MSCI Investment Risk Summit Pressure-Tested: Risk, Resilience & the Road Ahead
- Tuesday, June 23, 2026
- 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West, Toronto, ON M5X 1A9, The Gallery – Main Floor
The risks reshaping institutional portfolios today — macro volatility, private market complexity, AI disruption, and emerging threats that traditional frameworks weren't built to handle — demand sharper thinking and better tools.
The MSCI Investment Risk Summit brings together senior investment and risk leaders from asset management, asset ownership, and pension management for a half-day program of moderated discussions and peer exchange. Sessions are designed for senior investment and risk leaders navigating the same pressures, with a focus on portfolio decision-making, risk frameworks, and the evolving investment landscape.
Registration is required to attend.
Agenda
8:30 a.m. ・ Registration and breakfast
9:15 a.m. ・ Opening remarks
Francesco Faiola, Managing Director, Canada Country Head, MSCI
9:30 a.m. ・ Session 1: The Private Assets Blind Spot: What Your Risk Framework Isn't Telling You
Most institutions can tell you their equity risk, their credit risk, and their funded status. Far fewer can tell you how their private credit exposure interacts with their high yield book, what factor risks are embedded in their infrastructure allocation, or how their real estate holdings behave under a simultaneous rate and climate shock. This session examines the risk measurement gap that private assets have created in institutional portfolios — and how factor-based approaches across private credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure are finally bringing the same analytical rigor to private markets that has long existed in public ones.
Ralph Eissler, Head of Private Assets Research & Development, MSCI
10:15 a.m.・ Session 2: Stress Testing & Emerging Risk
Historical stress tests are increasingly insufficient for the risks that matter most today. Trade fragmentation, supply chain disruption, index concentration, and the emerging risks that don't fit neatly into traditional models are reshaping what it means to stress-test a portfolio seriously. This session moves the conversation from backward-looking compliance frameworks to forward-looking scenario design that genuinely challenges portfolio construction assumptions — and explores the next generation of risk thinking for a world that looks less and less like the historical data it was modeled on.
Michael Hayes, Executive Director, MSCI Research, MSCI
Xinxin Wang, Emerging Risk Investment Solutions Research, MSCI