Eugene Ellmen: The Evolution of Public Policy: The Sustainable And Socially Responsible Investment Of Canada's Pensions
Ellmen, Executive Director, Social Investment Organization, reviews international developments in pension policy, showing how policy is supporting greater pension transparency, accelerating the drive toward the socially responsible investment of pension assets. 16/5/2006
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Jane Ambachtsheer: Responsible Investment: What is it All About?
Ambachtsheer, Global Head of Responsible Investment at Mercer Investment Consulting, discusses the evolution of RI and integration of environmental, social, and corporate governance issues within investment decision making. 18/4/2006
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RIWG: Responsible Investment at UofT: An Education Unto Itself
The Responsible Investment Working Group looks at ethical investing advocacy at UofT, obstacles to advocacy for responsible investing, and lessons learned. Remarks by Sheila Brown, UofT Chief Financial Officer. 21/3/2006
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Allan Goss: Can Professors Afford to Retire: A Survey of Canadian University Pension Plans
Goss, PhD candidate in finance at the Schulich School of Business, explores the marked differences between faculty pension plans using data from a study of 52 Canadian universities. 21/2/2006
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Michel Lizée & Denise Gagnon: Education on Pensions Issues in Quebec's Labour Movement
Michel Lizée, Services aux collectivités, Université du Québec à Montréal & Denise Gagnon, Education Department of the Quebec Federation of Labour discuss how the FTQ hopes to address the pension challenge in Quebec.30/1/2006
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Robert Monks: Rating Corporate Governance
Monks, the intellectual grandfather of corporate governance, discusses the growth of the market for corporate governance ratings, why these ratings are increasingly in demand, and the opportunities they present for future investors. 15/11/2005
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Jo-Ann Hannah: Current Pension Issues from a Union Perspective
Hannah, National Representative with the Canadian Auto Workers Research Department, looks at the threats to the pension system and gives a union response. 21/6/2005
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Gil Yaron: Fiduciary Responsibility and Economically Targeted Investment
Gil Yaron, Director of Research, Law and Policy for the Shareholder Association for Research and Education, discusses existing law on pension investment and its implications for union pension fund trustee's fiduciary responsibility in terms of economically targeted investment. 18/5/2005
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Jury Kopach: Pension Plans and Employee Education
Kopach, President of NBRS Ltd., a company that provides retirement planning solutions for companies and their employees, describes issues and challenges of employee pension education. 19/4/2005
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Bob Boeckner: An Actuary's Perspective on Pensions Deficits:
Everything You Wanted to Know and Were Afraid to Ask
Boeckner, a senior consultant and Principal in the Toronto office of Mercer Human Resource Consulting, speaks in everyday language on pension issues from an actuary's perspective. 10/03/2005
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Michael C. Jantzi: Evaluating Non-financial Risks in a Shifting Pension Landscape
Jantzi, President of Jantzi Research Associates and a leading spokesperson on social investment and corporate social responsibility issues, discusses the question: Is socially responsible investing (SRI) appropriate/ achievable for pension plans? 15/2/2005
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Glorianne Stromberg: Perspectives on Governance, Risk Management and the Pension Promise
Stromberg, a mutual fund expert, former Commissioner of the Ontario Securities Commission, and a frequent speaker and commentator on matters relating to the investment fund industry, speaks on the serious shortcomings of gate-keeping mechanisms to protect investors and to ensure a fair and efficient marketplace. 18/1/2005
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Our Pensions, Our Future: A Forum on Pensions & Workers’ Capital in Canada
Speakers included Rolf Gerstenberger, President, Local 1005 United Steelworkers of America; Monica Townson, Pensions Expert; Bob Baldwin, Director, Social & Economic Policy, Candian Labour Congress; and Murray Gold, Pension Lawyer, Koskie Minsky LLP. 28/4/2004
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