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Join GRI and Promontory Financial Group as we discuss how organizations should adjust and move towards long-term planning given the phase of the pandemic environment with a focus on Cyber Security and Privacy.
GRI Member Only Webinar Managing Risk Through and After the Pandemic The Global Risk Institute is pleased to announce a series of webinars examining the post COVID-19 landscape & the critical role financial services firms will play in creating renewed prosperity. This is the fifth webinar in the series. In our fifth installment of GRI’s “Managing Risk Through and After the Pandemic” webinar series, we will explain what Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is and the principles behind it. David Bezic…
GRI Member Only Webinar The GARP Risk Institute recently conducted its second annual global, cross-sectoral survey on climate-related financial risks, looking at the practices of 70 financial firms worldwide. Through the lens of the TCFD framework - governance, strategy, risk management, metrics, scenario analysis, and disclosure the report examines how firms measure and manage the risks and opportunities associated with climate change. Join this webinar with the authors to hear first-hand about survey results. Speaker Jo Paisley Co-President, GARP Risk…
NPH Member Webinar Speakers Pierre-Carl Michaud and Pierre-Yves Yanni from HEC Montreal will present the innovative tool built by HEC Montréal's Retirement and Savings Institute with the support of the Global Risk Institute, National Pension Hub. The tool accounts in a detailed manner for all major features of the tax and transfer system, and includes a stochastic component that allows to generate ranges of possible outcomes given possible future values of several key variables (e.g. household's wages, interest rates, investment…
NPH Member Webinar How successful has the Canadian model been over the past two decades both in terms of asset performance and liability hedging? Which features of this model have contributed the most to its success? Is the Canadian model restricted to a few flagship funds or has it spread across the country? Can other institutional funds borrow features from this model even if they are not in a position to adopt it entirely? Sebastien Betermier will address these questions…
Large pension funds are increasingly looking to invest in infrastructure. While there is a large literature capturing the linkage between demographic change and the returns on equities, bonds, and housing, there is very little academic work examining infrastructure as an asset class.
GRI Member Only Webinar Achieving a green and resilient recovery was a main pillar of the Speech from the Throne on September 23, 2020. Through a series of grants, loans, investments, fiscal measures and other incentives, the government aims to create middle class jobs in significant part by kick-starting the green economy in Canada. Key commitments included: Legislating Canada's goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 Making Canada the most competitive jurisdiction for clean technology Retrofitting homes and buildings to…
NPH Member Webinar Professor Minjoon Lee will discuss his paper on the implications of forced retirement risk on the optimal portfolio choice around retirement. His paper finds that older workers in Canada and the U.S. face a significant risk of being forced to retire before their planned retirement ages. His paper demonstrates that, under forced retirement risk, the optimal portfolio adjustment is to increase the share of risky assets as one gets older and enters retirement, opposite to what is…
Mary Hardy will discuss a form of Target Benefit Plan (TBP) that allows for structured, transparent inter-generational risk sharing (IRS). During the webinar they will compare the IRS plan design with the traditional DB design. They will discuss very broad areas of comparison: affordability (average cost), sustainability (volatility of costs), efficiency, adequacy of benefits, and fairness.
GRI is hosting OSFI's Superintendent, Jeremy Rudin, as he provides his views on what a changing climate means for the stability of Canada's financial sector, and how climate-related risks might affect banks, insurance companies, and private pension plans. He will also provide an update on next steps for the prudential regulator, including a forthcoming discussion paper on climate risk due in early 2021, and the recently announced pilot project with the Bank of Canada aimed at using climate change scenarios to better understand the risks…
