Inspiration: Paula Allen
Bird flu was headline news in 2009. That year tested Paula Allen’s resolve in a way that would shape her approach to workplace mental health and disability management.
- October 1, 2013 September 13, 2019
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Bird flu was headline news in 2009. That year tested Paula Allen’s resolve in a way that would shape her approach to workplace mental health and disability management.
Pond produces a peak performance for the pension industry At the surface, it appears as though Robin Pond took the well-worn cliché “write what you know” to heart when he scripted The Retirement Plan. The satirical play, which played at the Toronto Fringe Festival this summer, is about a couple who signs up for a […]
One advantage of being an editor is that I meet people from different walks of life and, by extension, have licence to freely ask questions (sanctioned only by professional etiquette). Over the past year, it’s been a privilege to interact with some of the finest minds in the industry.
This year’s Canadian Institute of Health Information study, Lifetime Distributional Effects of Publicly Financed Health Care in Canada, estimates the effects of publicly funded healthcare and the taxes used to finance it by income groups.
At the centre of every pension plan is a team of professionals—actuaries, administrators, governance officers, consultants, trustee managers—who are commissioned to weave a tapestry that will lead to a picture of retirement health. Not everyone agrees on plan or principle, but there’s one thing they have in common: they look to the industry for object […]
By the end of 2013, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth, and by 2017, there will be nearly 1.4 mobile devices per capita. If these stats—taken from Cisco’s data traffic projections—are uninspiring, consider the bottom line: if you don’t get in the game, someone else will.
How group insurers prefer to communicate with employees, clients and plan members
Recall back in April when a Twitter hoax claimed President Obama was injured in an explosion at the White House. The report caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to plummet 150 points within about three minutes, erasing $136 billion in market value. Although the tweet that read “Breaking: Two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured” appeared to be a news alert from the Associated Press, it was immediately confirmed to be fake.
Hindsight will confirm that persistent political and economic ambiguity stemming from the financial crisis in 2008 has continued to be a bane for institutional investors. Yet, compared to Europe and the United States, Canada has performed relatively well, and it’s in no small part thanks to a unique set of variables: low interest rates combined with good regulation and available credit. (Throw in a bit of luck.)
Some countries do a world-class job of making it to the top quartile of performance by ensuring their aging populations have financial security at retirement. Others, not so much.