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Institutional investors considering geopolitical risk, inflation in portfolio construction

Sadie Janes — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 14:00:54 +0000

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, institutional investors are increasingly factoring geopolitical risks into portfolio construction, according to John Bai, senior vice-president and chief investment officer at NEI Investments, during a 2023 economic outlook seminar hosted by the Canadian Pension and Benefits Institute on Wednesday. “All of a sudden, geopolitical risks went from […]

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2022 DBIF coverage: The impact of political, global macro risk on global markets

Gideon Scanlon — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 12:57:25 +0000

“I’m going to start my presentation by saying what any self-respecting consultants say all the time — we got it wrong,” said Andrew Bishop, senior partner and global head of policy research at Signum Global Advisors, during a session at the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2022 Defined Benefit Investment Forum. “I’m referring to China’s easing of […]

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2022 Risk Management Conference: Long-term implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for emerging market investors

lbailey — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:48:06 +0000

For years prior to the Russia-Ukraine war, there were murmurs about deglobalization as geostrategic tensions grew, nationalism flared worldwide and the coronavirus pandemic stressed global supply chains, said Seth Weingram, senior vice-president and director of client advisory at Acadian Asset Management, during the Canadian Investment Review’s 2022 Risk Management Conference. Since the invasion, that discussion […]

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Russia divestment promises by U.S. pension funds largely unfulfilled

Jennifer Paterson — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 19:00:52 +0000

Six months into a war that has killed thousands of Ukrainians and displaced more than 12 million more, most of the pledges by U.S. pension funds, university endowments and other public sector holdings to drop Russian investments have gone unfulfilled, according to an Associated Press review, state retirement administrators and firms that invest state funds. […]

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CPPIB backing of grain exporter provides Russia propaganda victory: expert

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:30:21 +0000

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s investment in a grain exporter may be used as a propaganda tool by the Russian government, according to J. Paul Goode, McMillan chair in Russian studies at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University. “If a company as important as Viterra is to the Canada […]

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2022 GIC coverage: Fixed income markets keeping calm, carrying on amid global uncertainty

lbailey — Mon, 30 May 2022 12:55:03 +0000

With increased market volatility due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, central banks in the West looking to tighten monetary policies as the world begins emerging from the coronavirus pandemic and higher, more persistent inflation than anticipated, bond investors are in for a wild ride, said Samantha Klein, lead of institutional business for T. Rowe Price […]

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2022 Top 40 Money Managers Report: Geopolitics roaring back into focus for institutional investors

bwolfe — Fri, 13 May 2022 12:53:57 +0000

While politics plays a role in most investment decisions, it tends to arise on a fairly localized basis, says Michael Craig, head of the asset allocation and derivatives teams at TD Asset Management Inc. In addition, its prominence as a factor usually rises and falls on a cycle, slipping easily off investors’ radar in times […]

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Two years later: DB plans out of the pandemic frying pan, into the geopolitical fire

Gideon Scanlon — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:30:01 +0000

The second year of the coronavirus pandemic offered defined benefit pension plan sponsors a reprieve from the chaos sown in financial markets during its first year. “A lot of pension plans ended up roughly where they started in 2020, but it was a very bumpy road,” says Gavin Benjamin, a retirement and financial solutions partner […]

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FTSE Russell set to add Chinese government bonds to world government bond index

mschmit — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 07:54:32 +0000

Chinese government bonds are set to be included in the FTSE Russell world government bond index. The changes came off the back of the index provider’s latest country classification review, with the inclusion reflecting China’s ongoing progress toward market reforms and increased access for global investors, according to FTSE Russell. The inclusion is scheduled to […]

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IMF downgrades outlook for global economy in face of virus

mschmit — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 05:49:18 +0000

The International Monetary Fund has sharply lowered its forecast for global growth this year because it envisions far more severe economic damage from the coronavirus than it did just two months ago. The IMF predicts that the global economy will shrink 4.9 per cent this year, significantly worse than the three per cent drop it […]

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