investment research – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Thu, 02 May 2024 20:20:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 ICPM appointing Julie Mallory to research committee https://www.benefitscanada.com/notice/appointment-notice/icpm-appointing-julie-mallory-to-research-committee/ Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:30:28 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=140951 The International Centre for Pension Management is appointing Julie Mallory, managing director of portfolio strategy and investment risk at Ontario Power Generation Inc., to its research committee. Mallory, along with 11 other committee members, will be responsible for selecting one academic research program to receive a $50,000 award from the ICPM each year. Read: ICPM […]

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]]> Institutional investors’ interest in digital assets on the rise: survey https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/institutional-investors-interest-in-digital-assets-on-the-rise-survey/ Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:25:02 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=104895 The majority (71 per cent) of institutional investors expect to add digital assets to their investment portfolios within the next five years, according to a new survey by Fidelity Digital Assets. The survey, which polled 1,100 investors, asset managers and financial advisors in Asia, Europe and the U.S., found 52 per cent of respondents said […]

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]]> Morningstar to acquire Sustainalytics https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/morningstar-to-acquire-sustainalytics/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/morningstar-to-acquire-sustainalytics/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:39:03 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/morningstar-to-acquire-sustainalytics/ Two big players in the investment research space are joining forces. Morningstar Inc., a U.S.-based independent research firm is fully acquiring Sustainalytics, a Dutch-domiciled firm specializing in environmental, social, and governance ratings and research. Morningstar already took on a 40 per cent ownership stake in Sustainalytics in 2017 and will be buying the remaining 60 […]

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]]> https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/morningstar-to-acquire-sustainalytics/feed/ 0 The benefits of crowdsourcing investment research https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/the-benefits-of-crowdsourcing-investment-research/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/the-benefits-of-crowdsourcing-investment-research/#respond Fri, 25 Oct 2019 05:13:22 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/the-benefits-of-crowdsourcing-investment-research/ There’s a crisis in financial research because of statistical shortfalls, says Marcos López de Prado, a professor of practice at Cornell University’s school of engineering and chief investment officer of True Positive Technologies. “When a journal receives a paper, they don’t know how many experiments the researcher has conducted and, as a result, they cannot […]

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