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ICPM celebrating 20 years of promoting strong pension governance practices

bmcgovern — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:00:44 +0000

The International Centre for Pension Management is celebrating 20 years of promoting strong pension governance practices by regularly engaging plan sponsor members, says Sebastien Betermier, the organization’s executive director. “It’s a milestone and it speaks to the value of having candid and quality exchanges among the pension funds . . . it’s a safe space for them […]

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2024 Global Investment Conference: How institutional investors can re-think active management to add value, generate alpha

lbailey — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:55:21 +0000

An active manager only adds value for clients through three distinct ways: interpreting information through their research and decision-making, the way they manage risk through their portfolio construction and the way they engage as active owners in the businesses they’re invested in, said John Chisholm, investment director of global and international equities at Schroders, during […]

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Pension fund investments support increased productivity at investee companies: report

bmcgovern — Fri, 31 May 2024 13:00:26 +0000

Firms that are backed by pension fund investments report increases in employee productivity of between three per cent and five per cent, according to a new report by the International Centre for Pension Management. The report, which is based on the collective research of 13 experts including representatives at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board […]

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ICPM appointing Julie Mallory to research committee

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:30:28 +0000

The International Centre for Pension Management is appointing Julie Mallory, managing director of portfolio strategy and investment risk at Ontario Power Generation Inc., to its research committee. Mallory, along with 11 other committee members, will be responsible for selecting one academic research program to receive a $50,000 award from the ICPM each year. Read: ICPM […]

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Institutional investors’ interest in digital assets on the rise: survey

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:25:02 +0000

The majority (71 per cent) of institutional investors expect to add digital assets to their investment portfolios within the next five years, according to a new survey by Fidelity Digital Assets. The survey, which polled 1,100 investors, asset managers and financial advisors in Asia, Europe and the U.S., found 52 per cent of respondents said […]

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Morningstar to acquire Sustainalytics

mschmit — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:39:03 +0000

Two big players in the investment research space are joining forces. Morningstar Inc., a U.S.-based independent research firm is fully acquiring Sustainalytics, a Dutch-domiciled firm specializing in environmental, social, and governance ratings and research. Morningstar already took on a 40 per cent ownership stake in Sustainalytics in 2017 and will be buying the remaining 60 […]

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The benefits of crowdsourcing investment research

mschmit — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 05:13:22 +0000

There’s a crisis in financial research because of statistical shortfalls, says Marcos López de Prado, a professor of practice at Cornell University’s school of engineering and chief investment officer of True Positive Technologies. “When a journal receives a paper, they don’t know how many experiments the researcher has conducted and, as a result, they cannot […]

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