Fourth edition of the MIF puts spotlight on life science

Published: 20 January 2025

Record number of applications submitted with final selections all clustered in medical therapies and diagnostics...

Businesses need to adapt to change to grow

Published: 10 July 2025

For Quebec, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are an engine of economic growth. Many SMEs have grown into prosperous companies, writes Bensadoun School in Retail Management student William...

Wide adoption of stablecoins could cause problems for Canadian banks

Published: 10 July 2025

For Canadian banks, stablecoins could be, well, destabilizing. These value of these cryptocurrency assets is tied to the value of a traditional currency, which makes them more practical to use than...

Nine directors at large Canadian pension funds also hold fossil fuel positions

Published: 10 July 2025

Nine of the directors who oversee Canada’s largest pension funds also hold positions at fossil fuel companies, according to a report by Pensions and Investments.

Money lessons from Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens still ring true today

Published: 7 July 2025

Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens is a riches to rags story. Its wealthy title character squanders his money on opportunistic ‘friends’ and grows jaded with the world.

Is Tim Hortons still Canadian?

Published: 13 February 2025

Tim Hortons is deeply embedded in Canadian culture, but is it still truly Canadian? According to McGill professor Karl Moore, ownership plays a key role. “If you’re owned by Americans, you’re no...

Retaliatory tariffs are economically unwise, but politically expedient

Published: 12 March 2025

With the United States both threatening and imposing tariffs, Canada has responded with counter-tariffs of its own. But could these measures do more harm than good?“Retaliatory tariffs are just a...

Buy Canadian movement shouldn’t interfere with prudent pension fund management

Published: 27 March 2025

The Trump administration’s tariffs have catalyzed a cross-country movement to buy Canadian products. But will that movement affect the how Canada’s big pension funds manage their portfolios? The...

Confused by the pace of economic change? Mathematical models are too

Published: 11 April 2025

In times of great economic uncertainty, even institutional traders can be at a loss for how to manage a portfolio. At large pension funds, portfolio managers use data-driven models to assess risk...

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