James E. Pesando

• Government in Canadian capital markets
• Interest rates and recovery
• Issues regarding the reform of Canada's private pensions system
• Public and private pensions in Canada
• The impact of inflation on financial markets in Canada
• The impact of the conversion loan on the term structure of interest rates
• The use of "excess" pension fund earnings to provide inflation protection for private pensions
• An economic analysis of government investment corporations, with attention to the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and the Alberta Heritage Fund
• Canadian benefit system issues
• Les régimes privés de retraite en contexte inflationniste
• Private pensions in an inflationary climate
• Testing alternative models of the determinants of nominal interest rates