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Video: Why global equities matter in DC plans

Canada has the fourth largest equity market in the world but accounts for just 4% of world equity markets, as measured by market capitalization within the MSCI World Index. So for Canadian investors, it makes sense to look abroad, said Catherine Jackman, vice-president with Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management. Yet investors typically allocate more to their home country equities than to their country’s share of the world equity market.

  • June 24, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 13:27

Video: Low-volatility equity strategies for DC plans

Investing in stocks has historically provided the potential growth investors need when accumulating assets as they prepare for retirement. In times of market volatility, however, an account’s drop in value can result in investors selling stocks at near-low levels and then buying them back at higher ones when markets recover.

  • June 23, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 11:22

Video: Bring financial wellness to the workplace

Canadian plan sponsors aren’t yet ready to offer financial wellness programs and don’t believe there’s a need for them. They also don’t want to be responsible for giving debt management and financial advice to their employees.

  • June 22, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 11:50

Video: Financial advice for employees?

Most plan sponsors agree on the importance of providing some form of qualified advice to plan members, which reflects a shift in risk appetite. Sponsors are realizing not providing any options for members to obtain qualified advice might actually be a bigger risk.

  • June 19, 2015 September 13, 2019
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Video: Nudge DC members in the right direction

When DC plan sponsors use behavioural economics, it can create better outcomes for DC plan members.

  • June 18, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 11:44

Massaging the data: A Canadian health benefits trend study

The benefits industry has been doing the same thing for a long time. “The question we need to ask,” said Peter Gove, Green Shield Canada innovation leader, health management, “is, ‘Does it meet the modern challenges faced within healthcare today?’”

  • June 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 14:46

2015 Calgary Benefits Summit: How to manage cardiovascular disease

Mortality from cardiovascular disease is plummeting, but heart disease is still responsible for many adverse effects on individuals and employers.

  • June 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 14:43

2015 Calgary Benefits Summit: Organizational health 2.0

When organizational health is optimized, employee health improves and people thrive—and their workplaces do, too.

  • June 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 14:42

2015 Calgary Benefits Summit: How to confront prostate cancer in the workplace

It’s critical to focus on finding prostate cancer early, in order to save lives. “Early diagnosis greatly improves survival,” said Dr. Bryan Donnelly, staff urologist with Alberta Health Services and co-founder of the Calgary Prostate Cancer Centre.

  • June 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 14:40

2015 Calgary Benefits Summit: Wellness…the new world of benefits

The benefits industry has seen dramatic change in recent years, with wellness now front and centre in people’s minds. According to a survey by Ceridian, leading organizations have stated a wellness strategy to be one of the most critical factors in their future success.

  • June 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 14:40