Leverage in Canadian Pension Funds
Roundtable Luncheon with Malcolm Hamilton, Senior Fellow, C.D. Howe Institute, and Jim Keohane, President & CEO, HOOPP
Malcolm Hamilton, Senior Fellow, C.D. Howe Institute
Mr. Hamilton was a Partner with Mercer where he was employed between 1979 and his retirement in December 2012. Before that, he was employed by the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada.
A thought leader in the pension industry for much of his career, in the early ’90s he chaired a Canadian Institute of Actuaries taskforce that wrote a seminal report titled “Troubled Tomorrows,” which described the looming demographic bulge and its impact on pensions. The report was a contributing factor to good policy decisions by the government, which saw a reduction in government debt and increased funding of the Canada Pension Plan and the Québec Pension Plan.
He specialized in the design and funding of pension plans in both the private and public sectors and has been a frequent speaker at pension conferences and the author of papers published by the Canadian Investment Review, Benefits Canada and the Canadian Tax Foundation.
Malcolm Hamilton graduated from Queens University in 1972 as the Gold Medalist in Mathematics. He attended McGill University as a National Research Council scholar, receiving his M.Sc. in 1975. He became a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 1977.
Jim Keohane, President & CEO, HOOPP
Jim Keohane joined HOOPP in 1999, bringing more than 20 years of institutional investing experience with several national firms.
As President and CEO, Jim is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the organization, as well as for developing, implementing and overseeing—in consultation with HOOPP’s Board of Trustees—performance measurement programs, long-term strategies and annual work plans to ensure the organization meets the needs of Plan beneficiaries.
After completing his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Ottawa, he obtained his MBA at Queen's University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has completed the Directors Education Program (Rotman School of Business) at the Institute of Corporate Directors. Jim is the Vice-Chairman of the investment committee of Queen’s University, he is a board member of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, and he was selected as a member of the Ontario Technical Advisory Panel on Retirement Income Security.
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