Across from Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, where the wheels behind the force of the nation’s power in governance and oversight turn, a group of pension and investment professionals gathered at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in August for the Canadian Investment Review’s 2024 Risk Management Conference.

During the three-day conference, delegates — including defined benefit plan sponsors, endowment fund managers, asset managers and academics — discussed the many risks they’re facing amid a rapidly changing geopolitical and economic landscape.