The Canadian healthcare system and its stakeholders are facing increasingly critical challenges regarding the sustainability of the $142 billion system. There seems to be difficulty…
Canada’s East coast is known to be one of the country’s most captivating regions—with its rugged coastline, picturesque fishing villages, breathtaking bays and rich culture.…
TYPICALLY, IN NORTH AMERICA, PLAN SPONSORS GO TO market annually to select hedge fund investment managers for about 150 North American mandates ranging in size…
Plan sponsors participating in securities lending programs have often preferred to accept government debt securities as collateral for their loans, reasoning that these instruments exhibit…
It has been a record-breaking year for the capital markets in 2006. The S&P/TSX composite index and the Dow Jones both topped 12,000 for the…
Despite the huge growth in defined contribution(DC) plans in Canada and globally, there appears to have been very little focus by plan sponsors on the…
Three years ago it was about consolidation. Two years ago the industry was concerned with the Capital Accumulation Plan(CAP)Guidelines and how they would deal with…
© Copyright 2006 Rogers Publishing Ltd. The following article first appeared in the December 2006 edition of BENEFITS CANADA magazine. Industry Q&A: A lesson from teachers…
Bob Bertram, executive vice-president, investments, with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and BENEFITS CANADA’s Top 40 Money Managers Lifetime Achievement Award winner had just come…
Pension funds have had a rocky relationship with real estate. In the early 1990s, Canadian pension plans had, on average, almost 7% of their assets…
BC: What are your thoughts on the recent National Pharmaceuticals Strategy report? CM: The strategy they announced was fairly general. We look at it as…
FOR SEVERAL YEARS, COMMENTATORS HAVE PREDICTED that companies will need to deal with the escalating cost of the health benefits they provide to their retirees.…
IT’S A DILEMMA. CANADIANS ARE APPROACHING RETIREMENT in record numbers. Post-retirement benefits are traditionally unfunded and often loosely defined. How does an employer balance its…
In times of increased economic uncertainty, the number of tough financial choices facing the average person seems to rise exponentially. Clashing priorities battle it out:…
One employee touts the benefits of an ESOP, while an academic notes it depends on individual financial circumstances and plan design. Morgan Zirul, store manager,…
PepsiCo Canada may be known for quenching thirst and satisfying snack cravings, but the organization’s leadership recently identified another kind of demand: clearer, more personalized…