Is it time for an asset-strategy check-up?
At the time of my last column in May, many pension plan sponsors were catching their breath after watching funding levels take a roller coaster…
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The green shoots of Canada’s green bond market
Canada’s green bond market has been growing, but investors would benefit from digging a little deeper to ensure what they’re buying is in fact green…
- By: Catherine Heath
- August 19, 2020 February 5, 2021
- 09:08
Looking beyond the U.S. for quality fundamentals at the right price
US equities have dominated their global peers over the past decade. As of 30 June, the S&P 500 had returned 14.5 per cent per annum…
- By: Chris Horwood
- August 10, 2020 December 6, 2020
- 07:52
Higher tax rates expected in Biden administration
Former vice-president Joseph Biden will inherit an economy beleaguered by the battle against the coronavirus if he wins the election in November. The recession will…
- By: Katie Deal
- July 23, 2020 December 6, 2020
- 08:00
A fundamental problem with target-date funds
Target-date funds lead to defined contribution plan members taking more risk and becoming more diversified than they would be if left to their own devices.…
- By: Mark Yamada
- July 15, 2020 December 6, 2020
- 08:45
Coronavirus: a true test of partnership for private equity firms
As the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the way businesses operate, investors around the world have been able follow daily market gyrations in real time to…
- By: Tracey McVicar
- June 29, 2020 December 6, 2020
- 07:37
The slow burn of climate change in heat of pandemic
Meeting a deadline in the midst of a pandemic seems like a good test of corporate resiliency and, according to a recent survey of Canadian…
- By: Catherine Ann Marshall
- June 24, 2020 July 23, 2021
- 07:41
Is the time right for pension funds to consider litigation finance?
In the early days of litigation finance, most fund managers sold a concept and their own capabilities, but not much else. And risky strategies attracted…
- By: Edward Truant
- June 19, 2020 December 6, 2020
- 09:01
Is it time to revisit insurance-linked securities?
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has triggered major corrections in the equity, commodity and debt markets as participants try to gauge the full extent…
- By: Stephan Ruoff, deputy head, Schroder Secquaero
- June 2, 2020 December 6, 2020
- 07:33
Commercial litigation finance demand fuelled by coronavirus
In legal circles, it has always been thought that crises breed litigation. And while that appears to be the case in the current crisis, it…
- By: Edward Truant
- May 28, 2020 December 6, 2020
- 07:16
Pension de-risking and the coronavirus – what now?
It’s hard to believe that just recently, people weren’t cutting their own hair or binge-watching Tiger King. At the beginning of the year, defined benefit…
- By: Brent Simmons
- May 26, 2020 December 6, 2020
- 08:37
Troubled U.S. small business relief program a stopgap measure
Among the myriad fiscal responses to the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps none has received more attention in the U.S. than the federal programs for small businesses.…
- By: Katie Deal
- May 25, 2020 December 6, 2020
- 12:53
Extreme uncertainty produces extreme opportunities
The novel coronavirus pandemic has been an enormous human tragedy and its ultimate impact on the global economy remains impossible to predict. For many companies,…
- By: Chris Horwood
- May 13, 2020 December 6, 2020
- 09:26