For employers that are trying to help their employees prepare for retirement, the challenge has always been finding ways to craft a program that is…
Canada’s pension system rounds out the top 10 of the most stable systems in the world, according to research by Allianz Global Investors.
Retirement planning will remain a major issue for workers of Quebec-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that don’t offer pension plans. According to the latest…
The bulk of Canadian employers believe that offering benefits increases employees’ productivity and gives them a hiring advantage—but many employers aren’t implementing the necessary programs…
Merger and acquisition activity edged higher in Canada in the third quarter, thanks to a wave of deals by pension funds and banks, says a…
Teachers’ Private Capital, a unit of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’) has made a $125 million equity commitment to NXT Capital, LLC, a privately…
Many public and private employer pension funds have under-reserved for longevity risk, a new report from Swiss Re reveals. The report, Longevity risk and protection…
The market volatility that swept through global equity markets in the third quarter had a severe impact on pension plans, according to RBC Dexia Investor…
When it comes to government benefits, chances are many of your employees don’t know what’s available or what they’re entitled to. Is it your job…
The capital market volatility of the past few months has been unsettling for pension plan sponsors and participants alike. Even before Standard & Poor’s downgrading…
The U.S.’s state and local public employee retirement systems fell $726.1 billion, or 22.7% in 2009, from $3.2 trillion in 2008 to $2.5 trillion in…
OMERS Ventures and Charles River Ventures have invested a combined $5 million in Wave Accounting Inc., an online accounting application developer, as part of Wave’s…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Oxford Properties, the real estate arm of OMERS, are teaming up in a fifty-fifty joint venture to…
There is an estimated $300 million per year available for GST/HST pension entity rebates—an average of approximately $25,000 per eligible plan—but much of that money…
Canada has held on to its fifth place ranking in a global comparison of pension systems, but significant reform is still needed. According to the…
Transparency and good governance influence how Canadian pension plan sponsors manage their plans. While many continue to choose service providers via transparent internal processes, plan…
Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter says the province has no plans to review public sector pension plans. Dexter says his government will look at what…
Amid concerns of a global economic slowdown, Canadian pension plans experienced significant losses on both sides of the balance sheet in the third quarter of…
The assets for the U.S.’s 100 largest public sector retirement plans rose 1.3% to US$2.8 trillion in the second quarter of 2011, according to the…
Air Canada and the union representing its flight attendants recently agreed to a new hybrid pension plan for new hires. It consists of a slimmed…
I was asked recently to speak at the IFEB Conference on the topic “The Collision of Pension Reform and Poor Investment Returns.” I didn’t choose…
Canadian employees are too in debt to think about retirement planning. That’s the implication from a recent report by Morneau Shepell, which shows more workers…
The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan fell 5.6 percentage points in August, to 78%, as pension plans were affected by both…
American investment manager Vanguard has announced it will offer a bundled 401(k) plan service for small companies. The service is designed for 401(k) and profit-sharing…
Is bigger better? That’s the question posed by Alexander Dyck and Lukasz Pomorski, professors of finance at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto,…