The freezing rain began to fall on Jan. 5, 1998. When it subsided some 80 hours later, ice accumulations of between five centimetres and 10 centimetres had built up on virtually every surface across eastern Ontario, southern Quebec and parts of the Maritimes and the eastern U.S.
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is on a mission to help its employees become stronger leaders. Benefits Canada spoke with Mary Karamanos, senior vice-president of HR at BDC, about the role of diversity in the organization's success.
At the turn of the 21st century, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) was in the midst of a shift in its corporate strategy.
Speaking at the annual Mercer Pension Outlook and Fearless Forecast on Tuesday, Malcolm Hamilton commented that the 1990s represented “the last happy time for pension plans in Canada,” because real interest rates stayed above 4% for the decade.
After Colleen Falco, director of HR services with Niagara Casinos, assumed responsibility for the company’s benefits initiatives in early 2010, she noticed significant gaps in the way employees interacted with the company’s pension plan.
Forest City Fire Protection & Security was the recipient of the Communications Award (<1,000 employees) for Benefits Canada’s 2011 Pension & Investment Awards. As a small, privately owned company operating in a construction industry dominated by large multinational organizations, Forest City Fire Protection & Security is always on the hunt for solutions to give it […]
Benefits Canada sat down with OMERS president and CEO, Michael Nobrega, for his views on pension investing and asset allocation.
In recent years, many pension plans have looked to private investments to mitigate some of the risk of public markets. For OMERS, this shift began in 2004. At the time, the fund—which has pension commitments to more than 400,000 members in Ontario—had an investment mix of 82% public market and 18% private investment holdings. But […]
Canadians are less confident in their ability to save for retirement and in the reliability of financial markets than they were a year ago, according to a new survey from BMO Financial Group.
After a quarter-century of success, the Saskatchewan Pension Plan (SPP) may help plant the seed for Canadian pension reform. Benefits Canada talked to SPP general manager Katherine Strutt about how the SPP and PRPP can coexist.