“I always thought our culture was something that evolved from me and my core values as an organization,” says Aldo Cundari, chairman, CEO of Cundari, an advertising agency with offices in Toronto and Montreal.
For baby boomers on the cusp of retirement, they could find that meetings and marketing plans will need to be just as much part of their daily lives post-retirement as pre-retirement.
Brandes Investment Partners & Co. (Brandes Canada) has announced 10 winners for its scholarship program launched earlier this year. The program, which was specifically developed to address recommendations from the federal Task Force on Financial Literacy, received more than 3,500 applicants from May 23 to July 20. It was open to Canadians between the ages […]
Benefits plans matter to employees. Research from the 2011 sanofi-aventis Healthcare Survey shows that 59% of employees would choose to keep their benefits plan if given the option to trade it for $10,000 in cash. But as much as employers want to provide these benefits to their workforce, they are struggling to manage plan costs. […]
Eric Lindenbaum, senior portfolio manager with Invesco, encourages people to look at emerging markets. He feels the opportunities and growth potential in this asset class are greater for investors. Watch this video to learn more. Additionally, he says that emerging markets have gone from a niche asset class to one that is more strategic and […]
Watch this video At Unisource Canada, the DC plan is made up of two parts: a basic component and an optional component, and it’s a hit with employees. Larry Ketchabaw, manager, pension and benefits, with Unisource Canada, says the company measures the success of the plan by participation rates. With 90% of employees contributing to […]
Ensuring employees with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have access to medical care as well as other services—such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy and drug coverage—is very important in helping them to be productive and active in the workplace. Dr. Diane Lacaille, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, describes what employers can do to help […]
Watch this video John Power, senior vice-president, U.S. equities, with Pyramis Global Advisors, says that investors need to seriously rethink traditional asset allocations. For starters, fixed income investing is due for a significant change, he says. “I don’t see how fixed income, losing money, has a place of 40% in a portfolio anymore.” Watch this […]
Despite the complexity of designing, communicating and administering a DC plan, employers do their best to get plan members engaged and on track with retirement savings. However, for each employer that does this, this poses some unique challenges. With this in mind, Benefits Canada sat down with four plan sponsors and asked each one to […]
Today’s workplace is changing and more focus is being put on the psychological health of employees. “We use to primarily use our backs for work and the interest in the healthcare field and employee rights was about injury. Now that we are more of a knowledge based society, the injuries are physiological more often–or as […]