While improving a defined contribution pension plan may appear to be simple, ensuring employees fully understand the changes is a crucial part of the exercise,…
While managers of target-date funds have benefited from strong tailwinds in recent years, how can they manage the current environment of uncertainty? Ruthann Pritchard, an…
Transitioning to a defined contribution plan from a defined benefit arrangement is hard enough during the best of times. But when the organization is a…
While saving for retirement is an incredibly long journey, visualizing the entire process is a great way to get to better outcomes, according to Neil…
Participants at Benefits Canada’s Defined Contribution Plan Summit spent two days listening to a large roster of speakers offer up solutions on everything from communication tips…
Moderators: Nadia Darwish, vice-president of development, marketing and investment strategy; and Karrina Dusablon, vice-president of business development, client relationship and member experience, at Desjardins Insurance…
Moderators: Christine van Staden, regional vice-president, group customer; and George Ng, senior account executive, group customer, at Great-West Life Assurance Co. Canada is an increasingly…
Moderators: Erica Hall, assistant vice-president for client relations, group retirement solutions; and Sharon Seifried, national vice-president for corporate accounts, group retirement solutions, at Manulife Financial…
Moderators: Mazen Shakeel, vice-president of market development, group retirement services; and Jean-François Pelletier, regional vice-president for group retirement services, Quebec, at Sun Life Financial The…
For any pension plan administrator looking for guidance around governance responsibilities, look no further than the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities’ guideline No. 4. The…
Common Wealth is teaming up with James Evans and Associates Ltd. to support the former’s retirement plans with member-focused, self-service plan administration and record-keeping technology. JEA’s technology allows employers…
With studies showing high levels of employee stress about their finances that’s translating into lost productivity, absenteeism or health issues, the time is right for financial wellness…
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has published guidance on its interpretation and expectations for the default investment option selected by the administrator…
Ontario has published a description of its proposed regulations around the payment of variable benefits from defined contribution pension plans one year after announcing its intention to…
Nest Wealth Asset Management Inc. is launching a digital group registered retirement savings plan in an effort to make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to provide retirement…
The Co-operative Superannuation Society pension plan is one of Canada’s largest defined contribution plans, growing from its Saskatchewan roots in 1939 to include some 351 employers from across the…
With markets showing signs of potential extreme volatility in recent weeks, how can employers address the many questions that arise from pension plan members? When speaking to members, consultants…
Over the past 25 years, Canada’s retirement system has evolved significantly through new funding frameworks and federal and provincial reforms to facilitate innovation in plan…
In order to understand how much to save, the starting point should be determining a retirement budget. Not only will such an exercise help employees…
Plan sponsors, their members and record keepers have divergent views about the top priorities when it comes to their defined contribution pensions, according to a new report by…
Providing a defined contribution pension to employees since 1969, Western University is in a unique position to share how the landscape for these plans has evolved over time and…
Net returns in defined benefit pension plans were higher than net returns in defined contribution plans by an average of 0.46 per cent annually over the…
Ernst & Young has introduced an online retirement modelling tool to help employees prepare for life after work. Since its launch at the end of January,…
While 84 per cent of employers with capital accumulation plans didn’t intend to make any changes in 2017, many anticipated increasing their provision of financial advice services after…
Despite a rise in total contributions to registered retirement savings plans in 2016, the total number of contributors was down slightly, according to the latest census…