22 July 2015

JULY 22, 2015   This year, the GRI Annual Conference will take place on Tuesday November 10 in downtown Toronto. Our conference will focus on the theme: Everything is Connected: Risk in the Age of the Industrial Internet. The conference will examine the digital world from the perspective of financial institutions’ risk profiles and management, including… View Article

7 July 2015

JULY 7, 2015   Behavioural finance is an important field to help understand decision-making in financial markets. In this workshop, Professor Jim Engle-Warnick presented an overview of the foundations of behavioural finance, including results from recent experiments, and conducted an interactive experiment that focused on the decision-making biases which affect financial decisions. Finance and economics… View Article

17 June 2015

JUNE 17, 2015   GRI’s President and CEO, Richard Nesbitt, recently took part in a panel discussion alongside distinguished leaders at the International Economic Forum of the Americas. The panel session Fragmentation Risk in Financial Services: A Retreat from Globalization?, sponsored by GRI, brought together Carolyn Wilkins, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, and… View Article

16 June 2015

JUNE 16, 2015 A GRI-funded behavioural finance experiment was recently featured in La Presse. The game tests participants’ ability to save for retirement and is linked to research being undertaken by the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO) as part of GRI’s Behavioural Finance research stream.

13 June 2015

The GRI Managing Director Of Research, Catherine Lubochinsky, Discusses The Future Of Defined Benefit Schemes With Investment & Pensions Europe The viability of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes in both the public and private sectors has been a subject of discussion for many years in the developed world, not least because of the significant numbers… View Article

13 June 2015

To serve our members’ needs for greater insights into financial risk research, the GRI Research team is launching a new monthly member bulletin, Research Insights. Each month, members who are signed up to the GRI mailing list (link:   http://globalriskinstitute.org/newsletter/) will receive Research Insights. This bulletin will feature summaries of leading research papers including both GRI… View Article