Some Japanese employees are literally working themselves to death. With hundreds of people succumbing to punishing overtime hours each year, the deaths are common enough…
When support staff working for British Columbia’s public education system call in sick for up to six consecutive days, they receive notification from a union…
Pension plans, like many businesses, rely on information. While the retention of certain pension plan records is subject to regulation, decisions with respect to the…
Despite the federal government’s plan to move ahead with reforms to the Canada Pension Plan, a recent survey by Aon Hewitt has found only 35…
Several Quebec municipalities, including Laval and Montreal, have suspended indexation on retirees’ pension plans, effective Jan. 1, 2017. Many defined benefit pensions plans provide indexation on an…
More than half of the companies in the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 index would be able to clear their defined benefit pension deficits in less…
Finance Minister Bill Morneau suggests the upcoming federal budget will have the room to deal with whatever economic climate may ensue as the Donald Trump administration takes…
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System Sponsors Corp. has appointed Paul Harrietha as chief executive officer. In the new role, Harrietha is responsible for providing…
It’s a little shocking to realize that 1,100 Canadians are turning 65 every day. Of that number, about 500 will be relying on their own…
Assets under management in exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products in Canada reached US$84 billion at the end of 2016, according to a new report. The…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has appointed Kim Thomassin as executive vice-president of legal affairs and secretariat, effective Jan. 30, 2017. In the…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has invested in a United States-based wholesale data centre developer in partnership with RedBird Capital Partners. Established in 2011 and…
Institutional investors want ‘climate competency’ in Canada’s boardrooms: report
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…
A majority (90 per cent) of U.S. workers have “rage applied” for a new job in the last six months, according to a new survey by Bold…
As more insurers turn to preferred pharmacy networks to decrease costs, their efforts are being met with some resistance by plan members who may be…
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…
Hundreds of Albertans turned out for a meeting in Edmonton last week to hear officials from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board discuss the state…