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Morneau Shepell to provide well-being platform to CFL players

Morneau Shepell to provide well-being platform to CFL players

Morneau Shepell Ltd. is partnering with the Canadian Football League Players’ Association to make its LifeWorks platform available to the league’s players. LifeWorks is a total…

  • By: Staff
  • November 25, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 15:15
United Way Greater Toronto joining CAAT pension plan

United Way Greater Toronto joining CAAT pension plan

The United Way Greater Toronto is the latest organization to join the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology’s DBplus plan. Following a 90-day consent process,…

  • By: Staff
  • November 25, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 15:00
CPPIB, Ontario Teachers’ increase positions in Mexican infrastructure

CPPIB, Ontario Teachers’ increase positions in Mexican infrastructure

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan are increasing their positions in Mexican infrastructure firm Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en…

  • By: Staff
  • November 25, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 10:33
Evaluating a DC plan OCIO offering

Evaluating a DC plan OCIO offering

My last expert column piece looked at what outsourced chief investment officer, or OCIO, offerings look like for defined contribution plans. It also highlighted the…

Draft PMPRB guidelines include changes to reference countries, drug price factors

Draft PMPRB guidelines include changes to reference countries, drug price factors

The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board has published draft guidelines, including new factors for setting patented drug prices and an updated list of reference countries for Canada to compare…

  • By: Staff
  • November 25, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 09:15

Global investors cite interest rates as key portfolio risk: survey

About three-quarters (73 per cent) of global institutional investors ranked interest rates as a key portfolio risk, according to a new survey by Natixis Investment…

  • By: Staff
  • November 25, 2019 May 10, 2021
  • 09:00

Fixing the mismatch between risk management and asset allocation time horizons

Many pension plans use risk systems to test how different scenarios would affect their portfolios. Traditionally, risk models use thousands of scenarios. The likelihood that…

  • By: Yaelle Gang
  • November 25, 2019 November 11, 2020
  • 08:53

Expert roundtable: Making fixed income work harder

Download PDF(1.22 MB) In the late stages of the economic cycle, with public market volatility, trade uncertainty and persistently low interest rates, pension plan sponsors…

  • November 25, 2019 February 24, 2021
  • 07:00
Five Canadian pension funds rank in top 100 global asset managers: report

Five Canadian pension funds rank in top 100 global asset managers: report

Twelve of the 25 top global asset owners were pension funds as of year-end 2018, according a new report by Willis Towers Watson’s Thinking Ahead…

  • By: Staff
  • November 22, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 15:00
Plan sponsors, members increasingly open to medical cannabis use: survey

Plan sponsors, members increasingly open to medical cannabis use: survey

Both plan sponsors and plan members are more open to the use of medical cannabis than they were five years ago, according to a new…

  • By: Staff
  • November 22, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 09:15
Rayonier Advanced Materials pension taking on annuity buyout

Rayonier Advanced Materials pension taking on annuity buyout

Rayonier Advanced Materials is transferring a portion of its Canadian defined benefit plan obligations with a $293-million annuity buyout. Through the transaction, Sun Life will…

  • By: Staff
  • November 22, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 09:15
Morneau Shepell’s Rita Fridella to retire, Neil King to take role

Morneau Shepell’s Rita Fridella to retire, Neil King to take role

Morneau Shepell Ltd. is appointing Neil King as executive vice-president and president of LifeWorks, effective Jan. 1, 2020, as Rita Fridella retires at the end…

  • By: Staff
  • November 22, 2019 November 12, 2020
  • 09:10
What could negative yields mean for Canadian pension plans’ funding statuses?

What could negative yields mean for Canadian pension plans’ funding statuses?

Globally, negative yielding bonds are alarming investors. And while Canadian government bonds haven’t gone negative, movement in other countries is demonstrating to institutional investors that anything is…

  • By: Yaelle Gang
  • November 22, 2019 November 30, 2020
  • 09:05

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