Private Markets, Climate Risk, and AI: Inside Canada’s Investment Model with Katie Pries

About this episode

In this episode, Paul Fahey speaks with Katie Pries about Canada's investment model, focusing on private markets, climate risk, and the role of AI in enhancing investment strategies.

Long-term investing is shifting, but what actually separates disciplined investors from the rest? How are leading institutions balancing performance, risk, and innovation while managing growing complexity? In this episode, host Paul Fahey speaks with Katie Pries, Country Executive for Northern Trust Asset Servicing in Canada, about how Canadian asset owners approach private markets, governance, and emerging technologies. They explore how the Maple Eight have shaped global investing practices, why climate risk is now embedded in decision-making, and how data challenges are evolving. Katie also shares how AI is being applied to improve efficiency without replacing human judgment, and why execution and governance are now the real differentiators. Key takeaways: Private markets treated as core portfolio building blocks tied to long-term liabilities and cash flow stability Data challenges shifting from scarcity to overload, with a focus on timely, decision-ready information Climate risk is integrated into governance frameworks and viewed as a financial and execution risk AI is improving data processing, risk monitoring, and workflow efficiency without replacing human oversight The…

People in this episode

Host: Paul Fahey

Guest: Katie Pries

Topics covered

• private markets
• climate risk
• AI in investing
• governance
• long-term investing
• data challenges

Keywords

• long-term investing
• asset owners
• investment governance
• data processing
• risk monitoring
• workflow efficiency
• financial risk
• decision-making

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Northern Trust, Maple Eight

Places: Canada

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