risks – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Tue, 07 May 2024 19:55:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Is it time for pension plans to do away with absolute return benchmarks in infrastructure? https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/alts/is-it-time-for-pension-plans-to-do-away-with-absolute-return-benchmarks-in-infrastructure/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/alts/is-it-time-for-pension-plans-to-do-away-with-absolute-return-benchmarks-in-infrastructure/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2020 04:00:55 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/is-it-time-for-pension-plans-to-do-away-with-absolute-return-benchmarks-in-infrastructure/ For years, institutional investors have used absolute return or cash-plus benchmarks to measure infrastructure performance, but it’s time to put these in the past and adopt market-relevant benchmarks based on fair value and representative data, according a new paper by the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute. “From the viewpoint of the state of the art in financial […]

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]]> https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/alts/is-it-time-for-pension-plans-to-do-away-with-absolute-return-benchmarks-in-infrastructure/feed/ 0 Rising temperatures, global trade collapse, cybercrime top list of extreme risks for investors: report https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/rising-temperatures-global-trade-collapse-cybercrime-top-list-of-extreme-risks-for-investors-report/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/rising-temperatures-global-trade-collapse-cybercrime-top-list-of-extreme-risks-for-investors-report/#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2019 05:41:29 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/rising-temperatures-global-trade-collapse-cybercrime-top-list-of-extreme-risks-for-investors-report/ The top three extreme risks for investors to watch are global temperature change, global trade collapse and cyber warfare, according to a new report by Willis Towers Watson’s Thinking Ahead Institute. In the report, extreme risks are considered events that are highly unlikely to occur — but could have a large impact on economic growth […]

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]]> https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/rising-temperatures-global-trade-collapse-cybercrime-top-list-of-extreme-risks-for-investors-report/feed/ 0 Plan sponsors urged to take advantage of innovative pension plan design to mitigate risks https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/db-investments/plan-sponsors-urged-to-take-advantage-of-innovative-pension-plan-design-to-mitigate-risks/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/db-investments/plan-sponsors-urged-to-take-advantage-of-innovative-pension-plan-design-to-mitigate-risks/#respond Fri, 25 Jan 2019 06:38:43 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/plan-sponsors-urged-to-take-advantage-of-innovative-pension-plan-design-to-mitigate-risks/ In the fourth industrial revolution, technology is changing at a fast pace with a rolling effect on various industries. It’s also changing how people work, spend their money and save, said Jean-Philippe Provost, senior partner and wealth business leader at Mercer Canada. At the consultancy’s annual retirement outlook event on Thursday, Provost walked through current practices in the Canadian retirement […]

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]]> https://www.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/lessons-from-brexit/feed/ 0 5 Questions for HOOPP’s Jim Keohane https://www.benefitscanada.com/expertpanel_/jim-keohane-q-and-a/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/expertpanel_/jim-keohane-q-and-a/#respond Thu, 02 Mar 2017 07:21:38 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/jim-keohane-q-and-a/ What are the big risks in the market? And how could the Dodd-Frank rollback help pension funds?

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]]> https://www.benefitscanada.com/expertpanel_/jim-keohane-q-and-a/feed/ 0 Caisse Focuses On ‘All-terrain Portfolio’ As Return Drops to 7.6% https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/caisse-focuses-on-all-terrain-portfolio-as-return-drops-to-7-6/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/caisse-focuses-on-all-terrain-portfolio-as-return-drops-to-7-6/#respond Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:01:09 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/caisse-focuses-on-all-terrain-portfolio-as-return-drops-to-7-6/ CEO is looking for stability over results in 'such an uncertain environment'

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