One-quarter (25 per cent) of employers feel their employees have a poor overall understanding of their defined contribution pension or group registered retirement savings plan,…
Despite employers struggling to retain millennials, only 10 per cent have done anything to integrate them with co-workers from other generations, according to a new…
Benefits are now available for a new kind of employee dependant – fur babies. Digital benefits platform League’s lifestyle spending account is traditionally used for…
Mercer Canada has appointed Todd McLean as partner and office leader, based in its Vancouver office. McLean, who joins Mercer with more 25 years of…
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has promoted Jo Taylor to senior managing director, international, effective Jan. 1, 2017. Taylor, who joined Ontario Teachers’ in 2012,…
Montreal, December 1, 2016 – Transcontinental Media G.P., a subsidiary of Transcontinental Inc. (TSX: TCL.A TCL.B), is pleased to announce today the acquisition of all…
Investors would be wise to pay attention to upcoming political events when deciding on asset allocations, participants at an investment symposium heard yesterday. “One thing…
Global institutional investors are expecting to make more asset allocation changes in the next couple of years than they did in 2012 and 2014, according…
While 52 per cent of employee respondents said they would support automatic enrolment, just 27 per cent of employer respondents said they currently automatically enroll…
Duane Green will become president and chief executive officer of Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. upon the retirement of Don Reed on Jan. 31, 2017. In…
GE Canada has relaunched its online retirement tool to help employees understand how the organization supports them in saving for retirement and how they can…
At design services firm Dialog, awkward annual reviews with their nerve-wracking five-point rating system are no more. “No-one enjoyed doing them,” says Tania Oppedisano, Dialog’s…
Employers and employees have very different views on who bears the responsibility for ensuring employees retire successfully, according to Benefits Canada’s 2016 CAP Member Survey.…
Don Smith, the recently suspended chair of the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan’s board of trustees, has been removed from his position…
The University Pension Plan Ontario is creating a joint venture with Schroders Capital to invest in high-quality logistics and industrial real estate across northwestern Europe.…
The average Canadian defined benefit pension plan returned 0.6 per cent during the fourth quarter of 2025, down from 4.4 per cent in the previous…
The federal government is expanding its return-to-office mandate for public employees. As of May 4, executives in the federal public service will be required to…
With the new year may come new resolutions — or at least topics to keep in mind — for capital accumulation plan sponsors. Ongoing compliance…
An article on the suspension of the board chair at the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan was the most-read article on BenefitsCanada.com…