May 6, 2024
Globe & Mail- Assuring The Sustainability Of The Canada Pension Plan: A New Consensus Is Required
Read the Globe&Mail Opinion Article Authored by Keith Ambachtsheer, Malcolm Hamilton, and Ed Waitzer... Read More
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March 8, 2024
Globe & Mail: The Business Of Pension Funds Is To Serve Beneficiaries- Not To Boost The Economy
Read the Globe&Mail Opinion Article Authored by Keith Ambachtsheer and Sebastien Betermier... Read More
October 26, 2023
Globe & Mail: What to Make of Alberta’s Unrealistic CPP Withdrawal Demand of Half the Assets
Globe & Mail Op-Ed on Alberta's 53% of CPP Assets Claim Authored by Keith Ambachtsheer and Ed Waitzer ... Read More
February 7, 2023
"Your Hundred Year Life" Canadian Premiere
KPA Advisory participated in a screening of a unique new film that looks at the social, health and economic consequences of aging.... Read More
February 2, 2022
Institutional Investor Article: What Does Good Governance Look Like?
In this article, author Christopher Schelling asserts that good governance is often the missing ingredient preventing asset management from being a value-adding proposition. He poses the question: what does ‘good governance’ look like in asset management, and where does it come from? In his answer, he cites the work of “the definitive expert in the field…..Keith Ambachtsheer….who has spent over 30 years researching, evaluating, and consulting on the governance of investing institutions”. ... Read More
April 1, 2021
Journal of Portfolio Management publishes 'The Canadian Pension Model: Past, Present and Future'
In this article, Keith revisits the origins of the Model back in the 1980s, its evolution over the course of the last 30 years, and why it should be the basis for the establishment of effective pension organizations around the world today, and in the years ahead. ... Read More
July 6, 2020
Defending The Canadian Pension Model
In a recent column on Alberta nationalism and a possible Alberta Pension Plan, Globe&Mail columnist Andrew Coyne called the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) “an out-of-control monstrosity”. In a published Letter to the Editor, Keith shows Mr. Coyne to confuse pension design and pension management, and to be badly misinformed about the Canadian Pension Model in general, and CPPIB’s implementation of it in particular. ... Read More
April 14, 2020
A Video Discussion on Integrated Reporting for Asset Owners
A Video Discussion on Integrated Reporting for Asset Owners By Keith Ambachtsheer... Read More
February 11, 2020
Improving Canada's Retirement Income System
A Discussion Paper on Setting Priorities... Read More
January 8, 2020
The Alberta Pension Plan Proposal
What's In It For The People Of Alberta... Read More
May 13, 2019
Fostering an Important Discussion on Integrated Reporting
A Survey for Asset Owners... Read More
April 30, 2019
Outliving Money in Retirement: A Solution for Canadians
MORE COVERAGE about important changes to benefit Canadians.... Read More
April 17, 2019
National Institute on Ageing Appoints Ambachtsheer Senior Fellow in Retirement Income Security
This announcement was just made by Ryerson University’s National Institute on Ageing, which is dedicated to finding “policy solutions at the intersections of healthcare, financial security, and social well-being”. We thought you would like to see it.... Read More
September 27, 2018
UN Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge
95 Financial Institutions from 16 countries sign United Nations Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge... Read More
November 14, 2017
Consensus on New Dutch Pension System Urgently Needed
In his Open Letter to Dutch Social Affairs Minister Koolmees, Keith Ambachtsheer suggests that successful reform of the Netherlands’ pension system will require strong political leadership and a strong dose of national solidarity. ... Read More
September 24, 2017
Canada's Trailblazing Pension Reforms Pay Dividends
The Financial Times reports that Maple Revolutionaries push for depoliticised governance, good pay and clear mandates. ... Read More
August 8, 2017
The Value of the Canadian Model
Alot has been written about the superiority of the “Canadian model” for managing pensions, but can a value be assigned to this organisational design structure? ... Read More
August 4, 2017
Does the Canadian Model Produce Alpha?
