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During the virtual 2020 Defined Benefit Investment Forum on Thursday, the Canadian Investment Review announced the winners of its inaugural Pension Leadership Awards.
The winners are:
- Investment governance award — Concordia University pension plan
- Sustainable investing award — Bâtirente
- Chief investment officer of the year — Julie Cays, the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan
- DC investment innovation award — Ontario Medical Association
- Risk management award — Trans-Canada Capital Inc. (Formerly Air Canada Pension Investments)
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During the awards, the Canadian Investment Review also recognized the money manager of the year and fastest-growing money manager awards, as compiled by the Canadian Institutional Investment Network and featured in Benefits Canada‘s 2020 Top 40 Money Managers Report.
- Money manager of the year — TD Asset Management Inc.
- Fastest growing money manager (>$10 billion) — Baillie Gifford Overseas Ltd.
- Fastest growing money manager ($1 billion-$10 billion) — Morneau Shepell Asset & Risk Management Ltd.
- Fastest growing money manager (<$1 billion) — Canadian Urban Ltd.
The Canadian Investment Review would like to thank the awards judges:
- Chris Brown, president and chief executive officer at the LAPP Corp.;
- Guy Burry, chair of the pension investment committee at York University;
- James Davis, chief investment officer of the OPSEU Pension Trust;
- Michael Dodd, director of pensions treasury and shareholder services at the Co-operators Group Ltd.;
- Theva Naidoo, director of the pension fund at Hydro One Ltd.; and
- Pamela Steer, chief financial and corporate strategy officer at Payments Canada.
Read full coverage of the Pension Leadership Awards here.