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Sam Goodman
Sounding board: Institutional investors making Canada’s approach to China unsustainable
With the repatriation of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor following their three-year incarceration in China, relations between Ottawa and Beijing are to be reset.…
- October 12, 2021 October 25, 2021
- 09:00 2021-10-12
ESG investing and human rights: “Ignorance is no longer an excuse”
It's a welcome development that so many pension fund managers are increasingly preoccupied with the ethical implications of their investments and incorporating data to ensure…
- July 6, 2021 July 21, 2021
- 09:00

Robert Sharps
Expert panel: How is cryptocurrency impacting institutional investors’ portfolios?
Whether institutional investors welcome it — or even realize it — cryptocurrency is having an impact on their portfolios. The immense size of the crypto…
- July 22, 2021 July 22, 2021
- 02:30 2021-07-22

Catherine Ann Marshall
Expert panel: Understanding the changing legal climates for institutional investors
In case you missed it, a recent legal opinion by pension lawyer Randy Bauslaugh suggested plan sponsors might be personally liable for failing to consider…
- July 20, 2021 July 23, 2021
- 12:00 2021-07-20
RESTing the case on climate change
A lawsuit settlement on the other side of the world is reverberating around the globe as it increases the environmental, social and governance standards for…
- December 2, 2020 July 23, 2021
- 08:24
The slow burn of climate change in heat of pandemic
Meeting a deadline in the midst of a pandemic seems like a good test of corporate resiliency and, according to a recent survey of Canadian…
- June 24, 2020 July 23, 2021
- 07:41
PRI reporting deadline: A race to the finish line in 2020
There is nothing like a deadline to focus the mind. Asset owners and managers who are signatories of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investments…
- February 27, 2020 July 23, 2021
- 07:54

Andrew Watts
The future of investing is multi-disciplinary
The future will increasingly favour institutional investors that can break old patterns of thought. As we move forward and industries and new technologies converge at…
- June 29, 2021 July 7, 2021
- 10:30 2021-06-29

Sadiq Alladina
Value creation may be new cap rate compression in real estate investment
As the era of cap rate compression draws to a close, how can institutional investors maintain the outsized returns they’ve enjoyed for over a decade?…
- May 27, 2021 June 1, 2021
- 10:00 2021-05-27