Whether they’re up or down, you can almost always make a case for participating in commodities markets as long as you can stomach the dizzying swings on the price charts. But how to buy in isn’t always so clear. “The cleanest way to get exposure is to buy the actual commodity,” notes Tim Pickering, CEO […]
Most people who take voting seriously pay close attention to party platforms. There’s no guarantee the winner will keep its promises, but those stances provide the only clear insight into what a majority government would do with Parliamentary carte blanche. We asked two industry experts to analyze key aspects of the Conservatives’ policies, such as […]
It’s increasingly difficult for active managers to generate alpha, argues Craig Lazzara, senior director, Index Investment Strategy at S&P Dow Jones Indices. He spoke on a panel at a CFA Society Toronto event Wednesday.
Investor interest over the next five years will gradually shift back towards active strategies.
Hunting for alpha isn’t just about stock picking, say three portfolio managers.
Originally from our sister publication, Advisor.ca. Should investors chisel their portfolios onto granite and wait them out for the long haul, regardless of what happens in the markets on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis? Or should money managers take a more flexible approach to the way they slice up their clients’ asset class percentages? […]
Originally from our sister publication, Advisor.ca. Investors should be cautiously optimistic about the outlook for Canada and emerging markets, two top experts at BMO said during a conference call on Friday. The Canadian scene On the economic front, we continue to perform relatively well,” said Paul Taylor, chief investment officer, BMO Harris Private Banking. Both […]
Ontario’s new rules for dividing pensions on marriage breakdowns are a welcome development, Ian Edelist, pension practice leader at Eckler Ltd., said during an Association of Canadian Pension Management webinar this week. Processing separation agreements tends to “make pension administrators cringe, but the new rules will help with that cringe factor,” Edelist said, adding that […]
Two of the hottest topics in pension fund management today are de-risking and whether traditional asset allocation strategies have failed. Two industry experts weighed in on these topics during a panel discussion at the recent Canada Cup of Investment Management, held in Toronto. De-risking: old tool in a new wrapper? William Solomon, a consulting actuary […]
Consumer confidence is higher now than it was in November of last year and people are also felling better about their fiances, according to the latest Harris/Decima-Investor’s Group Measure of Consumer Confidence. The overall measure of consumer confidence increased from 82.8 in November 2010 to 86.2 today. Nineteen percent of respondents said they were better […]