Manal Ali

Manal Ali

Benefits and Pensions Monitor

Manal Syeda Ali

Senior Sponsored Content Writer

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Manal's specialty topics

Institutional and pension investing Alternative investments Private credit and real estate Group benefits and disability claims

Manal Syeda Ali is a Senior Sponsored Content Writer for Key Media, with a focus on investing and portfolio management content for the Benefits and Pensions Monitor, InvestmentNews, and Wealth Professional titles. She covers institutional and pension investing, alternative investments including private credit and real estate, and group benefits topics such as disability claims and plan member support.

After a brief stint in the finance industry, Manal transitioned to financial journalism at Canadian retail investing publications Advice for Investors and Investor's Digest. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Business from the University of Waterloo.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“I look at how plan sponsors and asset managers approach risk and long-term positioning. My goal is to make that decision-making clear for benefits and pensions professionals.”

Also published by

InvestmentNews · Wealth Professional · Insurance Business · Human Resources Director

Featured content from Manal

Shrinking supply sets up Canadian real estate for long-term gains: TDAM's Croll How early support and decision quality are redefining disability claims Private credit's discipline test

Previous experience

  • Advice for Investors — Financial Journalist
  • Investor's Digest — Financial Journalist

Education

  • Bachelor's degree, Economics and Business, University of Waterloo

Read the latest stories by Manal

Shrinking supply sets up Canadian real estate for long-term gains: TDAM’s Croll

While attention stays fixed on short-term volatility, supply is drying up across every major property sector just as the demand shock from immigration cuts begins to fade

Shrinking supply sets up Canadian real estate for long-term gains: TDAM’s Croll

How early support and decision quality are redefining disability claims

How Co-operators’ Jen Robertson sees claimant engagement, decision quality, and early intervention becoming the new measures of disability claims success

How early support and decision quality are redefining disability claims

Private credit’s discipline test

Manager drift, opaque leverage, and rushed deployment are showing up across the asset class. TD Asset Management on what separates a resilient manager from a vulnerable one

Private credit’s discipline test

Income, repriced: Where advisors are looking now

As institutional capital leans into real assets, Pier 4 outlines how private real estate is increasingly being considered by some advisors as part of diversified income-oriented portfolios

Income, repriced: Where advisors are looking now

Income, repriced: Where advisors are looking now

As institutional capital leans into real assets, Pier 4 outlines how private real estate is increasingly being considered by some advisors as part of diversified income-oriented portfolios

Income, repriced: Where advisors are looking now

Buying well is just the first step in creating value

How IFM Investors approaches infrastructure through active stewardship, reinvestment and long-term capital discipline

Buying well is just the first step in creating value

Emerging markets: A framework for Canadian allocators

Ninety One explores how institutions are repositioning emerging markets amid US concentration and a more volatile global backdrop

Emerging markets: A framework for Canadian allocators

Taking airport ownership to new heights

How IFM uses long-duration airport ownership to combine core stability with value creation initiatives while seeking to strengthen long-term risk-adjusted returns for clients

Taking airport ownership to new heights

Canada’s real estate stress test: What the current cycle has revealed

After years of disruption, Canada’s real estate market is sorting itself by durability. Paul Chin explains how Centurion built insulation before the cycle turned

Canada’s real estate stress test: What the current cycle has revealed

Supporting employees through difficult workplace moments

Why readiness, open dialogue and accessible resources matter when workers face unexpected or traumatic experiences

Supporting employees through difficult workplace moments