According to the S&P Index versus Active Scorecard (SPIVA), about 75 % of
Canadian equity managers underperform the S&P Composite Index, and less than 10 % beat the S&P 500 ® Index on a five - year basis.
This will require
Canadian equity managers to sell Canadian stocks to fund the investment in foreign equities with the foreign managers.
Institutional clients could give
their Canadian equity managers the ability to invest in foreign equities.
It is more likely that they will take assets from
their Canadian equity managers and increase their foreign equity exposure with their existing international managers.
A typical investment policy would see
Canadian equity managers limited to Canadian equities benchmarked against the S&P TSX index and foreign equity managers managing foreign portfolios against foreign equity benchmarks such as the EAFE or S&P 500 indices.
These returns rank us among the top performing
Canadian equity managers in the country, and were achieved with lower risk ** than the market.
Not exact matches
Sometimes clients diversify across
Canadian equity mutual fund offered by various
managers.
He served as lead
manager on various US and
Canadian equity mandates at Bissett / Franklin Templeton.
Bill Dye, who joined Leith Wheeler in May 1985, is an analyst and portfolio
manager, and member of the firm's Management Committee with responsibility for
Canadian equities.
Morningstar: More than just rating fundsBridgehouse Asset
Managers, in collaboration with Morningstar Associates, has launched an actively managed
Canadian equity fund.
Notes: Source: Morningstar
Manager Research Paper, «Have Active
Canadian Equity Fund
Managers Earned Their Keep?»
The median MER of a
Canadian bond fund is about 1.5 %, and while that's lower than most
equity funds, bonds offer fewer opportunities for active
managers to add value.
Of particular note, all three pension
managers have materially cut their portfolio allocations to publicly traded
Canadian equities in the past three years.
Although Stephen Takacsy has amassed a strong base of dividend - paying stocks in the Lester
Canadian Equity Fund, the portfolio
manager is finding torque in technology names.
In fact, between 2008 and 2012, only 9.84 % of
Canadian equity fund
managers beat the S&P / TSX Composite Index.
Say, for example, a
Canadian equity fund beats the S&P / TSX Composite Index over some period, and the
manager takes credit for her superior stock - picking skills.
David Taylor, portfolio
manager of the IA Clarington Focused
Canadian Equity Class, which outperformed its peers in Morningstar's
Canadian Focused
Equity and
Canadian Equity categories with a return of 35.5 per cent, made a gutsy call in the first couple months of 2016.
The portfolio
manager of the Lester
Canadian Equity Fund, approximately one - third of which is in large - cap dividend payers, and the remainder focusing on smaller growth - oriented companies, highlighted protectionist policies such as tariffs and import taxes.
Pension and RRSP registered accounts largely used their scarce foreign property availability for foreign
equities and limited their bond
managers to
Canadian issuers.
Canada's stock market has been among the worst performing in the world this year, with many global fund
managers selling
Canadian equities and foreign short - sellers targeting everything from resource companies to the country's banks.
As opposed to their
Canadian equity portfolio management brethren,
Canadian bond
managers should do reasonably well after the FPL is removed.
Although the fund typically invests the majority of its assets in
Canadian stocks, the portfolio
manager may invest a meaningful portion in U.S.
equities in pursuit of opportunities not available in the
Canadian market.
Craig Jerusalim is a Portfolio
Manager on the
Canadian Equities team responsible for the CIBC
Canadian Equity Core Fund and other Canadian equity man
Equity Core Fund and other
Canadian equity man
equity mandates.
«A company with a high yield does not translate to a good company, nor a safe investment,» says Craig Jerusalim, portfolio
manager of
Canadian equities at CIBC Global Asset Management.
For example, do Japanese
managers investing in large - cap U.S
equity have a harder time outperforming the benchmark than
Canadian managers investing in the same opportunity set?
Funny how it didn't occur to the 96.7 % of
Canadian equity fund
managers who failed to beat the market benchmark over the last five years.
Bryan joined FGP in 2007 as a senior analyst covering the Telecom and Financial sectors and became FGP's Small Cap
Canadian Equity portfolio
manager in 2012.
«
Canadians are showing some strong interest in a range of investments, which has been reflected in
equity and real estate markets in the past several months,» says Bruce Gordon, Manulife Financial's senior executive vice-resident and general
manager, Canada, in a news release.