Bob the builder
Bob Bertram, executive vice-president, investments, with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and BENEFITS CANADA’s Top 40 Money Managers Lifetime Achievement Award winner had just come…
Bob Bertram, executive vice-president, investments, with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and BENEFITS CANADA’s Top 40 Money Managers Lifetime Achievement Award winner had just come…
Pension funds have had a rocky relationship with real estate. In the early 1990s, Canadian pension plans had, on average, almost 7% of their assets…
BC: What are your thoughts on the recent National Pharmaceuticals Strategy report? CM: The strategy they announced was fairly general. We look at it as…
FOR SEVERAL YEARS, COMMENTATORS HAVE PREDICTED that companies will need to deal with the escalating cost of the health benefits they provide to their retirees.…
IT’S A DILEMMA. CANADIANS ARE APPROACHING RETIREMENT in record numbers. Post-retirement benefits are traditionally unfunded and often loosely defined. How does an employer balance its…
There are no lack of anecdotes from people who have had close encounters with someone who has crossed the line and defrauded an insurance organization.…
The world of business contains a few simple axioms and one of them is this: if you want to attract and retain top-quality talent, you…
When some pension plan trustees hear the word leverage, they often look a bit queasy. Perhaps they imagine the volatility of their portfolio magnified many…
The most significant drivers of change for pension asset management Robert Bertram: I think the most important one domestically will be the demographics. We’re now…
Want to catch a glimpse of the future? Take a look at some of the tires plan sponsors are currently kicking. From liability-driven investing to…
When the federal government delivered temporary solvency relief to federally regulated pensions in its spring budget, many expressed hope that it signalled a willingness among…
Among the major decisions we must make in our lifetimes, those concerning retirement are among the most difficult. Retirement represents one of the most significant…
© Copyright 2006 Rogers Publishing Ltd. The following article first appeared in the November 2006 edition of BENEFITS CANADA magazine. Pension planning: Tip of the iceberg…
The National Pharmaceuticals Strategy(NPS)progress report, released to the public in September, said the price of a national catastrophic drug coverage(CDC)program could cost private payers $3.4…
Pension funds have had a rocky relationship with real estate. In the early 1990s, Canadian pension plans had, on average, almost 7% of their assets…
