Toronto-based JovFinancial Solutions Inc. has approved a change in portfolio manager for several of its funds. Toronto-based IA Clarington Investments Inc. will replace JovFinancial as portfolio manager for the following funds: Jov Leon Frazer Bond Fund, Jov Leon Frazer Dividend Fund, Jov Leon Frazer Preferred Equity Fund, Jov Hahn Conservative ETF Portfolio, Jov Hahn Income […]
Toronto-based BMO Life Insurance Co. has launched the BMO Guaranteed Investment Funds (GIFs) lineup of five new segregated funds designed to offer a maturity guarantee on principal with automatic monthly resets to lock in gains, balanced exchange-traded fund investment options and a death benefit guarantee. The new BMO GIFs are: BMO Canadian Balanced Growth Fund, […]
Toronto-based Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC has reduced the management fee on PowerShares Senior Loan (CAD Hedged) Index ETF to 0.8%, a drop of 0.1%. The ETF, which was one of the first senior-loan ETFs, provides access to an asset class that historically has delivered higher yield than other fixed-income securities of equal or higher […]
Montreal-based Standard Life Mutual Funds Ltd. (SLMF) will terminate Standard Life U.S. Mid Cap Fund, Standard Life Global Equity Focus Fund and Standard Life India Equity Focus Fund on or about Nov. 29. Units of the funds are no longer available for new investments, including additional purchases by existing unitholders and through regular investment plans. […]
Montreal-based O’Leary Funds Management LP has launched O’Leary Floating Rate Income Fund, which seeks to provide income by investing in a diversified portfolio made up primarily of senior floating-rate loans, floating-rate notes and short-duration corporate bonds of investment-grade and non-investment-grade Canadian and global issuers. The fund’s portfolio-management team is headed by Connor O’Brien, chief investment […]
Toronto-based CIBC Asset Management Inc. has changed portfolio managers within its emerging-markets lineup. The changes include the addition of RS Investment Management Co. LLC of San Francisco, Harding Loevner LP of Bridgewater, N.J., and New York-based Pzena Investment Management LLC as portfolio subadvisors to the emerging-markets investment mandates for Imperial Emerging Economies Pool and Frontiers […]
Toronto-based Invesco Canada Ltd. has promoted Eric Lindenbaum and Jack Deino to co-heads of Invesco’s emerging-markets debt business. They also will take over as lead portfolio managers for Invesco Emerging Markets Debt Fund. Claudia Calich, who previously served as portfolio manager for the fund, will be leaving Invesco. The fund’s investment objectives, philosophy and process […]
Toronto-based Manulife Mutual Funds has launched four new mutual funds: Manulife Global Balanced Fund, Manulife U.S. Dollar Floating Rate Income Fund, Manulife Canadian Conservative Balanced Fund and Manulife Preferred Income Class. Manulife Global Balanced Fund seeks to provide investors with a diversified approach to global equities and fixed-income investing and will be managed by Calgary-based […]
Toronto-based CI Investments Inc. has introduced Cambridge Global Dividend Fund, which provides investors with the opportunity to achieve a high level of total investment return consisting of dividend income and capital gains, primarily by investing in equities of companies anywhere in the world that pay or may be expected to pay dividends. Units also are […]
Calgary-based Canoe Financial LP, portfolio manager of EnerVest Diversified Income Trust and Canoe mutual funds, has announced that Robert Taylor, senior vice president and portfolio manager with Canoe Financial, has assumed portfolio-management responsibilities for EnerVest Diversified Income Trust, Canoe Canadian Monthly Income Class, Canoe Canadian Asset Allocation Class, Canoe Canadian Equity Class and Canoe Capital […]