Originally from our sister publication, Advisor.ca. The global financial system appears to have assumed the risk profile of a hockey game, where concussions are increasingly defining its current state of affairs. Julie Dickson, superintendent, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), drew the sports parallel while speaking Monday morning about Canada’s contribution to the […]
Originally from our sister publication, Advisor.ca. In the now-iconic scene set in Katz’s Delicatessen in New York City, a woman of some years mischievously asks her waiter to bring her the rye and pastrami sandwich she assumes was responsible for Meg Ryan’s character Sally’s head-turning display of euphoria. Portfolio envy is a lesser-known form of […]
Watch this video If you’re looking to diversify your portfolio, you need to consider emerging markets, says Peter Christoffersen, professor of finance with the Rotman School of Management. The past 10 to 15 years have brought a major shift in market correlations, with the correlations between developed markets rising dramatically—from approximately 40% a decade ago […]
In Aon Hewitt’s 2011 Global Pension Risk Survey, Canada is the region most heavily committed to open DB plans, while plan sponsors in the U.K. continue to close or freeze their DB plans at a relentless pace. One would then think that Canada would be a leader in adopting liability driven investing (LDI) strategies in […]
Supply/demand imbalance a boon for investors.
How to steer a super tanker through a hurricane.
The politics of taxation.
Coverage of the 2011 Risk Management Conference.
Watch this video The global investment landscape has shifted over the past 10 years in four key ways, says Sebastien Page, executive vice-president and head of the client analytics group for Pimco. The four drivers he lists are: A shift from focusing on data and models to macroeconomic forecasting. A switch from diversifying across asset […]
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