State Street Corporation, provider of financial services to institutional investors, has been appointed by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario (WSIB) to provide a full range of investment services for its Pension Fund, Loss of Retirement Income Fund and Insurance Fund totaling CAD$15 billion in assets.
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board administers Ontario’s no-fault workplace insurance plan for workers and employers and oversees the province’s workplace safety education and training system. State Street will provide custody, accounting, securities lending and investment analytics services across the three funds.
“We are very pleased to be appointed by WSIB for this new mandate,” said Ronald Robertson, senior vice president and managing director of State Street’s investment servicing business in Canada. “This mandate exemplifies our commitment to providing Canadian investment managers with a high level of client service, local expertise and the global scale to help meet their investment objectives.”
State Street has provided investment servicing and management solutions to Canada’s financial services community for more than twenty years. With more than 1,200 employees in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, State Street provides a broad array of services to many of Canada’s leading institutional investors.
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