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Accenture supporting LGBTQ2S+ employees with leadership training, mentoring

Sadie Janes — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:00:49 +0000

Accenture Canada is reinforcing its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion during Pride Month and beyond by offering leadership training and mentorship opportunities for all of its LGBTQ2S+ employees and allies. “We not only foster innovation and growth within these spaces, but ensure everyone knows this is a workplace of inclusion and equality,” says Caroline Gayle, […]

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2023 Top 100 Pension Funds Report: How to improve retirement outcomes across diverse plan member groups

Jennifer Paterson — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 12:56:55 +0000

At the beginning of April, the OPSEU Pension Trust made a change to a definition in its plan text that will have meaningful implications for plan members with disabled children who need to continue to rely on their parents into adulthood. The organization expanded the definition of a child eligible for survivor benefits to include […]

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2023 GIC coverage: The good, the bad and the ugly sides of regime shifts

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:55:28 +0000

“Let me start by pointing out the obvious: the last few years have been exhausting,” said Mina Krishnan, multi-asset portfolio manager at Schroders, during a session on regime shifts at the Canadian Investment Review’s 2023 Global Investment Conference. “We’ve had the [coronavirus] pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis and Brexit.” As a result […]

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2023 GIC coverage: Tracking headwinds and tailwinds in Canadian housing development

lbailey — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:48:28 +0000

Housing affordability will be a challenge, particularly for newcomers to Canada — pushing more of that demographic into the rental market, said Aaron Pittman, head of institutional at Equiton, during the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2023 Global Investment Conference. With 20 per cent of the Canadian workforce expected to retire over the next 10 years and a […]

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2023 Top 40 Money Managers Report: Using tools, technology to improve asset allocation, risk management

Jennifer Paterson — Fri, 12 May 2023 12:56:27 +0000

Large and small, pension plan sponsors are adopting in-house tools, partnering with technology research institutes or relying on investment managers for technological support with asset allocation, risk management and other aspects of investment management. The growing interest coincides with an increasingly complex investment, demographic and regulatory landscape. A 2020 Deloitte report on the importance of […]

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A look at China’s private pension pilot project

Jennifer Paterson — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:54:14 +0000

Traditionally, Chinese workers have relied on two pillars of income in retirement — the basic state pension and employer-sponsored plans open to employees in certain sectors. However, in late 2022, the Chinese government poured some concrete into the mould of a third pillar, unveiling the details of a previously announced private pension scheme. Under the […]

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2022 IIC coverage: Pension plan sponsors discuss role of communication, education in member engagement, support

lbailey — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 12:45:52 +0000

In 2021, the Saskatchewan Healthcare Employees’ Pension Plan set out to gauge just how well-versed its 60,000 members were about their defined benefit pension plan. The SHEPP launched a six-week survey focused on member demographics, their perception and understanding of the plan, expectations, communications preferences and interest in retirement topics. The survey yielded interesting results, […]

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2022 DBIF coverage: A look at the economic forecast for 2023

Sadie Janes — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:00:44 +0000

BMO Financial Group expects North American economies will go through a shallow recession in 2023, according to Douglas Porter, the bank’s chief economist and managing director, during a session at the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2022 Defined Benefit Investment Forum. “I would give it a 25 per cent chance that central banks can still negotiate this without one. […]

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Lack of LGBTQ2S+ inclusivity costing employers, says expert

Sadie Janes — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:00:47 +0000

Employers that aren’t encouraging LGBTQ2S+ inclusivity stand to lose significant amounts of money due to turnover, lower employee engagement and decreased productivity, says Michael Bach, founder and chief executive officer of Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion Consulting Inc. “The employers making real progress are the ones that recognize the benefit of action and the […]

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N.S. Teachers’ Pension Plan returns 9.63%, though solvency ratio remains below 85%

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 03 May 2022 13:00:24 +0000

The Nova Scotia Teachers’ Pension Plan exceeded its return benchmark in 2021, though its solvency ratio on a growing-concern basis remains underwater, according to its annual report. The defined benefit pension plan’s assets grew by 6.1 per cent last year, reaching $5.856 billion. Net investment returns, however, grew by 9.63 per cent, slightly higher than […]

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