Canada Institutional Forum Toronto

The 5th Annual Canada Institutional Forum is an educational initiative designed through close coordination with the region’s leading institutional investors to build peer communities that merge global best practices with local expertise. The forum is designed to bring together fund leadership teams, investment officers, board members, trustees, and their consultants representing Canada's institutional investment community. The forum's agenda was developed through extensive local travel and .. continue reading feedback from the institutional investor community representing institutional asset owners across public and corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, insurance portfolios, healthcare plans, and investment consultants. While U.S. equities have produced strong returns in recent years, market leadership has historically cycled, strengthening the alpha and diversification potential from investing in an array of international businesses. This panel will discuss how the recent under-performance of multi-factor strategies is not necessarily related to factors but is instead linked to non-explicit risks embedded in multi-factor indices or funds.