8 pension funds, with a dual mandate to “generate optimal returns for depositors while contributing to Québec’s economic development.”
Read here: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/reports/mapl...
@canadianshieldinstitute.caCompared to Global Peers, Canadian Pensions Invest Way Less At Home
New analysis from Michael Sarbanis. canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/comp...
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@canadianshieldinstitute.caCanada’s pension funds are not normal.
Often reporting less domestic investment compared to their global counterparts.
Other pension funds have domestic mandates and post good returns, can Canadian pension funds do the same?
Read more here: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/cana...
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@canadianshieldinstitute.caOur Report Card on the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan.
HOOPP has the largest share of its assets in Canada, relative to any of the Maple 8 pension funds. However, their investments are heavily skewed towards bonds and real estate.
Read here: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/hoopp-report...
@canadianshieldinstitute.caWe're publishing deep-dive analysis of each Maple 8 pension plan over the next few weeks — looking at how much they invest in Canada, and what kind of assets they're buying.
First up: The biggest pension fund in Canada.
Read our report card here: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/cppib-report...
@canadianshieldinstitute.caWe're calling for a mandate for all of Canada's pension funds to invest 3 per cent of assets in high-growth Canadian companies.
Read our report on the Maple 8, and why they're not doing enough to invest in Canada.
@canadianshieldinstitute.caThis is the crux of the problem! We've seen the big-money press releases from the Maple 8 pension funds, but that money won't really do much to drive homegrown Canadian companies.
@canadianshieldinstitute.caReposted by @canadianshieldinstitute.caOverall, Canadian pension funds don't invest much in Canada. But when you dig into the numbers around equity investing — and particularly private equity, which would capture high-growth companies — the numbers are dire.
Read the full analysis here: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/cana...
@canadianshieldinstitute.caOverall, Canadian pension funds don't invest much in Canada. But when you dig into the numbers around equity investing — and particularly private equity, which would capture high-growth companies — the numbers are dire.
Read the full analysis here: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/cana...
@jamespmcleod.caReposted by @canadianshieldinstitute.caCanadian pension funds should be mandated to invest 3 per cent of assets into high-growth Canadian companies.
Some of my @canadianshieldinstitute.ca colleagues and I wrote a policy paper on this.
@canadianshieldinstitute.caIs it too much to ask for Canada's biggest pension funds to invest 3 per cent of assets in real Canadian growth? We don't think so.
Today we're publishing a policy paper delving into how our biggest pension funds are actually investing our money.
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@canadianshieldinstitute.caCPPIB made big announcements for the Canada Investment Summit. A new fund targeting Canada. But the big picture here is that CPP’s investments in Canada have been falling for decades.
@canadianshieldinstitute.caWe dug into all of this in a lot more detail in our policy paper: “The Value of Foreign Direct Investment in the New Economy.” Read the full report here: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/reports/the-...
@canadianshieldinstitute.caCanada consistently outranks peers in foreign investment. In 2025, Canada's inward FDI stock exceeded our GDP. With a consistent increase in FDI, why is Canada not prospering? We need to consider how FDI can produce productive growth.
