Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: Ten Years after the Great Crash

Now available. In late 2008, the world’s financial system was teetering on the brink of systemic collapse. While the impacts of the global financial crisis would be felt immediately, at every level of the economy, it would also send years-long aftershocks through investment, banking and regulatory circles worldwide.  More than a decade after the worst year of the global financial...

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Statement on the Fight Against Systemic Racism and Racial Violence in the United States

Washington, D.C. — Our nation is reeling from the murder of George Floyd, yet another gut-wrenching tragedy in the overt and uninterrupted sanctioning of racism in the United States. For too long, this country has tolerated and even condoned institutionalized racism across nearly every aspect of life—from the justice system to education to the workplace. The right to peacefully assemble and...

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Canadian pensions, consultants, institutional investors sign pledge to tackle anti-Black racism

Staff | July 23, 2020 Several prominent players in Canada’s pensions and benefits industries have signed onto the BlackNorth Initiative, pledging to take specific actions within their organizations to tackle anti-Black racism. “The persistent inequities across our country underscore our urgent, national need to address and alleviate racial, ethnic and other tensions and to promote the elimination of anti-Black systemic racism wherever...

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