Features

A Return Enhancement Strategy for Canadian Fixed Income Portfolios
To what extent can excess returns in Canada's bond market be accurately predicted?...by Richard Deaves and Peter Miu

Default Rates of Canadian Corporate Bond Issuers
Are Canadian speculative-grade debt issuers more likely to default than their U.S. counterparts?....by David Hamilton and Sharon Ou

Watching the Weather Report
The forecast for weather derivatives: increased diversification and low correlation...by Melanie Cao, Anlong Li and Jason Wei

Special Report

Time to Go Fully Global?: The 2004 Global Investment Conference

Global winds of change...by John Murray

Macro under the microscope...by John Wald

Operating on global time...by John Chisholm

Global investing: new forces at work...by John Reinsberg

Value, country by country...by Peter Harrison

Currency: the key to performance...by Maxime Tessier

Active approaches to currency ...by Richard Meese

Asymmetric exchange rate exposure...by Anna Martin

Repos, risk and global portfolios...by Fred Francis

Emerging markets--and opportunities...by Hayes Miller

Better variance measurement...by Mark Kritzman

Is there a Chinese wall?...by Steven Wang

Two pillars of the Asian economy...by Prem Manjooran

Globalizing Canadian bond portfolios...by Ivan Rudolph-Shabinsky