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Canadian DB pension plan losses hit 5.5% in Q1: report

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 03 May 2022 15:30:57 +0000

Canada’s defined benefit pension plans saw average losses of 5.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2022, according to a new report by RBC Investor and Treasury Services. During the quarter, DB plans saw their largest overall contraction of worth since the first quarter of 2020. In a press release, Niki Zaphiratos, managing director of […]

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Value investing textbook aiming to correct academic misunderstandings: author

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 18:00:51 +0000

A new textbook on value investing is aiming to combat the academic community’s premature dismissal of the subject, says author George Athanassakos, professor of finance and the Ben Graham chair in value investing at Western University’s Ivey School of Business. “There are plenty of books on value investing — but not academic books. I decided […]

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Moving beyond a naive definition of value investing

mschmit — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:38:20 +0000

Stock picking with the right process and the right temperament works. And, contrary to popular claims, value investing is not dead. Those who claim it is dead, substantiate this by providing evidence that picking cheap stocks, meaning stocks with low price-to-earnings or price-to-book ratios, has been ineffective since the onset of the great recession. What […]

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