momentum – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:02:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 How can pension plan sponsors manage factor exposure in equity portfolios? https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/public-equities/how-can-pension-plan-sponsors-manage-factor-exposure-in-equity-portfolios/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/public-equities/how-can-pension-plan-sponsors-manage-factor-exposure-in-equity-portfolios/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2020 03:56:43 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/how-can-pension-plan-sponsors-manage-factor-exposure-in-equity-portfolios/ While factor behaviour tends to be consistent in market crashes and corrections, individual factor performance varies over the medium term. As such, institutional investors should maintain diversified exposure across key equity factors including value, quality, momentum, size and low volatility, according to a new paper by Mercer. The paper explored the past three financial crises: […]

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]]> https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/public-equities/how-can-pension-plan-sponsors-manage-factor-exposure-in-equity-portfolios/feed/ 0 Coronavirus crisis sparks need for more investment analysis, monitoring https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/coronavirus-crisis-sparks-need-for-more-investment-analysis-monitoring/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/coronavirus-crisis-sparks-need-for-more-investment-analysis-monitoring/#respond Wed, 29 Apr 2020 03:58:51 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/coronavirus-crisis-sparks-need-for-more-investment-analysis-monitoring/ The current market environment isn’t like a regular market correction, but more like a natural disaster, says Joseph Connolly, vice-president of asset and risk management at Morneau Shepell Ltd. In the current context, investors should be doing more monitoring and looking at more timely data because mid-month or mid-quarter results may be stale. “We’re definitely […]

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]]> https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/coronavirus-crisis-sparks-need-for-more-investment-analysis-monitoring/feed/ 0 Unintended factor bias https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/unintended-factor-bias/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/unintended-factor-bias/#respond Thu, 16 Aug 2018 03:42:36 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/unintended-factor-bias/ Why your factor beta comes with a lot of noise.

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