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Two Â鶹AV Desautels graduates named to 2024 MBAs to Watch by Poets & Quants

Published: 3 September 2024

Poets & Quants has named its MBAs to Watch list for 2024, and two Desautels graduates have made the cut! The magazine and website asks business schools to nominate some of their top students...

Canadian pension funds are already overweight on Canadian equities

Published: 15 October 2024

Canada’s eight largest pension funds are big players in the world of institutional investing with more than $1 trillion under management collectively. Pressure is being applied for the funds to...

Opening infrastructure could encourage Canada’s pension funds to invest more domestically

Published: 15 July 2024

The Government of Canada is exploring ways to increase investments in the country’s pension fund equities, but doing so sacrifices returns, according to The Economist. Over the past decade,...

Changes in pension funds portfolio management produce different demands for analysts and managers

Published: 15 October 2024

Historically, pension funds managed their portfolios using a strategic asset allocation approach. Fundamentally, this meant buying a mix of asset classes with the highest probability of achieving...

Mono-SOS app is helping prevent howler monkey executions in Costa Rica

Published: 28 October 2024

When howler monkeys swing from branch to branch in the canopy of Costa Rica’s forests, they sometimes encounter a deadly hazard: power lines. An app developed by Â鶹AV and Associate Professor Juan...

Shoeb Hosain, Faculty Lecturer, and the MMA team have launched an initiative to build a dynamic data analytics community

Published: 9 July 2024

Shoeb Hosain, the Program Director of the Masters of Management in Analytics(MMA) at Â鶹AV Desautels, and the MMA team have launched an initiative to build a dynamic data analytics community. Over...

A four-day work week can improve employee well-being while sustaining productivity

Published: 7 August 2024

The length of a standard work week has been steadily declining for well over a century. In the 19th century, some factory workers in Canada were expected to work 72 hours each week. It wasn’t until...

BCom alum trades in a career in marketing to become a firefighter

Published: 17 September 2024

Lesly Yao (BCom’18) isn’t your stereotypical small-town Quebec firefighter. Born in Tahiti, the Bachelor of Commerce grad was growing disillusioned with her work at a marketing firm when a Canadian...

Quick-service restaurants like St-Hubert seek to deliver value to customers

Published: 22 October 2024

Good gravy! Quebec’s rotisserie chicken chain St-Hubert has frozen prices for all main courses on its menu and reduced prices on appetizers–all while maintaining portion sizes. This is part of a...

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