The Ontario Securities Commission has awarded five research grants of CAD 30,000 each under its inaugural OSC Research Grant Competition, which it launched in November 2025 to support research, discussion and debate on the competitiveness of Ontario’s capital markets. The grants were awarded to Queen’s University, the University of Calgary, the University of Ottawa, the University of Toronto Scarborough, and Wilfrid Laurier University. The selected projects will examine the competitiveness of Canadian exchange-traded funds in the North American market, drivers of the decline in Canadian public companies and options to reinvigorate public capital markets, distributional outcomes in prediction markets, the relationship between market competitiveness and stock price efficiency in Ontario, and retail execution quality in Canada and the United States. The OSC expects to publish the final research papers on its website later this year.
Ontario Securities Commission2026-05-27
Ontario Securities Commission awards five CAD 30000 research grants on capital markets competitiveness
The Ontario Securities Commission has awarded five CAD 30,000 research grants under its inaugural OSC Research Grant Competition to support work on the competitiveness of Ontario’s capital markets. The funded projects, undertaken by five Canadian universities, will examine topics including exchange-traded fund competitiveness, the decline in Canadian public companies, prediction market outcomes, links between market competitiveness and stock price efficiency, and retail execution quality in Canada and the United States.