Know your options
Mitigating the risks of backdating and springloading. Backdating options is, at best, indicative of poor governance and, at worst, illegal. The practice could result in…
- By: Christina Medland
- March 1, 2007 September 13, 2019
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Playing by the rules
Comparing principles-based and rules-based corporate governance in Canada and the U.S. Following the collapse of Enron and other accounting fraud and corporate scandals involving firms…
- By: Erinn B. Broshko and Kai Li
- December 1, 2006 September 13, 2019
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The Law: Payback time
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION IS AN ISSUE THAT MOVES IN and out of the headlines. And, from time to time, it surfaces in the courtroom. Shareholder activists,…
- By: Hugh O’Reilly
- June 1, 2005 September 13, 2019
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Pension Planning: Assembling the ideal board
GOVERNANCE OF A PENSION FUND IS DETERMINED BY those at the top who are entrusted with its oversight, such as the board or the investment…
- By: Dave Finstad
- June 1, 2005 September 13, 2019
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A watching brief
The impact of pension fund surplus litigation has been well documented. The next big litigation catalysts involving pension plans could be plan expenses and plan…
- By: Paul Dempsey
- May 1, 2005 September 13, 2019
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Guest Speaker: A lesson from Teachers’
IN THE MID-1990S, TEACHERS’ BELIEVED THAT THE LOSS OF assets through active management posed substantial risk to the funding position of the plan. Today, we…
- By: Barbara Zvan
- March 1, 2005 September 13, 2019
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Pension Planning: A small plan’s story
For a PDF version of this article, click here. ONE OF THE UNDERLYING PREMISES OF MODERN PORTFOLIO management is that risk is as important as…
- March 1, 2005 September 13, 2019
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Investment Q&A: Practitioner, heal thyself
© Copyright 2006 Rogers Publishing Ltd. The following article first appeared in the February 2005 edition of BENEFITS CANADA magazine. Sound governance should be a…
- By: James Lewis
- February 1, 2005 September 13, 2019
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The Law: Action plan 2005
WE HAVE WEATHERED THE RECENT CRISIS IN PENSION plan funding after the collapse of equity prices in 2000. But there are challenges ahead. Plans are…
- By: Simon Archer
- February 1, 2005 September 13, 2019
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The ultimate benchmark
© Copyright 2006 Rogers Publishing Ltd. The following article first appeared in the February 2005 edition of BENEFITS CANADA magazine. Plan sponsors are asset-focused when…
- By: Arif Sayeed and Dan Markovich
- February 1, 2005 September 13, 2019
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Pension Planning: What are your beliefs?
PENSION FIDUCIARIES DON’T TALK MUCH ABOUT THEIR investment beliefs. So one is often left having to infer investment beliefs from investment actions. For example, if…
- By: Keith Ambachtsheer
- January 1, 2005 September 13, 2019
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