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2023 GIC coverage: How OPTrust is building resilient portfolios with help of external managers

lbailey — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:43:06 +0000

When investing in external asset managers, pension funds are really investing in teams of people, according to Brandon Gill New, director and head of multi-strategy investing and digital assets at the OPSEU Pension Trust, speaking during the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2023 Global Investment Conference. “It’s not like buying a stock or a bond,” she said, […]

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Report finds retirees with DB pension plans draw down savings slower than those with DC plans

lbailey — Tue, 31 May 2022 13:00:20 +0000

Retirees with defined benefit pension plans are less likely to draw down their savings to cover their spending than those with a defined contribution plan, according to a new report by the University of Michigan. It found while most employees born between 1920 and 1940 had access to a DB plan, this percentage dropped dramatically […]

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DGFs Lose Ground to Passive Equities

mschmit — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 06:59:19 +0000

But there are ways to turn it around: report.

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