I'm interested in why
Canadian equities have such a large share, relative to their size in the world.
Canadian equities have plunged recently on declining commodity demand from Asia and Europe.
So far, the S&P TSX is among the worst performing markets in the world this year; over a longer horizon, it doesn't get much better, with
Canadian equities having delivered a paltry 4 per cent annualized return over the past decade.»
In a blog post on Sept. 26, I noted that
Canadian equities had fallen by about 5 % since the beginning of the month, which could have triggered one such opportunity.
Not exact matches
Some
equity analysts lowered ratings on
Canadian companies they previously believed might be takeover targets (Talisman Energy, for example), invoking the logic that the Petronas - Progress blockage
would drive foreign buyers to shop elsewhere.
Some big brains believe Barnes is right: Farmers Edge recently raised nearly $ 60 million in
equity investments to help support aggressive international expansion, and the company
has recruited former Monsanto, DuPont and
Canadian Wheat Board executives into its fold.
• According to the same report, 21 per cent of
Canadians who purchased their home before 1990 still haven't paid it off after more than 27 years, while one per cent of
Canadians who purchased homes between 2014 and 2016
have negative
equity in their property.
Stanton then posted a job opening for a
Canadian equity analyst — the same position Quenneville
had just been dismissed from.
Flush with cash withdrawn from the
equity in their homes and other borrowed money,
Canadian consumers
have gone on a spending spree with gains spread across a wide variety of retail sectors, including vehicles, building materials, home furnishings, clothing and food.
When
Canadians have higher
equity stakes in their homes, it imparts more stability to the market.
Just for fun, I
've included a numerical example here using 2011 year - to - date numbers for a money market fund, a bond ETF and three
equity ETFs representing
Canadian, U.S. and international stocks.
Common shares: Of the five categories of blue - chip
Canadian equities that I continually monitor, only one, financials,
had a negative total return this year at -6.5 %.
It
has received funding from the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, which will buy about US$ 500 million of the
equity, and
Canadian private
equity firm West Face Capital, which will buy US$ 250 million of the new HBC
equity.
The company confirmed Thursday it is in «active discussions regarding a transaction that
would result in an acquisition of the entire
Canadian business,» as the U.S. company seeks approval in its bankruptcy proceedings for the sale of its
equity interest in the
Canadian business.
It
has received commitments from the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, which will buy about US$ 500 million of the
equity, and
Canadian private
equity firm West Face Capital, which will buy US$ 250 million of the new HBC
equity.
In the last three years, we
've seen Tandem Expansion Fund and now OMERS Ventures step into that void as
Canadian technologically - focused growth
equity guys.
«We
've seen a large decline in
Canadian gas production,» says Patrick Reddy,
Canadian equity analyst with Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel in Vancouver.
«The absence of adequate market access for crude oil out of Canada
has repeatedly impeded
equity valuations and is once again driving a wedge between the performance of
Canadian investments and global alternatives,» it said.
This new clearing house, which requires approval from
Canadian regulators,
would allow companies to issue conventional
equity and debt using a digital token representing a share in a business, also known as a tokenized security.
In order to know whether or not you're achieving your employment
equity goals, you need to know how many aboriginal
Canadians, women, people with disabilities and members of a visible minority
have a PhD in economics.
The Horizons Enhanced
Equity ETF (HEX / TSX) holds 30 large cap
Canadian stocks that also
have liquid options markets.
The entire
Canadian equity market
has been hit hard this year.
The changes to the
Canadian securities laws if adopted
would allow the general public to invest in
equity crowdfunding online, and companies to offer small amounts of
equity with less disclosure thus driving the cost of raising capital lower and widening participation at the same time.
TORONTO / NEW YORK (Reuters)-
Canadian pension plan Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System
has been talking with major U.S. and
Canadian private
equity firms about selling land registry company Teranet in a deal that could fetch about C$ 3 billion ($ 2.4 billion), according to people familiar with the situation.
The bank
has the highest return on
equity among the
Canadian lenders at 19.3 per cent.
Still, most literature
has focused on each country in isolation — there
have been reports on UK
equity crowdfunding, articles on
Canadian equity crowdfunding, and books on US
equity crowdfunding — but very little on
equity crowdfunding in totality, and nothing at all on what campaigns from different parts of the world can learn from each other.
