Big in Canada, fund manager goes niche in China

TAL Global Asset Management, a wholly owned unit of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, is looking to expand its Greater China footprint, both by sub-advising pension providers in Hong Kong, as well as considering taking a stake in a mainland Chinese fund management company. The $41 billion manager is comfortably ensconced in Canada, where parent CIBC ranks as the biggest wealth management provider and the third-largest mutual funds player, and where TAL itself is ranked as Canada'…