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How active management strategies are helping institutional investors amid volatile global marketplace

lbailey — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:57:55 +0000

As global markets navigate turbulent economic waters, active management is proving once again to be a lifeline for institutional investors to ensure their portfolios ride out the storm. Pension funds are currently operating amid uncertainty and potential risk, says Ruslan Goyenko, an associate professor of finance at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. “There are […]

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68% of global employers view talent attraction, economic growth uncertainty as business threats: survey

lbailey — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:00:13 +0000

More than two-thirds of global employers view the lack of key talent and uncertain economic growth (68 per cent for both) as the top threats to their businesses, according to a survey by Russell Reynolds Associates. The survey, which polled more than 2,500 global board directors, C-suite leaders and next-generation leaders, found 62 per cent of […]

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Survey finds 40% of Canadian gen Z employees at a mental-health ‘breaking point’

Sadie Janes — Mon, 08 May 2023 19:00:38 +0000

Roughly 40 per cent of generation Z employees say they’re at a mental-health “breaking point,” according to a new survey by Boston Consulting Group. The survey, which polled more than 1,300 young Canadian employees, found twice as many millennials and gen Z workers said they want a workplace culture that prioritizes mental health and well-being, […]

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Central bankers downplaying long-term inflation risk: paper

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:00:52 +0000

Central bankers in developed economies are downplaying the risk of long-term inflation rises, according to a new paper by the Fraser Institute. “Absent a sharp reversal of central bank programs of quantitative easing, forecasts that inflation will return to the two per cent target rate of central banks by mid-2022 at the latest are likely […]

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Cryptocurrency sentiment growing bearish, finds survey

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:30:52 +0000

Canadian investors and advisors were skeptical about cryptocurrency in the second quarter of 2021, according to a new quarterly survey by Horizons ETF Management Inc. Canadian investors and investment advisors are more bearish about cryptocurrency than any other measured asset class. As part of the survey, Canadian investors and investment advisors were asked to rate […]

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Economist says NAFTA’s demise ‘vastly overstated’

mschmit — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:36:13 +0000

Panel of economists discuss uncertainty and Canada's prospects for 2018 at Defined Benefit Investment Forum.

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The Price of Political Uncertainty

mschmit — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 09:34:15 +0000

A few helpful lessons in an uncertain age.

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Political Risk Keeping Investors Up At Night

mschmit — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:57:46 +0000

Nationalism, low growth worry investment professionals: survey

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