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Back to basics on private credit
BY Martha Porado | March 6, 2019
Canadian institutional investors are taking on more private credit, both as a replacement for equity, as well as a tool to enhance their fixed-income allocations, ...
Local lessons: a Texas plan’s outlook on investments
BY Yaelle Gang | February 22, 2019
In a market environment where finding returns is tough, the Employees Retirement System of Texas turned to emerging markets and alternatives to provide the pension ...
Technology and talent working in tandem
BY Yaelle Gang | February 20, 2019
Over the past several years, companies have focused on cost-cutting, but the scope to do this has been declining. At the same time, productivity growth ...
OMERS Ventures talks innovation
BY Yaelle Gang | February 15, 2019
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is a direct investor across all its asset classes; however, as it continued to get bigger, it was missing ...
A look at macro trends driving DB pension investment strategies
BY Martha Porado | February 1, 2019
It’s too early in the rise of populism to determine whether it will turn out to be a secular or a cyclical trend, according to John ...
Populism here to stay, economy already feeling the consequences
BY Yaelle Gang | January 17, 2019
Rewind to 2017. It was a very unusual year, with global growth receiving a boost from a combination of ultra-supportive financial conditions, a temporary boom ...
Taking the North American economy’s temperature
BY Martha Porado | January 15, 2019
For those worried the cycle is about the turn, it’s important to consider that there is no established length for a market cycle, said Avery ...
ESG: Valuing the intangibles
BY Scot Blythe | December 19, 2018
Share price dispersion remains prevalent in equity markets, but today’s active managers are having difficulty extracting alpha. They may not be looking in the right ...
Living in the midst of risk: why population shifts are unavoidable
BY Scot Blythe | December 18, 2018
Risk takes many forms and extends beyond investing. With 25 years in the CIA, David Bridges, now a research analyst at Fidelity Investments, thinks we may ...
Four disruptive trends facing fixed income
BY Caroline Cakebread | December 18, 2018
When it comes to disruption, people typically talk about technology and its impact on jobs, society, and the global economy. But disruption is also happening ...
