pension fund management – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:16:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Expert panel: The different pathways to pursuing a total portfolio approach https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/db-investments/expert-panel-how-institutional-investors-are-cutting-through-the-confusion-of-a-total-portfolio-approach/ Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:00:20 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=160345 The total portfolio approach is gaining interest as a new investing strategy for pension funds and other asset owners, but its novel status may be deceiving. Indeed, the concept behind this approach has been at the core foundation of modern portfolio theory since the days when Nobel Prize winner Harry Markowitz showed that maximizing the […]

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]]> PSP Investments’ Eduard van Gelderen stepping down from SVP, CIO role https://www.benefitscanada.com/notice/appointment-notice/psp-investments-eduard-van-gelderen-stepping-down-from-svp-cio-role/ Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:00:27 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=159419 Eduard van Gelderen, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board’s senior vice-president and chief investment officer, is stepping down after six years with the organization. Effective immediately, Alexandre Roy, PSP Investments’ senior managing director of total fund management, will assume the CIO’s responsibilities on an interim basis, according to a press release. Read: PSP Investments appointing Oliver […]

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]]> 2023 GIC coverage: Institutional investors finding opportunities for high-yield in unlikely places https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/post-event-coverage/2023-gic-coverage-institutional-investors-finding-opportunities-for-high-yield-in-unlikely-places/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:46:14 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=137731 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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]]> 2022 Risk Management Conference: Institutional investors have a fiduciary duty to assess, mitigate climate-related risks https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/strategies/2022-risk-management-conference-institutional-investors-have-a-fiduciary-duty-to-assess-mitigate-climate-related-risks/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:55:45 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=126279 The climate crisis puts the security of workers’ retirements at stake, said Patrick DeRochie, senior manager at Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health, during a session at the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2022 Risk Management Conference. Pension plan sponsors’ investment decisions and their ability to achieve adequate returns for their members depends on a […]

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