A recent article in Investments & Pensions Europe discusses how investment strategies made popular by Canadian pension funds can add as much as 60 basis points a year above a passive benchmark.... Read More
May 10, 2017
Ambachtsheer Receives Investment Industry Award
The Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) presented Keith Ambachtsheer with the 2017 Matthew R. McArthur Industry Pioneer Award.... Read More
March 16, 2017
Time For Innovation In Federal Government-Sponsored Workplace Pension Plans
"Innovation is about making things better in ways that benefit everyone”... Read More
January 4, 2017
How Canada Could Actually Become A World Leader In Pension Innovation
A new look at Target Benefit Plans... Read More
August 30, 2016
Financial Times: Pension Solution Lies In Long-Term Thinking
"Long-Term Thinking Will Lead The Way To Improved Returns" - Financial Times, August 30, 2016... Read More
August 19, 2016
Our Investment Advisers' Moral Compasses Are Still Being Aligned
An Ambachtsheer/Waitzer Globe and Mail article comments on the need for regulators to step up and address investment adviser conflicts of interest and competency problems. ... Read More
July 5, 2016
Pension Fund Governance: The Pension Pay Challenge
IPE Magazine - two articles about important pension topics.... Read More
May 31, 2016
War of Words Over CPPIB's Active Strategy
Chief Investment Officer online publication features Keith's Open Letter to Canada's National Post Columnist Andrew Coyne, who criticized the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in a recent column.... Read More
April 28, 2016
ORPP Should Compete With Private Sector
This Globe and Mail article reports on the Ambachtsheer/Waitzer proposal asserting that the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) initiative could be the catalyst to raise effective workplace pension coverage in Canada. They argue this is more likely to happen if Canadian financial institutions were to compete with alternative offerings deemed "comparable" to the ORPP.... Read More
April 5, 2016
Keith Interviewed on CBC's The Exchange.
See Keith's interview on the CBC about pension reform and his new book The Future of Pension Management.... Read More
March 25, 2016
Recent Fraser Institute Study on Pension Costs is Faulty
A report using the databases of CEM Benchmarking Inc. refutes conclusions reached in Fraser Institute study "Comparing the Costs of the Canada Pension Plan with Public Pensions Plans in Ontario". ... Read More
March 7, 2016
New Book Release
Keith's 4th book, The Future of Pension Management, offers a progress report from the field, referencing case studies from around the world.... Read More
December 3, 2015
These Canadians Own Your Town
An Ontario pension plan has earned huge returns with big investments in Main Street, USA. Read Keith's opinion on the Canadian Pension Model in Fortune Magazine.... Read More
September 15, 2015
Ontario's Planned Pension Plan is Not a 'Job Killing' Tax
Keith Ambachtsheer is one of the best-known pension consultants in the country. Recently, his paper about the ORPP was featured in The Financial Post.... Read More
May 27, 2015
Interview with a Pension Expert on the Federal CPP Consultations
What's behind the finance minister's notion that Canadians might make 'voluntary' contributions to the CPP? Pension expert Keith Ambachtsheer explains.... Read More
March 9, 2015
Four Ways to Make the ORPP Work
The current version of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) is problematical in its benefit design and how it is targeted, Keith Ambachtsheer writes in a KPA Advisory Services paper.... Read More
October 14, 2014
No Smoke, No Mirrors: The Dutch Pension Plan
View the New York Times' article to read Keith's thoughts on pensions in the Netherlands and how they could provide an example for America's troubled cities or states.... Read More
September 30, 2014
Canada offers lessons for CalPERS, Other US Funds, Pensions & Investments
Keith wrote the article for Pension & Investments that discusses the CalPERS' recent decision to exit the hedge fund space and how the OTPP manages their pensions.... Read More
March 5, 2012
Maple Revolutionaries: Canada's Public Pension Funds are Changing the Deal-Making Landscape
Keith is featured in the Economist's article about how Canadian pension-fund groups are running their portfolios internally and investing directly.... Read More
February 1, 2012
How Much Should Pension Funds Pay Their Own People?
Canadian Investment Review founder, Keith Ambachtsheer, is asking one question that is on the pension industry's mind right now: how much should pension staff get paid? Compensation is a key question today as pension funds seek to attract the best and brightest investment talent in a highly competitive salary environment. ... Read More
June 9, 2011
Keith Ambachtsheer Celebrated at Toronto Reception
"The Toronto CFA Society is pleased to join CFA Institute in their celebration of Keith's achievements and dedication to the industry..." said Peter S. Jarvis, CFA, executive director, Toronto CFA Society.... Read More
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