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2023 GIC coverage: Green buildings reaping attractive risk-adjusted returns for institutional investors

lbailey — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:45:44 +0000

There’s a distinct window of opportunity for institutional investors to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns through refurbishing brown buildings in Europe to make them operationally carbon neutral, said Lucy Swinton, investment director at Fidelity International, during the Canadian Investment Review’s 2023 Global Investment Conference. Environmental, social and governance — particularly the ‘E’ aspects — is increasingly becoming a disruptive […]

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2022 GIC coverage: Canada’s Maple 8 pension funds outperforming peers on a global scale

lbailey — Mon, 30 May 2022 12:51:54 +0000

Canada’s Maple 8 — the country’s largest eight public pension plans that manage a total of about $2 trillion in assets — use similar governance structures to consistently deliver strong returns. Pension systems around the world are difficult to manage, said Sebastien Betermier, an associate professor of finance at the Desautels Faculty of Management at […]

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2022 GIC coverage: Institutional investors seeking better risk-adjusted returns should turn to emerging market debt

lbailey — Mon, 30 May 2022 12:50:45 +0000

Canadian institutional investors should have a strategic allocation to emerging market debt, Ward Brown, fixed income portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management, explained during his session. EM debt has two of the key characteristics needed for a strategic allocation. First, it is a good diversifier because it has low correlations with other assets commonly found […]

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A private markets perspective on the pandemic in 2020 and beyond

mschmit — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 10:29:59 +0000

What a difference a year makes. At this time in 2019, initial reports of a novel virus to be called COVID-19 were just beginning to come out of China, and the pandemic was still months from becoming front-page news around the world. Investors were busy instead planning for another regular year in 2020, setting return […]

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Pulling the Goalie and Investment Decisions

mschmit — Thu, 10 May 2018 08:29:02 +0000

Asness and Brown have hockey lessons for money managers

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Making A Case for Global Real Estate

mschmit — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:06:50 +0000

Invesco demonstrates how Canadian DB plans can take advantage of specific real estate opportunities.

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