So you read this issue of Benefits Canada, but were you paying attention? Take our pop quiz and find out!

1This investment strategy blurs the lines between active and passive investing by focusing on specific factors beyond the broad passive market exposure offered by traditional market cap-weighted indexes.

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 Smart beta
 Dumb beta
 Smart alpha
 Alpha beta

2 “Research shows this demographic group has a preference for personalized or voluntary benefits, including reduced-cost gym memberships or on-site facilities for fitness and health promotion.”

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 Early career
 Mid-career
 Late career
 What career?

3 Fill In The Blanks:
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___________ employees feel recognition, inspiration and pay cause them to do great work, while ___________ employees feel recognition and then autonomy causes them to do great work.

4 What is HFT?
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 Help for team-building
 High-format trading
 High-frequency trading
 Hungry for tacos

5 What is one strategy to mitigate interest rate risk?

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 Pretend it doesn’t exist
 Consider global fixed income opportunities
 Call the Bank of Canada to complain
 Buy lots of equities

6 A 2014 survey of the Municipal Retirees Organization Ontario revealed 28% of the 1,580 respondents are:

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 Exercising five times a week
 Vacationing in Florida over the winter
 Using online dating sites
 Working at paid part-time post-retirement jobs

Bonus Who did the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan recently name as its first chief operations officer?

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Find out at benefitscanada.com/people-watch


  1. A) Smart beta
  2. A) Early career
  3. Younger; older
  4. C) High-frequency trading
  5. B) Consider global fixed income opportunities
  6. D) Working at paid part-time post-retirement jobs