Archives June 2010

June 2010

Governance/legislation

With reforms in the pension industry and prescription drug and pharmacy regulations making headlines this spring, the timing couldn’t have been more perfect for the…

It has been more than 20 years since the last significant rewrite of pension legislation in Canada. Now, following a transparent process involving expert commissions,…

Since Jan. 1, 2008, the Income Tax Act (ITA) has allowed the payment of a pension to a plan member who continues to accrue pension…

Since I stepped into the editor’s role at Benefits Canada in April, I have been immersed in many compelling discussions, ranging from pension reform to…

A year ago, pension plan sponsors were reporting significant losses. In fact, total pension assets for Benefits Canada’s 2009 Top 100 Pension Funds report fell…

Defined benefit pensions

It is the nature of optimists to look on the bright side—to search for the good amidst the bad. If there’s a silver lining in…

Health benefits

Mike Sullivan – President, Cubic Health Inc. In 2003, Sullivan co-founded Cubic Health, an analytics, benefits plan intelligence and drug plan management company that assists…

Those of us working within the employee benefits field will undoubtedly remember 2010 as a year that ushered in significant drug reforms and made employee…

Health/wellness

Most organizations have come to understand the value of investing in workplace wellness. Intuitively, integrated health and productivity programs make sense. But with the continuing…