Upcoming Events

Third Retirement Session on January 19, 2021

Your Investments: Factors to Consider in view of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Performance of the Canadian and Global Economies

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This third, and last, session in the Retirement Series will discuss how to preserve and grow your wealth to ensure that it is sufficient for the rest of your life.

It will address issues such as:

• Factors to consider in making pension and investment decisions during these times.
• Investments and economic uncertainty:  E.g., inflation, recession, government measures to address the mounting deficit and debt.
• Stock market performance: What are the expectations?
• Investment risk:  How to reduce it?  What are lower risk investments?  Higher risk investments?
• Bond funds: A low-risk investment-portfolio stabilizer or not?
• Annuities: A recommended strategy?
• What is considered sufficient savings, including recommended reserves in cash, to cover future living expenses given ongoing uncertainties?
• Investment strategy for the later years of your retirement. How might it differ from the earlier years?

Speakers:
Oliver Gilbert, Investment Advisor, CIBC Wood Gundy;
Alain Quennec, Financial Advisor and Portfolio Manager, RGF Integrated Wealth Management

Moderator:
Paul Marantz, UBC Emeritus College

Note: This session will not be made available for later viewing.

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Senior Scholars' Series - January 21

Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

Co-sponsors: Emeritus College and Green College

Film Group January 27, 2021

Series Eleven – Filmed Intellectuals

The films can be screened via the Kanopy streaming site of the Vancouver Public Library

Zoom discussions of each film will take place on: Jan. 27, Feb. 24 and Mar. 31 at 4pm

Hosted by John LeBlanc

Series Eleven: Films featuring intellectuals face serious difficulties in presenting such complex and unique individuals in a medium that often relies on formulaic structures within its standard two hour limit.  Film director Margarethe von Trotta, has addressed this problem by attempting to engage intimately with her subjects, requiring that she identify to some degree with them (for example, as a woman railing against male oppression) as well as trying to discover the real person through their letters, close associates and places they inhabited.  The two hour time limit also requires identifying a representative moment in the individual’s life.  These three films, all by women directors, feature, in the first two films, internationally known intellectuals and, in the third film, a fictional thinker, offering an additional difficulty of creating what a contemporary intellectual might look like.  All three films share a focus on intellectuals as figures of exile, not only mental because of their advanced ideas but also physical, suffering displacement that shows they are not merely mind but also flesh and blood.