North America

CANADA/UK - Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Onex Corp. have garnered sufficient shareholder support for their £2.89bn ($4.4bn) purchase of Tomkins Plc.

CANADA/AUSTRALIA - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is to buy Intoll Group for A$3.44bn ($3bn) after increasing its initial offer for the Australian toll road operator.

AUSTRALIA/CANADA - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has teamed up with Australia's Future Fund to contribute A$750m ($665m) to Colonial First State Global Asset Management's restructured retail property fund.

CANADA - Ontario is to toughen pension funding requirements for companies and will strengthen its guarantee fund as part of a raft of reforms aimed at bolstering its pensions system.

CANADA - Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Canada's biggest pension-fund manager, posted a 2.3% return in the first half of this year, bolstered by investments in private equity and infrastructure.

CANADA/US - The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has signed a deal with Avista Capital Partners to buy INC Research Inc for an undisclosed sum.

AUSTRALIA/CANADA - Intoll Group expects to know whether an A$3.47bn ($3.1bn) bid from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) will go ahead before the end of the month.

CANADA - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board saw investments fall 1.3% in the fiscal first quarter due to declining equity markets.

UK/CANADA/ASIA - Standard Life has seen net corporate business inflows increase by 71% in the first half of the year.

UK/CANADA - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has set up a joint venture with Hammerson to acquire a £183m ($291m) City of London office block.