Ontario’s Trillium drug plan has announced it’s modernizing its systems and infrastructure and has refocused efforts on altering the way co-ordination of benefits takes place…
Global Risk Institute looks at what's in store for 2017.
Infrastructure has been a hot topic over the past few years, with Canadian pension funds already considered investment leaders in the area amid solid returns…
More reforms just a Band-Aid solution for troubled DB plans.
We’ve all heard over and over again that Canadians spend more than they earn, a trend that has been around for a couple of generations.…
Achieving success at anything doesn’t just happen. In his 2008 book Outliers, Malcom Gladwell suggested the biggest contributing factor to success among those who are…
While it may be true that there’s nothing new under the sun in the pension world, target-benefit plans may prove the exception. In the traditional…
What happens in a world where a drug identification number can mean two very different things, depending on the product? Most drug plans have contract…
The November 2008 report from British Columbia and Alberta’s joint expert panel on pension standards encouraged the two provincial governments to take a leadership position…
Incivility in the workplace is a much larger issue than most employers realize and should be addressed in every organization in some capacity. In most…
Today’s health benefits plans are under pressure. Our labour force is changing. Based on data compiled in 2015 by Statistics Canada, 46 per cent of…
We may be witnessing the most significant changes to the funding rules of Canadian defined benefit pension plans in more than 25 years. First, since…
One of the most important decisions a plan sponsor can make is determining the amount of risk it’s willing to take in order to achieve…