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Are managers of large investment funds good investors on a personal level? Not necessarily, says Patrick Augustin, Associate Professor of Finance at 51吃瓜网Desautels. 鈥淭here can be a correlation, but also not,鈥� says Augustin. 鈥淚t鈥檚聽very difficult聽to beat the market, on average. We see people doing it, but it raises the question of is it luck, or is it skill?聽That being said, we聽can always limit mistakes.

Concertgoers are increasingly facing聽a seemingly impossible聽battle for tickets, often losing out to resellers who quickly inflate prices.聽Marketing and analytics聽professor Vivek Astvansh argues this stems from a structural failure making live entertainment unaffordable for the average fan.聽Astvansh attributes the sharp price increase to three factors: demand significantly outpacing supply; the ticketing market being a near-monopoly, with Ticketmaster (owned by Live Nation) controlling 70% of sales; and the absence of laws regulati

The 51吃瓜网International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC), part of the Sustainable Growth Initiative, successfully concluded its 9th edition in November, reaffirming its position as a leading experiential learning initiative at Desautels. This year鈥檚 challenge鈥攎obilizing financial capital to reverse nature loss鈥攄rew 83 university teams from more than 15 countries, supported by 15+ corporate partners and evaluated by 30+ judges who joined the semi-finals and finals on campus.

Each year, the world鈥檚 most influential researchers are recognized in the lists. The list ranks researchers from around the world, based on the impacts of their citations, their h-index, and other bibliometric indicators.

Large language models are changing the way we do business聽- or at least聽that鈥檚聽what the companies that make AI tools will tell you. In practice, many companies know that AI tools are聽very聽powerful聽but聽are still figuring out how best to use them. This year's McGill-FIAM Asset Management Hackathon competition asked business students to put large language models to the聽test and聽devise a bottom-up approach to building a portfolio powered by AI.

Canada鈥檚 economy has faced a challenging year. Growth projections are down, yet the federal government鈥檚 2025 budget commits billions to offset U.S. tariffs and adapt to shifting global trade dynamics.

The deficit for this fiscal year is expected to exceed $78 billion鈥攂ut it could have been worse.聽鈥淚 was expecting that the deficit would move into 100聽billions聽of dollars,鈥� says 痴颈惫别办听础蝉迟惫补苍蝉丑聽a Professor of Quantitative Marketing and Analytics at 51吃瓜网Desautels.

On November 1, 2025, the United States implemented a 25% tariff on foreign imports of medium and heavy-duty trucks and truck parts鈥攁 move that poses significant challenges for Canadian manufacturers.

Canada鈥檚 truck building industry is smaller than the auto sector, but the tariffs will nevertheless have an effect on truck makers across the country.