The strength of the
Canadian loonie, which recently hit three - year highs, and continues to climb,
has been a drag for many investors who bought into U.S. and international
equities during the past few years.
Currently, both Ontario and Saskatchewan
have published specific proposals for an
equity Crowdfunding framework while other members of the
Canadian Securities Administrators are also looking at how securities can be sold over the internet under existing securities law.
It's not all doom and gloom for
Canadian stocks / Financial Post «It
has been a tough run for
Canadian investors, especially those who
have stayed closer to home when it comes to their
equity portfolios.
Strong
equity markets
would only elevate the incentive to buy
Canadian fixed - income securities because of a recent connection between the S&P 500 and the loonie.
Since
Canadian equity crowdfunding regulations were released in 2015 and 2016, how
has it changed traditional and alternative finance markets?
Should the Aussie and the
Canadian Dollar pick up some bullish momentum, we could be in for a more durable rally in
equities too, as they
have been leading risk assets in recent weeks.
In this three - part series, we examine whether «conservative»
Canadian business culture is
having a negative effect on
equity crowdfunding taking hold in Canada.
«When we filed for creditor protection, we announced that in order to proceed with the recapitalization plan, we
would require a new
Canadian equity investment of at least $ 65 million,» Canwest spokesman John Douglas said.
«Given that Canada's foreign policy
has put gender
equity issues prominently at the top of its agenda, obviously this is something we wanted to highlight here: That you
have a
Canadian company actively undermining those rights abroad by facilitating censorship in countries where those rights aren't respected or recognized,» Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, told me over the phone.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Kaushal
has worked in senior roles with a number of
Canadian investment banks, including Desjardins Securities Inc., Orion Securities Inc., Vengate Capital Partners Company, HSBC Securities Inc., Medwell Capital Corp. and Gordon Capital, and
has held various roles within the private
equity / venture capital industry.
Kirk Falconer PE Hub — IPO (Canada) Jeld - Wen Holding Inc (NYSE: JELD)
has priced a secondary offering of 12.5 million shares at US$ 33.75 per unit for certain investors, including
Canadian private
equity firm Onex Corp..
Kirk Falconer PE Hub — IPO (Canada)
Canadian steelmaker Stelco Inc (TSX: STLC) said a syndicate of underwriters
has agreed to buy $ 217.5 million of the company's common shares from U.S. private
equity firm Bedrock Industries Group.
Kirk Falconer PE Hub — IPO (Canada) STEP Energy Services Ltd, a Calgary coiled tubing and fracturing solutions provider,
has launched a secondary offering of common shares on behalf of ARC Financial Corp, a
Canadian energy private
equity firm.
But the
Canadian Equity Eseries is
has only returned 5.4 % versus 8.5 % for the normal index fund.
Edmonton, April 11, 2016 —
Canadian Western Bank (CWB) is proud to
have recently been recognized by Employment and Social Development Canada at the inaugural Employment
Equity Achievement Awards in the category of Improved Representation.
Until there is better data and an improved understanding of the full market forces that
have driven Vancouver's and Toronto's hot real estate markets, political action at this time could drive
equity into the ground and impact ordinary
Canadians, and the larger economy, in many unforeseeable ways.
Canadian Western Bank (CWB) is proud to
have recently been recognized by Employment and Social Development Canada at the inaugural Employment
Equity Achievement Awards in the category of Improved Representation.
Canadian stocks also
had a topsy - turvy first quarter, but ended up being one of the top - performing developed
equity markets given the outsized exposure to firming commodity prices.
In addition, SMART Saver women
have less of their assets in cash (56 %) than other
Canadian women (66 %), and are far more likely to
have portfolio exposures to
equities, bonds and investment properties.
Canadians have more
equity in their homes than Americans did, the default rate is lower, the sub-prime market is tiny, and mortgage interest is not tax - deductible, so there's no incentive to build up debt.
TMX Group, a
Canadian financial services company that operates
equities, fixed income, derivatives, and energy markets exchanges,
has posted a series of short online...
When we owned mutual funds we
had a few different
Canadian equity funds as well as US, International and emerging market funds.
Moreover, global stocks
have delivered a slightly better return on
equity this century than
Canadian listed companies, despite wide variability across geographies and time.
I replaced the global fund with XAW (All World EX Canada) & I liked the
Canadian Equity fund so much that I just moved it to a Series
D fund with lower MER.