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December 2000

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Contents
Features
  • Raising the value of corporate health
    Employers must regard healthcare expenditures as investments in the business.
    By Chris Bonnett

  • Breaking down the barriers
    Incidences of non-physical disabilities such as depression are soaring. There's a major role for plan sponsors to play in preventing these illnesses.
    By Kathryn Dorrell

  • Annual Defined contribution plan report
    There's consolidation in the air as BENEFITS CANADA delivers its eighth annual defined contribution plan report.
    By Kathryn Dorrell

  • Straight talk
    Defined contribution plan members are looking for more investment options and advice.
    By Lizabeth Pirstl

  • Power to the people
    The flexibility and portability of DC plans has made them the pension program of choice in the high-tech sector.
    By Adam Neal

  • Strength in numbers
    Canadian plan mambers are becoming increasingly litigious. Can plan sponsors avoid this troubling trend?
    By Brett Ledger

  • To have and not hold
    Corporate marriages offer potentially attrative returns with low risk using merger arbitrage.
    By Robert Parnell

  • Behavioural Finance 101
    DB plan trustees and DC plan members sometimes make investment errors. They're only human after all.
    By John Gilfoyle


Departments
  • Editorial
    Have you hugged your broker today?
    By Kevin Press
  • Insights
    Educating plan sponsors about stress; benefits trends for workers in Toronto; and a Q&A with financial planner Sandra Forrester
    By Andrea Davis
  • E-poll
    How long before Nortel reaches its former high of $124.50 on the TSE?
  • Viewpoint
    The money management industry is nowhere near ready for T+1.
    By Keith Martin
  • Investment strategies
    With a rash of trading failures, institutional investors are bypassing the Toronto Stock Exchange. Will other exchanges become the preferred route to market?
    By Barbara Clapham
  • Benefits Trends
    Talk of the new privacy legislation is rippling through the benefits community. Here's what it means to you.
    By Kathryn Dorrell
  • The Law
    Disabled war pensioners have won a billion-dollar class action suit against Ottawa. The case is an important confirmation of the Crown's fiduciary duty.
    By Murray Gold
  • Industry
    Canada Life buys TD Canada Trust's group business; pensioners sue Royal Bank; and Sun Life acuires interest in seclonLogic
    By Andrea Davis
  • People
  • Pension Options
    Ottawa is finally cutting the Canada Post pension plan loose. But is a defined benefit arrangement the appropriate solution?
    By Dian Cohen
























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