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OPTrust: Why liquidity is central to risk management

As SVB has just discovered - and UK pension funds were sharply reminded last year - every financial crisis is essentially a liquidity crisis. It's why Peter Lindley, president and chief executive of $25 billion OPTrust, one of Canada's largest defined benefit pension plans, puts liquidity management front and centre.

Sarah RundellApril 4, 2023

Sustainability Harvard - September 2022

Asset owners push for better data in private markets

Investors discuss the role of private assets helping drive the transition and the data gathering process in private markets

Ben HurleyOctober 4, 2022

FIS Chicago 2022

Tech wipeout brings lucrative opportunities for savvy investors

“Horrible” sentiment towards technology stocks is dragging down the value of some of the “best business models on the planet,” experts say.

Ben HurleyMay 28, 2022

Asset Allocation

Portfolios of the future focus on risk management

Being ready for anything, a focus on risk management, using more leverage and opportunities in technology are key characteristics of the portfolio of the future according to investors who spoke at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium recently.

Amanda WhiteNovember 23, 2021

FIS Digital – November 2021

Portfolios of the future: Resilience and risk management

Investors need to prioritise resilience, risk management, digitisation trends and talent to future proof their portfolios says OPTrust CIO James Davis.

Sarah RundellNovember 4, 2021

Investor Profile

OPTrust leads on AI innovation

The C$23 billion Canadian fund OPTrust is using AI to reduce risk in a strategy it hopes to roll out to the wider portfolio. Wei Xie explains the benefits and challenges of machine learning including AI's ability to identify complex dimensional relationships.

Sarah RundellJune 10, 2021

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