Conference coverage: What about Bob?
Concerned stakeholders explore how employers can make the experience easier for cancer patients
- May 1, 2014 September 13, 2019
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Concerned stakeholders explore how employers can make the experience easier for cancer patients
About two out of every five Canadians are likely to develop cancer in their lifetime and employers can be more supportive of their workers to help them cope with the disease.
Employers realize that health begins with heading off illness First, the good news: thanks to medical progress, many diseases once viewed as death sentences are more survivable than ever, and early detection is making it possible to avert many illnesses before they become serious. Second, the not-so-good news: with the reduction in acute cases, chronic […]
Prevention has joined diagnosis as a top concern when it comes to keeping employees healthy in the workplace. On May 22, attendees gathered to gain inspiration from speakers at Benefits Canada’s ROI of One Life Forum on how to implement everything from cancer screening to diabetes education to exercise programs.
Anne Marie Cerato both belies and represents the image of the modern cancer patient. The vibrant thirtysomething with the energetic voice is not the first person you would identify as being in a clinical trial for Stage 3 lung cancer. But her presence as a speaker at Benefits Canada’s Cancer Care Summit in March is a potent reminder that chronic disease has mostly outgrown the tired old image of previous years.
Although the Benefits Canada Employers Cancer Care Summit, held last week in Toronto, was about disease, the focus was on people.
While sessions on emerging markets and small cap investments reminded attendees at the Benefits Canada’s 2012 Defined Benefit Summit to look at familiar investment classes with fresh eyes, another presentation Ryan Taliaferro, senior vice-president and portfolio manager/researcher with Acadian Asset Management LLC, tackled the issue of psychological habits even more directly.
If words like volatility, uncertainty and fear spring to mind when you think of emerging markets, the speakers at Benefits Canada’s 2012 Defined Benefit Summit suggested a substitute: opportunity.
For plan sponsors looking to diversify, small cap companies are an option.
At Benefits Canada's fourth annual Defined Benefit Summit in Toronto last week, the theme Keeping DB Alive was taken to heart as speakers not only probed the reasons behind the struggles of DB plans but also discussed strengths and survival strategies, including de-risking and exploring small cap and emerging markets.