The financial implications of time lost from work due to disability can be severe. Disability insurance coverage plans protect people from possible loss of income. We have found factors that predict the duration of disability benefit claims. However, it remains to be seen whether these associations are consistent. Improved understanding of modifiable factors associated with […]

Financial fraud is a very serious problem plaguing financial institutions. Recent advances in information technology have only exacerbated this problem. Poor risk models were at the core of the 2008 financial crisis. Complex networks, structured graphs, are powerful models for representing higher-order interactions or dependencies within data sets. Graphs are relational models of covariates, where […]

The internship will be to develop a hiring framework for Liberty Mutual Canada, grounded in academic research and best practices to mitigate implicit bias.

Social impact bonds (SIB) have the potential to fund proven social innovation projects that governments have to date, for a variety of reasons, been reticent to fund. Through a SIB, private investors fund innovative social intervention work that is carried out by a non-profit. If the non-profit achieves certain social outcomes previously agreed upon by […]

Qube Investment Management Inc. (QIM) is a registered portfolio management firm (Alberta & British Columbia), offering a combination of value and ethical investment methodologies. QIM has a mission to make investments matter. One of the ways we’ve set ourselves apart in the Edmonton investment landscape is by running our own equity research program. Rather than […]

Northern Asset Management is a holistic financial advisory and investment planning practice with a specialization in working with individuals on retirement and estate planning needs. The practice works with clients across Canada, helping them to achieve their financial goals and maintain their financial health. As such we are bound by many regulatory bodies of which […]

The goal is to develop a best practice guide for Canadian credit unions, focusing on the legal duties of Canadian directors and officers in respect of managing climate change, best practices for corporate boards, reporting on the latest global research on best climate governance practices for credit unions.

The project is mainly in the domain of achieving real-time computational speed of methods to remove noise from video signals (for example, those taken by a professional cinema camera). Specifically, in this project, we propose first to improve the speed of current technology that we have developed in previous MITACS projects, in order to make […]

When a previously trained machine learning model is put into production, the production phase begins where said model makes predictions on the inputs provided to it. When the distribution of production data changes over time, we talk about data drift. Then the model is likely to become less efficient, or even obsolete. The project consists […]

Beavers are known as ecosystem engineers for their ability to modify landscapes with their dam-building activities. There are numerous ecological benefits associated with beaver dams, as they create diverse and productive wetlands that provide habitat for various plant and animal species. There is growing interest to partner with beavers to aid in the restoration of […]

First Canadian Financial Group (FCFG) provides services and products to automotive and recreational vehicle dealers across Canada. First Canadian Insurance Corporation is a life company providing creditor group products on vehicle loans. Millennium Insurance Corporation is a property and casualty company offering after-market warranties, protection products and agreements, and total loss assistance on financed vehicles. […]

A considerable percentage of BNC projects are impacted by stoppages, re-adjustments and delays. Such issues are often communicated too late to prevent significant losses or facilitate the reallocation of funding to maximize value creation for the bank and its clients. The majority of delivery metrics (risk, statuses, stakes) that help to anticipate strategic issues and […]