S&P – 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 CFOs overconfident on market predictions: paper https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/cfos-overconfident-on-market-predictions-paper/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/cfos-overconfident-on-market-predictions-paper/#respond Wed, 26 Aug 2020 04:29:47 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/cfos-overconfident-on-market-predictions-paper/ Chief financial officers may be over-confident when it comes to investment forecasts, even when they’ve been proven wrong in the past, according to a new paper by researchers at Duke University and Ohio State University. “Senior financial executives’ beliefs of the mean of the distribution of S&P 500 returns are accurate, but they appear to […]

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]]> https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/cfos-overconfident-on-market-predictions-paper/feed/ 0 What does Fitch’s downgrade of Canada mean for institutional investors? https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/what-does-fitchs-downgrade-of-canada-mean-for-institutional-investors/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/what-does-fitchs-downgrade-of-canada-mean-for-institutional-investors/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:02:44 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/what-does-fitchs-downgrade-of-canada-mean-for-institutional-investors/ Since 2004, Canada has held a AAA rating from all major ratings agencies, but on June 24, it suffered a blow when Fitch Ratings Inc. downgraded the country to AA+. “The rating downgrade reflects the deterioration of Canada’s public finances in 2020 resulting from the coronavirus pandemic,” said the Fitch in a rating action commentary […]

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