Canada’s retirement system maintained its score of a B on the 2016 Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index, indicating a sound structure, many good features and…
The Manitoba government has approved a deferral of pension payments to help the sale of the troubled Tolko Industries pulp and paper mill in The…
The baby boomers, of which I am one, are famous for having distorted just about every market they have touched. Housing was perhaps the first…
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has reached a tentative agreement with Unifor that includes increasing wages and benefits for the union’s members in line with an economic…
The majority of public education spending in Canada between 2004 and 2015 went to pensions, benefits and wages, a new report by the Fraser Institute…
The registered retirement savings plan is fast approaching its 60th birthday. There have been many changes over that period and Canadians’ contributions have ebbed and…
When considering claims that Canadians lack adequate savings for retirement, it’s crucial to ask whether “fourth-pillar” assets have been fully considered in reaching this conclusion,…
Most of the growth in the Canadian life and health insurance industry in 2015 came from the pensions and retirement market, the Canadian Life and…
Great-West Life is piloting an online financial program with about 5,000 plan members aimed at improving their financial outcomes. The program, called Wayfinder, allows plan…
Public service employers that offer job stability, workplace flexibility and technological resources are likely to attract new talent, according to a new survey by global…
A case centred on the ability to access actuarial documents filed with the Ontario pension regulator may soon be heading to the Ontario Court of…
The stop-gap deal between Canada Post Corp. and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers includes maintaining the defined benefit pension plan for all current and…
Canada’s Income Tax Act is generally not a place people turn to for easy answers, so figuring out whether benefits provided to employees are taxable…
Throughout 2012, Ted Menzies, then the federal minister of state for finance tasked with the development of pooled registered pension plans, consistently proclaimed they were…
As negotiations continue between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, the strike action that was to start from midnight on Sunday has…
Talks between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have stalled once again, hours before the union’s strike mandate expires at midnight. “If…
Was the government’s decision to restore eligibility for old-age security to age 65 the correct choice? Tabled in March, the federal budget cancelled provisions in…
Following a settlement reached by the parties, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia has dismissed the U.S. Department of Labour’s lawsuit against…
Sun Life Financial Inc. is boosting its presence in Hong Kong through the acquisition of the pension business of FWD Life Insurance Co. Ltd. “Expanding…
Robert De Niro may have changed the way Sun Life Financial Inc. looks at its intern program. “One rainy day a few months ago, I…
Do you agree with Ontario spending $70 million on the now-abandoned Ontario Retirement Pension Plan? Last week, the provincial government released the costs for the…
Employers should start reviewing their current retirement plans to prepare for the 2019 expansion of the Canada Pension Plan, according to a Willis Towers Watson…
The number of workers in Canada who were members of a registered pension plan increased to more than six million people in 2014, according to…
The Ontario government spent up to $70 million on developing the now-abandoned Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, according to new figures released by the province. The…
The federal Department of Finance has released draft legislative and regulatory proposals dealing with the goods and services tax issues that apply to pension plans. The proposals…