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The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a toonie featuring a black outer ring to honour Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September after 70 years on the throne. The Canadian Press The Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a new black-ringed toonie to honour Queen Elizabeth. The mint says the coin’s black outer ring is intended to evoke a “mourning armband” to honour the Queen, who died in September after 70 years on the throne. The mint says it will start to circulate nearly five million of the coins this month, and they will gradually appear as banks restock inventories. Aside from the black ring, the mint says the coin retains the same design elements of the standard toonie. Four different images of the Queen have graced Canadian coins since 1953, when she was crowned. The core of the commemorative toonie will feature the same portrait of the Queen that has been in circulation since 2003, with a polar bear design on the other side. “Queen Elizabeth II served as Canada’s head of state for seven ...

Alberta Investment Management Corp. has struck an agreement to jointly fund private loans to companies with Public Sector Pension Investment Board after hiring away one of PSP’s top executives. Alberta’s government-owned asset manager has hired David Scudellari to a new role as head of international investment. He joins AIMCo immediately as a senior executive managing director, reporting to chief executive officer Evan Siddall, from PSP Investments – the federal public sector pension manager. Under AIMCo and PSP’s new loan sourcing agreement, PSP will originate private credit investments that will be funded by both pension managers, with money earmarked by each. With Mr. Scudellari’s departure, the arrangement gives PSP additional funding to take advantage of the large pipeline of deals it sources, while AIMCo gets a chance to expand its credit business more rapidly than it otherwise could. Though large Canadian pension managers often work side by side on individual deals, AIMCo and ...