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League providing benefits platform trial to employers in coronavirus overload

League providing benefits platform trial to employers in coronavirus overload

League Inc. is offering a free three-month trial of its Health Benefits Experience platform in a bid to alleviate the health-care and administrative overloads that human…

  • By: Staff
  • May 5, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 15:15
Ontario Teachers’ expanding relationship with Wellington to tackle climate risk

Ontario Teachers’ expanding relationship with Wellington to tackle climate risk

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is expanding its strategic relationship with Wellington Management Co. to better integrate climate science research into its investments. Ontario Teachers’ and Wellington…

  • By: Staff
  • May 5, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 15:00

Ontario Teachers’ expanding relationship with Wellington to tackle climate risk

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is expanding its strategic relationship with Wellington Management Co. to better integrate climate science research into its investments. Wellington and…

  • By: Staff
  • May 5, 2020 December 6, 2020
  • 11:26
Majority of Canadian employers not changing benefits plan due to coronavirus: survey

Majority of Canadian employers not changing benefits plan due to coronavirus: survey

More than two-thirds (68 per cent) of Canadian employers said they don’t intend to make changes to their benefits plan during the coronavirus crisis, according to…

  • By: Staff
  • May 5, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 09:00
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Interest in DBplus and OPTrust Select remains amid coronavirus crisis

The coronavirus crisis is putting new stresses on businesses as they grapple with cash flow and business continuity, but even amid such uncertainty, some employers…

BCI, CPPIB and PSP in deal to form new internet provider

BCI, CPPIB and PSP in deal to form new internet provider

Searchlight Capital Partners, along with several Canadian pension investors, is acquiring the U.S. Northwest operations and assets of internet and telephone services provider Frontier Communications, forming…

  • By: Staff
  • May 5, 2020 November 11, 2020
  • 08:45
What are the implications for pension funds coming out of coronavirus crisis?

What are the implications for pension funds coming out of coronavirus crisis?

Last August, I wrote about whether central banks were creating a financial bubble with their coordinated easing programs intended to spur economic growth and/or lift inflation.…

  • May 5, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 08:30
Blue Cross, SSQ latest sponsors of digital mental-health program

Blue Cross, SSQ latest sponsors of digital mental-health program

Blue Cross and SSQ Life Insurance Co. Inc. are the latest insurers to join as sponsors of MindBeacon Group’s Stronger Minds, a free digital program…

  • By: Staff
  • May 4, 2020 November 11, 2020
  • 15:00
AIMCo calls reports of losses on volatility strategy ‘dramatically’ overstated

AIMCo calls reports of losses on volatility strategy ‘dramatically’ overstated

Recent reports of significant investment losses on the part of the Alberta Investment Management Corp. are overblown, according to chief executive officer Kevin Uebelein. In recent…

  • By: Staff
  • May 4, 2020 November 11, 2020
  • 09:29
Coronavirus could reduce employer health-care costs, finds analysis

Coronavirus could reduce employer health-care costs, finds analysis

The coronavirus pandemic could reduce employer health-care costs by as much as four per cent in 2020 as medical care for non-infected patients has declined,…

  • By: Staff
  • May 4, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 08:45
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Valuation uncertainty, not liquidity, driver behind real estate fund suspensions

During the global financial crisis, certain real estate funds were suspended because of liquidity constraints, but during the coronavirus downturn, it’s valuation uncertainty that’s causing…

Empire Life adds mental-health navigator, TeksMed launches mental well-being app

Empire Life adds mental-health navigator, TeksMed launches mental well-being app

The Empire Life Insurance Co. is including a mental-health navigator in all of its group benefits plans beginning May 1. Through the navigator, which is…

  • By: Staff
  • May 1, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 15:15
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Morneau names Tiff Macklem new Bank of Canada governor

Tiff Macklem, a former second-in-command at the Bank of Canada, is returning to the central bank to take over the top job at a moment…

Editorial: Celebrating winning employers shines a light in dark times

As we come to the end of another year, we continue to confront an uncertain geopolitical landscape, with wars raging on and leaders tangled in…

Head to head: What’s riskier right now: investments in private equity or public equity?

One academic argues in favour of public equity’s transparency in a volatile economy, while another looks to private equity’s future gains. Yuanshun Li, associate professor,…

How Waterloo Regional Health Network leadership unified retirement benefits under the HOOPP to ensure equity across its workforce

When Grand River Hospital and St. Mary’s General Hospital merged in April 2025, leaders weren’t just bringing together two sites and two cultures, they also…

  • By: Sonya Singh
  • December 12, 2025 December 14, 2025
  • 08:58