Ontario Teachers

Sustainability

Ontario Teachers’ leading net zero strategy

For asset owners wanting to know how to set interim targets for your net zero portfolios, here’s how to do it. Amanda White speaks with Deborah Ng from Ontario Teachers’ on their world-class approach.

Amanda WhiteOctober 26, 2021

Fixed Income

OTPP boosts bonds, late cycle protection

OTPP increased its bond allocation from 22 to 31 per cent last year. The defensive strategy was aimed at taking advantage of rising yields in fixed income markets and protecting the portfolio from a potential economic slowdown given the late cycle and decade-long economic expansion.

Sarah RundellApril 6, 2019

Opinion

How to hedge long-term inflation-linked liabilities without inflation-linked instruments

Given the capacity constraints on local inflation-linked bond markets, what are other options for hedging long-term inflation-linked liabilities? This is a question Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has been deliberating on as it supports an academic chair at EDHEC-Risk Institute with a focus on analysing the design of novel forms of liability-hedging portfolios that do not […]

November 26, 2014

Uncategorised posts

Benchmarking ESG changes behaviour

The power of benchmarking funds on sustainability is demonstrated by the fact 171 property companies and funds surveyed in the 2012 GRESB benchmarking report reduced GHG emissions by 6 per cent – this is a reduction of 432,000 metric tons of CO2, the equivalent of removing 85,000 cars from the road. The Global Real Estate […]

Amanda WhiteSeptember 19, 2012