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Mar 5, 2026
GPFA Board Members Chris Benish (SWIB), Rob Goobie (HOOPP), Mike Johnson (CalPERS), and Jerry May (OPERS) sit down to celebrate the association's fifth anniversary and reflect on its evolution from buy side conference conversations into a volunteer led, global not for profit.
Nov 18, 2025
Chris Benish is joined by Brock Bell from the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) to discuss VRS's asset allocation and their unique approach to leveraging.
Jun 24, 2025
GPFA's Private Credit discussion group is sharing their introduction session, which featured Jason Pearlstein from HOOPP, Lisa Mantello and Elizabeth Mpermperacis from Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and Kristian Altier, from CalSTRS.
Jun 11, 2025
Ahead of the ISLA Annual Securities Finance & Collateral Management Conference, Keren Halperin, Deputy CEO and Chief of Staff at Sharegain, joins Matt Brunette, Global Head of Financing at Norges Bank Investment Management, and Brooke Gillman for a deep dive into the evolving world of retail securities lending.
Jun 4, 2025
As the ISLA Annual Securities Finance & Collateral Management Conference approaches, Mathew McDermott, Global Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, joins Matt Brunette, Global Head of Financing at Norges Bank Investment Management, and Brooke Gillman for an insightful discussion on digital assets.
Jun 6, 2024
As ISLA has partnered with GPFA to engage more beneficial owners, Matt Brunette of Norges Bank Investment Management and active GPFA member is joined by Ina Budh-Raja of Bank of New York Mellon and Chair of the ISLA Board of Directors, and Andy Dyson, CEO of ISLA, to discuss the upcoming 2024 ISLA Conference.
May 22, 2024
Chris Benish is joined by Mary Jane Schuessler, Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets and President of the CASLA board, to discuss the upcoming 2024 CASLA Conference, the history and evolution of the association, agenda items to look forward to and some advice for those visiting Toronto.
Apr 3, 2024
Matt Brunette of Norges Bank, Jerry May of OPERS and Michael Stamm of SWIB join Brooke Gillman to discuss the reasons each approach insourcing securities finance in different ways, from hybrid trading, to control over cash management, to owning risk or to managed agent models.
Feb 9, 2023
Chris Benish speaks with some of the newest GPFA members, Brian Yeazel and Kris Breitzman of Northwestern Mutual, about their approach to securities lending, repo, and cash collateral reinvestment and finds out what drove them to join GPFA.
Jan 19, 2023
Following the first GPFA podcast on indemnification, Matt Brunette from NBIM, Chris Benish from SWIB and Jerry May from OPERS continue the conversation comparing their views on how the cost of indemnification may impact the global beneficial owner community as well as the broader market.
Dec 19, 2022
Matt Brunette from Norges Bank Investment Management and Mark Faulkner from Credit Benchmark discuss how regulatory capital constraints are impacting the market and how agent banks are starting to respond with real change to the way they do business and what may happen next Read Mark Faulkner's paper here.
Oct 27, 2022
GPFA speaks with Thomas Aubrey to understand the impacts banking regulations will have on buy-side participants in the securities finance market View Thomas' paper entitled ‘EU capital rules to increase buyside trading costs' here
Oct 4, 2022
Digging into the research, HOOP and SWIB presented their separate published papers on how to construct a better beta portfolio
Sep 16, 2022
GPFA talks to Jacky Lee of HOOPP and Redouane Elkamhi of the Rotman School of Management about their research work and published paper titled “Bridging the Gap between Strategic Allocation and Investment Risk"
Sep 30, 2021
Lisa Mantello from Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP led a renowned group of global experts in ESG investing through an interactive debate on the developments affecting ESG and financing today.
Jun 29, 2021
Joris Hillmann, Michael Fitzsimmons and Shireen Silva discuss how AustralianSuper has evolved their securities lending program and what their build out plans are for the coming years as they focus on revenue, risk, collateral optimization and operational efficiencies on a global basis.
Apr 26, 2021
Jerry May from OhioPERS and Lisa Mantello from the law firm Osler break down the facts and discuss what should be considered as part of the transition.
Apr 20, 2021
Matt Brunette from NBIM joins us again to explain how risk modeling and analysis drives decision-making in their securities lending program
Apr 6, 2021
Matt Brunette walks us through the building blocks of the Norges Bank Investment Management securities lending program and how they slowly evolved by understanding risk, market demand and optimizing resources.
Feb 17, 2021
Global Peer Financing Association (GPFA) founding members Rob Goobie (HOOPP) and Dan Kiefer (CalPERS) along with GPFA sponsor Lisa Mantello (Osler, Hoskin, & Harcourt LLP) speak with moderator Charles Quintal at the CAiP Vitual Conference in December 2020 about how the association was formed and the future goals of the GPFA.
Jan 19, 2021
After a successful first 6 months of membership growth, GPFA looks to strengthen the community of beneficial owners knowing that they are Better Together with a collective voice and the ability to rely upon each other for best practices and experience.
Dec 15, 2020
Debbie Caruso from the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) chats with Lisa Mantello from Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto about how securities lending and repo documents work when dealing with various counterparts.
Dec 1, 2020
Greg Corcoran chats with his colleagues Jerry May and Michael Lotko at the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) about how they approach the investment of the cash collateral associated with their securities lending program.
Nov 19, 2020
Steve Anderson and Rob Goobie chat about how securities financing has evolved at the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, known as HOOPP, and how their sophisticated approach to managing all financing activity in-house benefits their pensioners.
Nov 11, 2020
Speaking again to Dan Kiefer and Mike Johnson from CalPeRS about the market shift in collateral flexibility.
Oct 28, 2020
Dan Kiefer from CalPERS chats with Mark Faulkner from Credit Benchmark about credit views for non-traditional counterparts and how the peer to peer portion of the securities finance market may evolve.
Oct 15, 2020
Chris Benish, Ping Wong and Michael Stamm from the State of Wisconsin Investment Board review the past, present and future of securities financing activities at SWIB and discuss how peer to peer has allowed them to further optimize their counterparties.
Sep 28, 2020
Jerry May and Greg Corcoran from Ohio Public Employees Retirement System walk through the history and approach of securities lending at OPERS and how they constantly seek to innovate and learn from their peers.
Sep 18, 2020
Dan Kiefer and Mike Johnson chat about the history and evolution of the securities lending program at CalPERS, their current strategies and how peer lending fits into their model.