The Royal Bank of Canada will share its focus on sleep hygiene and the impact on mental health at the 2017 Benefits and Pension Summit…
Canada is lagging behind other jurisdictions in establishing a regulatory framework for due diligence around human rights in global supply chains, according to a new…
The Ontario Pension Board has appointed Geri Markvoort as chair of its board of directors. Patricia Croft, who was the acting chair until a permanent…
Head of CPPIB reflects on demographic similarities between the two countries
Ivanhoé Cambridge, the real estate subsidiary of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, is partnering with a diversified company based in India to invest…
In 2014, there were approximately five new cancer diagnoses per 1,000 Canadians outside of Quebec, according to Statistics Canada. In total, there were more than…
Manitoba should initiate an overall pension funding reform review similar to other provinces rather than continuing to rely on temporary solvency relief measures, according to…
More than a third (34 per cent) of global institutional investors invest in four or more alternative asset classes, according to a new report by…
As a speaker at this spring’s Global Investment Conference, Janice Stein, founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto,…
Canada’s health-care union, the Services Employees International Union Healthcare, is introducing a new low-fee, portable retirement plan for its members and their family members. The…
A genetic testing bill is winding through Parliament, keeping the Canadian insurance industry on tenterhooks. Bill S-201, the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act, seeks to revise the…
The federal government should allow each province to decide which health-care services would best serve their populations, a report from the Montreal Economic Institute argues.…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québe and Capital régional et coopératif Desjardins have reinvested $90 million in Capital Croissance PME, a fund created to…
Ontario will do away with sick note requirements for short absences as part of a larger effort to ease the administrative burden on doctors. The…
An Ontario Superior Court ruling that allowed IBM Canada Ltd. to retrospectively rectify drafting errors that created unintended additional pension benefits for employees on disability…
In 2023, diabetes medications remained the leading drug category for eligible private insurance claims for the second consecutive year, according to Telus Health’s annual drug…
The Workplace Insurance and Safety Employees Trust generated a net return of 7.9 per cent in 2023, with net assets reaching $4 billion, up from…
Renowned American businessman and investor Charlie Munger once said, “You have to keep learning if you want to become a great investor. When the world…
The funded ratio of the average Canadian defined benefit pension plan, excluding the effect of asset smoothing, reached 124 per cent as at March 31,…