benchmarks – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Fri, 03 May 2024 21:03:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 2023 GIC coverage: How OPTrust is building resilient portfolios with help of external managers https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/post-event-coverage/2023-gic-coverage-how-optrust-is-building-resilient-portfolios-with-help-of-external-managers/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:43:06 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=137887 When investing in external asset managers, pension funds are really investing in teams of people, according to Brandon Gill New, director and head of multi-strategy investing and digital assets at the OPSEU Pension Trust, speaking during the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2023 Global Investment Conference. “It’s not like buying a stock or a bond,” she said, […]

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]]> CPPIB launches network of asset managers, data contributors to enhance investment strategy https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/cppib-launches-network-of-asset-managers-data-contributors-to-enhance-investment-strategy/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 16:30:43 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=119154 The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is partnering with New York-based data encryption firm Inpher Inc. to create a private network of asset managers and data contributors. The network will allow the CPPIB to derive insight from distinctive data sources to enhance investment research and generate returns above industry benchmarks, according to a press release, […]

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]]> The darker side of benchmark linked-investments https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/the-darker-side-of-benchmark-linked-investments/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/the-darker-side-of-benchmark-linked-investments/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2019 03:58:49 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/the-darker-side-of-benchmark-linked-investments/ While investing in products underpinned by a benchmark can offer opportunities for investors, these products and their benchmarks are not without problems, according to research from the Healthy Markets Association. For example, the benchmarks used in these products may be subject to conflicts of interest, at risk of being manipulated and not be transparent enough, the study said. “Conflicts […]

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