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Is it time for pension plans to do away with absolute return benchmarks in infrastructure?

mschmit — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 04:00:55 +0000

For years, institutional investors have used absolute return or cash-plus benchmarks to measure infrastructure performance, but it’s time to put these in the past and adopt market-relevant benchmarks based on fair value and representative data, according a new paper by the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute. “From the viewpoint of the state of the art in financial […]

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Rising temperatures, global trade collapse, cybercrime top list of extreme risks for investors: report

mschmit — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 05:41:29 +0000

The top three extreme risks for investors to watch are global temperature change, global trade collapse and cyber warfare, according to a new report by Willis Towers Watson’s Thinking Ahead Institute. In the report, extreme risks are considered events that are highly unlikely to occur — but could have a large impact on economic growth […]

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Plan sponsors urged to take advantage of innovative pension plan design to mitigate risks

mschmit — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 06:38:43 +0000

In the fourth industrial revolution, technology is changing at a fast pace with a rolling effect on various industries. It’s also changing how people work, spend their money and save, said Jean-Philippe Provost, senior partner and wealth business leader at Mercer Canada. At the consultancy’s annual retirement outlook event on Thursday, Provost walked through current practices in the Canadian retirement […]

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Lessons From Brexit

mschmit — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 03:11:55 +0000

Portfolio construction a good buffer for geopolitical risk.

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5 Questions for HOOPP’s Jim Keohane

mschmit — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 07:21:38 +0000

What are the big risks in the market? And how could the Dodd-Frank rollback help pension funds?

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Caisse Focuses On ‘All-terrain Portfolio’ As Return Drops to 7.6%

mschmit — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:01:09 +0000

CEO is looking for stability over results in 'such an uncertain environment'

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