Patients with chronic pain and mental-health conditions prefer taking cannabis to prescribed opioid medication, a study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy has found. Researchers…
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. has acquired HSBC Bank Place and Enbridge Place in Edmonton, Alta. The investment adds more than 550,000 square feet of…
Rayne Capital Management Inc. has appointed two senior partners to its executive and portfolio management team. Mitchell Molloy will join as managing partner and David…
CEO is looking for stability over results in 'such an uncertain environment'
Alberta is slashing executive pay and perks at 23 of its agencies, boards and commissions, including ensuring health benefits are aligned with those of public…
Return exceeds benchmark and 2015 numbers
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. and the AES Corp. have agreed to acquire U.S. solar developer FTP Power LLC (sPower) from Fir Tree Partners and…
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System improved its net investment return to 10.3 per cent at the end of 2016 compared to 6.7 per cent…
As it continues to build an ‘all-terrain’ portfolio, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec posted a return of 7.6 per cent in 2016. This…
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
A story on how private payers are implementing preferred pharmacy networks to reduce benefits plan costs was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this week. Here…
The union representing more than 600 employees at GreenShield Canada in Toronto and Windsor, Ont. has ratified a three-year collective agreement that includes pension and…
More than half (55 per cent) of Canadian employees say their employer-sponsored health benefits don’t fully meet their needs and two-fifths (42 per cent) say…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is selling 2.78 per cent of its stake in India-based supply chain and logistics operator Delhivery Ltd. The total…
The funded ratio of U.S. corporate defined benefit pension plans declined to 98.5 per cent in fiscal 2023 from 99.4 per cent in 2022, according…
Even though it has been two years since the U.S. Federal Reserve started rapidly hiking interest rates, hedge fund managers aren’t more likely to have…