North America

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.

CANADA/UK - The board of car parts manufacturer Tomkins has backed the 325p per share cash offer from Onex and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) despite strong opposition from shareholder Standard Life Investments.