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Defined Contribution Menus: Why the Asset Manager’s Name Matters

Julie Agnew, University of William & Mary

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  • Research Award 2024: Defined Contribution Menus: Why the Asset Manager’s Name Matters

    Julie Agnew, University of William & Mary

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  • Research Award 2024: Pension Liquidity Risk

    Kristy Jansen, University of Southern California

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  • Does Pension Fund Divestment Lead to Increased Pollution?

    Yasser Boualam, University of Pennsylvania

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Research Insights

Our Research Insights provide a quick summary of the latest presentations. Catch up on recent papers in just a couple of minutes.

  • Fee Variation in Private Equity
  • Scale Economies, Bargaining Power, and Investment Performance: Evidence from Pension Plans
  • Counterproductive Sustainable Investing: The Impact Elasticity of Brown and Green Firms
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Podcasts

  • The Retirement Security Bond: A Simple Innovation to Manage Accumulation and Decumulation of DC Assets that Meets Retirement Security

    Arun Muralidhar discusses his research paper “SeLFIES: A New Pension Bond and Currency for Retirement” that presents a solution to address the inadequate structure for pension provisions in most major markets.

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  • Supercharge Me

    ICPM speaks with lead policy economist Eric Lonergan, and sustainability and climate expert Corinne Sawers about their book “Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster”. In this practical guide, Lonergan and Sawers introduce a framework to incentivise the energy transition, such as using subsidies in lieu of punitive taxes.

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  • Harnessing the Disruptive Power of De-Fi

    Richard Olsen, CEO of Lykke Corporation argues that De-Fi will prompt a new round of cost reduction for pension plans by capturing improvements in transaction efficiency and back-office processing.  He further makes the case for pension plans to use De-Fi technology to leverage their liquidity advantage, adding a new source of return.  

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Global Pension Powerhouses

ICPM profiles the most powerful women in the pension industry, who handle $2.3 Trillion USD combined assets and are the driving force behind some of the most innovative changes in the pension industry. Hosted by ICPM Board Vice Chair Michelle Ostermann.

  • Anca Drexler, EVP & Head of Total Portfolio Management, OMERS

  • Kim Thomassin, Executive VP and Head of Investments, CDPQ

  • Marlene Puffer, President and CEO, CN Investment Division

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Working Group Reports

ICPM Working Groups produce reports covering key issues in the pension industry.

  • The Four Ways Through Which Pension Funds Increase the Productivity of Firms They Invest In

    R. Beetsma, S. Betermier, J. van Dam, S. E. Hougaard Jensen, F. Lanters, M. Lyon, A. Lyngsø Madsen, M. Neft, F. Pattiwael, A. Reeve, A. Roy, W. Scott, M. Simutin

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  • An Outsider’s View on the Australian Pension System

    M. Preisel, S. Banta (aided by A. Oberthur), A. de Wet, F. Larrain, A. Oerlemans, B. Morency, B. van Popta, A. Snellen, Z. Alexander (aided by E. Cooksey), D. Knox (Advisor)

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    An Outsider’s View on the Chilean Pension System

    B. van Popta, B. Morency, D. Dobson, J. van der Walt, D. Richardson, S. Banta, M. Preisel (Chair), K. Kemmerer; S. Have Balle, F. Larrain (Advisor).

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