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CPPIB appointing Priti Singh as senior managing director, chief risk officer

bmcgovern — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:00:28 +0000

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is appointing Priti Singh (pictured) as senior managing director and chief risk officer. Singh, who most recently served as senior managing director and global head of capital markets and factor investing, will replace Kristen Walters, who’s leaving the CPPIB after more than 30 years in risk management. Read: CPPIB […]

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2023 GIC coverage: Institutional investors finding opportunities for high-yield in unlikely places

lbailey — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:46:14 +0000

Institutional investors are entering a golden period ripe with opportunities in current global and emerging markets, said Karl Dasher, president of Polen Capital, during the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2023 Global Investment Conference. From early 2020 to the end of 2021, the market was flooded with liquidity from the unprecedented combination of fiscal stimulus, U.S. Federal Reserve […]

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There’s more pandemic-era punches to come for institutional investors

alessandrob — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:00:37 +0000

Mike Tyson’s one liner “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” comes to mind when I think of the predicament central banks must confront these days. The plan is, and has been, to keep interest rates low for an extended period. While the punch in the mouth is the building up […]

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Recession may be inevitable, but for how long?

mschmit — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 05:00:03 +0000

Investors and economists around the world are drastically changing their forecasts as the world enters another week of disruption from the spread of the coronavirus. Indeed, Scotiabank’s updated economic forecast suggests recession is inevitable in many countries, with global growth expected to average 1.3 per cent in 2020, the lowest level since the decline of […]

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What Investors Can Learn from eBay Bidders

mschmit — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 04:27:28 +0000

New research shows auction buyers sometimes overpay: rational ignorance

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Canada Scores a C Minus for Flood Preparedness

mschmit — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 09:39:28 +0000

New research shows that it's putting pension assets at risk.

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CIR Call For Papers

mschmit — Sun, 30 May 2010 04:57:09 +0000

CIR looking for investment-related research.

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Shadow Liquidity and the 15-Minute Market Meltdown

mschmit — Sun, 16 May 2010 10:29:48 +0000

When volume dries up.

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Thriving Without an RPP

mschmit — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:00:27 +0000

The pension debate is front and centre in Ottawa

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Denmark > U.S. in Household Debt

mschmit — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:25:17 +0000

Since the US has been the poster child for consumer debt, their showing versus other industrialized nations is surprising – in fact, it’s Denmark who’s actually in the lead.

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