Exposure to generic asset pricing factors can help deliver risk-adjusted returns, according to Ryan Taliaferro, senior vice-president and director of investment strategies at Acadian Asset Management, speaking during the Canadian Investment Review’s 2024 Risk Management Conference. These products tend to be available off the shelf in commercially available risk models and are typically marketed by exchange-traded […]
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is making three key appointments to its executive team, effective immediately. Its appointing Bernard Grzinic as executive managing director of capital markets, Steve Saldanha as executive managing director of total fund management and Robert Sturgeon as senior managing director of global investment strategy. Read: Ontario Teachers’ making key appointments to […]
In Ontario’s new defined benefit plan funding rules, the provisions for adverse deviation should be based on the plan’s asset mix, and a riskier asset mix should naturally require a higher PfAD, according to the Association of Canadian Pension Management’s submission to the provincial Ministry of Finance. “Using that logic and an understanding that fixed-income […]
Commercial mortgages making a comeback for plans seeking diversification