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2024 Endowment & Foundation Investment Forum: Central banks make soft landing after recession concerns

bmcgovern — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:59:33 +0000

Central banks are achieving a successful soft landing strategy after concerning periods of high inflation following the coronavirus pandemic, said Douglas Porter, chief economist and managing director at BMO Financial Group, during the keynote session at the Canadian Investment Review’s 2024 Endowment & Foundation Investment Forum in June. Inflation is receding from dangerous highs to […]

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Survey finds fewer Canadians working from home permanently in 2023

Jennifer Paterson — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:00:38 +0000

Fewer Canadians are working from home permanently in 2023, according to a new survey by Aviva Canada. Just 19 per cent of survey respondents said they’re doing so, compared to 27 per cent in 2022. However, the percentage of Canadian employees who said they’re working hybrid a few days each week increased to 29 per […]

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Experts weigh in on what investors should expect in 2022

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:00:30 +0000

Investors should expect the unexpected in 2022, according to George Athanassakos, professor of finance and the Ben Graham chair in value investing at Western University’s Ivey School of Business. “2022 is likely to be filled with hidden hazards, both known unknowns and unknown unknowns,” he wrote in an email to the Canadian Investment Review. This […]

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2021 IIC coverage: Considerations for pension plan sponsors in a post-pandemic political climate

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:59:14 +0000

However long the social, political and economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic may last, humanity and its economic systems have weathered the storm exceptionally well, said David Frum, a political commentator and senior editor at The Atlantic, during the keynote address at the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2021 Investment Innovation Conference. “We just put the entire world […]

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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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How Accurate Are Crowdsourced Economic Forecasts?

mschmit — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:04:51 +0000

Why crowdsourcing is a surprisingly accurate alternative to the consensus.

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