Sounding Board: Investment risk considerations for CAP sponsors
No risk, no reward. Like many things in life, investing inertia and fear are common, but they come with a cost. In the investment world,…
- February 6, 2019 January 12, 2021
- 09:20
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How to predict benefits plan spending for January 2020
Something interesting happened this month as we examined the 2018 experience of two different plan sponsors in two separate geographies with different demographics. The only similarity between…
- January 29, 2019 September 13, 2019
- 08:30
Three tips for a healthy group retirement plan
Since plan administrators and sponsors aren’t generally pension or group retirement specialists, they depend on information from consultants and record keepers to determine the choices they’re…
- January 22, 2019 September 13, 2019
- 09:20
Evolving trends in absence and disability management
With the start of a new year, organizations have new goals and budgets to meet. Many organizations take the new year as an opportunity to…
- January 15, 2019 September 13, 2019
- 08:00
Five fitness, health and wellness trends for 2019
A new year typically brings a renewed focus on health and wellness both at the personal level, via goals or resolutions, and at the corporate…
- January 8, 2019 September 13, 2019
- 09:00
Five benefits trends and issues to watch in 2019
For most of my 25 years in the benefits industry, the pace of change has been more evolutionary than revolutionary. However, the past few years have seen…
- December 31, 2018 September 13, 2019
- 08:00
A look ahead at pension legislative changes for 2019
While 2018 ushered in a number of significant changes to Ontario’s pension legislation, including a major revamping of the funding rules for defined benefit plans,…
- December 28, 2018 September 13, 2019
- 08:30
Four investment themes for a turbulent 2019
Looking ahead to the new year, 2019 is shaping up to be another challenging one for institutional investors looking for strategies to generate sufficient returns to meet their…
- December 27, 2018 January 12, 2021
- 08:00
How to apply investment principles to your own life in 2019
When it comes to investment principles, you probably think of your job as an institutional investor or a pension plan manager. Occasionally, you may think…
- December 20, 2018 January 12, 2021
- 13:22
ESG: Valuing the intangibles
Share price dispersion remains prevalent in equity markets, but today’s active managers are having difficulty extracting alpha. They may not be looking in the right…
- By: Scot Blythe
- December 19, 2018 January 12, 2021
- 08:10
Equity market turmoil and the active investment debate
It should come as no surprise that asset owner sentiment is currently dominated by late-cycle tensions. Among pension plans and other institutional investors, this has…
- December 19, 2018 January 12, 2021
- 08:04
Artificial Intelligence: Science Fiction or Reality?
Seventeen years after Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the concept of AI has evolved from a figment of our imagination to a topic that is…
- December 18, 2018 September 13, 2019
- 09:58
Is it a good time for plan sponsors to revisit value investing?
Many institutional investors include value-oriented equity strategies in their portfolio to provide protection during declining equity markets. But not all value strategies are created equal, as…
- December 18, 2018 January 12, 2021
- 08:00