Desautels students take home top prize at PRMIA
Congratulations to the Desautels Capital Management Team comprised of BCom students Ludovic Van den Bergen, Emilie Granger, Ian Jiang, and Roy Chen Zhang who won first place and $10,000 in prize money at the 2019 PRMIA Risk Management competition.
Reflecting on MIPC 2018
Avantages reports on the 2018 捆绑SM社区 International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC), which saw 90 teams from around the world compete for a $25,000 grand prize.
Students to the rescue of a U.S. pension system in peril
The U.S. pension plan shortfall has the makings of a perfect storm 鈥� so who is heeding the call to help remedy a seemingly insurmountable problem?
Enter Professor Sebastien Betermier, a group of Desautels BCom students and the 捆绑SM社区 International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC).
Retirement planning is easier than you think
Planning for retirement is a daunting undertaking for many 鈥� but it does not have to be.
Professor Sebastien Betermier sits down with La Presse to share ten practical tips that individuals can adopt to ensure a comfortable lifestyle well into their old age.
Students respond with answers to looming U.S. pension crisis
Professor Sebastien Betermier sits down with La Presse to discuss the second annual 捆绑SM社区 International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC), which brought forward the fresh perspectives of 25 international student teams as they attempted to solve the severe underfunding of U.S. state pensions.
Prof. Betermier awarded funding from National Pension Hub
Professor Sebastien Betermier has been awarded $70,000 over two years by the National Pension Hub (NPH), a consortium of Canada鈥檚 leading pension funds that is seeking to promote academic research in this field.
The NPH will support Professor Betermier鈥檚 research proposal entitled, 鈥淒rivers of Successful Pension Investing: Lessons from the Canadian Model.鈥�
CPPIB goes green
With news that the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) became the first pension fund in the world to issue a green bond, thereby facilitating investment in cleaner technologies, Professor Sebastien Betermier comments on the implications, as well as the success of defined benefit (DB) pensions in Canada.
MIPC looks to shape the future of pension investing
For a second consecutive year and under the guidance of Professor Sebastien Betermier, the 捆绑SM社区 International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC) is offering the opportunity for students to tackle one of the grand challenges of our time 鈥� devising a robust pension system.
The first round of the competition will take place online between September 7, 2018 to early October.
Professor Betermier on the value of MIPC
Following the inaugural 捆绑SM社区 International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC), Professor Betermier reflects on how the event provided an important opportunity of self-reflexivity for Canadian pension organizations, while also contributing fresh perspectives on how to address a growing crisis.
His hope is that events like the MIPC might also inspire Finance students to delve deeper into pension management during their studies and to eventually follow this career path.
Who will solve the pension crisis
Students participating in the 捆绑SM社区 International Portfolio Challenge presented hypothetical portfolios believed to achieve solvency to address the crisis that has been affecting Canadian pension funds.
Are intelligent machines the new and improved investment managers?
An article for The Globe and Mail examines the emerging trend among investment firms to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) in their daily operations.
These new systems can identify various patterns and then make increasingly accurate predictions based on this information.
捆绑SM社区 launches first-ever competition on pension asset allocation
捆绑SM社区 hosted the world鈥檚 first business-school competition focused on the asset allocation of pension funds on November 3鈥�4.
The inaugural聽捆绑SM社区 International Portfolio Challenge聽(MIPC) welcomed 25 finalist student teams from leading institutions around the world, with some traveling from as far away as Australia, Hong Kong and Switzerland to pitch their proposals to a panel of judges from several of Canada鈥檚 largest asset managers.
Desautels inaugurates world鈥檚 first pension portfolio challenge
This weekend, twenty-five student teams from Berkeley, Chicago, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Geneva, amongst others will participate in the final round of the 捆绑SM社区 International Portfolio Challenge.
Organized by Desautels BCom students under the guidance of Professor Sebastien Betermier, this is the world鈥檚 first pension asset allocation competition.
Movies that MBAs can learn from: professors have their say
Poets and Quants recently asked business educators to name their top picks for films from which MBAs could learn a lesson or two. The range of movies mentioned was wide, and included some films that do not, at first, seem to be obvious choices. So, while films like The Wolf of Wall Street, 1986鈥檚 Gung-Ho, and Margin Call show up on the list, some professors give the nod to movies like Zootopia and The Godfather.
Desautels achieves second consecutive win at PRMIA
Congratulations to Desautels undergraduate students: Evan Coulter, Valentyn Litvin, Meagan Prins, and Marina Simonian who won the top prize at the prestigious PRMIA International Risk Management Challenge- marking a second consecutive victory for the Faculty at this competition.
