BMO completes sale of U.S. retirement services business
BMO has completed the previously announced sale of its Milwaukee-based U.S. retirement services business to OneAmerica.
- By: Staff
- October 2, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 09:00
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QPP offers lessons for ORPP: Report
The underfunding the QPP saw during its early years offers lessons for the upcoming Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP)—as well as for a potentially expanded…
- By: Staff
- October 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 10:42
Minimum wage goes up in several provinces
Minimum wage earners in all three Prairie provinces, along with Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador are getting a pay hike today. Read: On-call shifts come…
- By: Canadian Press
- October 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 10:17
CPPIB to invest $1 billion in energy infrastructure
Canada’s largest pension fund manager is committing $1 billion for energy infrastructure acquisitions in Western Canada, in partnership with a private Calgary-based firm with expertise…
- By: Canadian Press
- October 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 09:36
Benefits Canada News
Saying goodbye
Like many people in our industry, I remember where I was when the 2008 financial crisis hit. I’d been with Rogers for one year as…
- By: Alyssa Hodder
- October 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
Benefits Canada News
Breakdown: As they said it
Canada’s officially in a recession, the loonie remains weak, and the debate about boosting the public pension system is still raging. What do decision-makers have…
- By: Yaldaz Sadakova
- October 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
Benefits Canada News
Quick Hits
In October 2015's Quick Hits: Top 10 craziest interview behaviours, Health Byte, This Month in Numbers, and more...
- By: Staff
- October 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
How to promote Healthy Workplace Month
October is Canada's Healthy Workplace Month.
- By: Staff
- October 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
Canadian seniors outnumber kids for first time ever
Canada's seniors have edged out the number of children under the age of 14, according to the latest population figures that experts say contain further…
- By: Canadian Press
- September 30, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
Investors ditch emerging markets
Global investors are estimated to have sold US$40 billion worth of emerging market assets in the third quarter of 2015, according to the Institute of…
- By: Staff
- September 30, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 07:00
B.C. introduces new pension standards
The British Columbia government is announcing new standards for workplace pension plans, creating options that could be activated even before an employee retires.
- By: Canadian Press
- September 29, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 16:10
CIBC to set target numbers for women on board, in executive roles
CIBC plans to set formal targets this year for the number of women on its board of directors and in executive officer positions, the bank's…
- By: Canadian Press
- September 29, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 15:24
NYC mayor urges pension funds to sell coal stocks
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is proposing that the city's pension funds divest from coal.
- By: Staff
- September 29, 2015 September 13, 2019
- 14:14
Report finds critical lack of workplace support for menopausal employees
While menopause impacts more than half of the workforce, there’s a critical lack of support in the workplace for women employees experiencing health issues related…
- By: Staff
- May 2, 2024 May 1, 2024
- 09:00
CPPIB sells 2.78% stake in India logistics firm
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…
- By: Staff
- May 1, 2024 May 1, 2024
- 15:00
90% of U.S. workers have ‘rage applied’ for a job in the last 6 months: survey
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…
- By: Staff
- May 1, 2024 May 1, 2024
- 15:00
Funded ratio of 100 largest U.S. corporate DB pension plans declines to 98.4% in fiscal 2023: report
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…
- By: Staff
- May 1, 2024 April 30, 2024
- 09:00
Expert panel: Have hedge funds budged on hurdle rates?
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…
- By: Les Marton
- April 30, 2024 April 29, 2024
- 11:00
Public meeting in Edmonton attracts hundreds amid talk of province’s CPP withdrawal
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…
- By: Staff
- April 30, 2024 April 29, 2024
- 09:00