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Pension trends: Is phased retirement an option for your employees?

Pension trends: Is phased retirement an option for your employees?

As more retirees remain on the job, companies should consider phased retirement arrangements

Investment trends: How smart beta can help with de-risking

Investment trends: How smart beta can help with de-risking

Smart beta indexes can be a useful de-risking tool

How can pension funds cope with a low interest rate environment?

How can pension funds cope with a low interest rate environment?

Interest rates in Canada will likely remain low for an extended period of time, as the Bank of Canada (BoC) appears in no rush to…

Why Canada’s pension funding regime needs an overhaul

Why Canada’s pension funding regime needs an overhaul

Canada’s pension legislators need to fix the pension solvency funding system to reflect current realities

  • By: Ian Edelist
  • January 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 07:00
How to negotiate pensions in a unionized environment

How to negotiate pensions in a unionized environment

At the best of times, making changes to a DB pension plan is a task, as sponsors try to balance business constraints with funding and…

  • By: Tony Palermo
  • November 28, 2014 September 13, 2019
  • 07:00
What can employers do to mitigate longevity risk?

What can employers do to mitigate longevity risk?

Recent mortality research in Canada has considerably extended the time at which virtually all closed-to-new- entrants DB pension plans are projected to end up with…

NHL rolls out new DB pension

NHL rolls out new DB pension

A new DB pension plan helps NHL players stickhandle major disparities in retirement income between its U.S. and Canadian teams

Your pension plan is a big deal—so promote it!

Your pension plan is a big deal—so promote it!

If you’re having trouble getting your plan members to understand and appreciate their pension benefits, ask yourself this: Do you celebrate your pension plan? Do…

Pension column: Sail away

With more Canadians expected to retire overseas, pension plan administrators need to be prepared

  • By: Roy Farah
  • October 1, 2014 September 13, 2019
  • 07:00
Avoid complacency in pension risk management

Avoid complacency in pension risk management

The financial health of Canadian DB pension plans improved dramatically in 2013. While employers have begun reaping the rewards from this improvement, they should not…

  • September 15, 2014 September 13, 2019
  • 11:44
Why you need to manage pension risk

Why you need to manage pension risk

To keep their DB plans afloat, sponsors need to ensure that they’re managing the risks

Pension column: Risk management for pension plans

Pension column: Risk management for pension plans

A number of American companies with DB plans are likely to take more deliberate actions to manage the risks in their pension obligations.

Pension column: Six tips for improving your pension communications

Pension column: Six tips for improving your pension communications

Psst! Need to talk about pensions? Here’s how to get employees to listen.

Freezing your DB plan: What to consider

Freezing your DB plan: What to consider

Freezing a DB plan can also mean more complex governance. What do plan sponsors need to know?

2014 Top 100 Pension Funds Report: Celebrate good times

2014 Top 100 Pension Funds Report: Celebrate good times

Enjoying recent gains, pension funds are turning their attention to a new challenge: keeping them

Keys to communicating target benefit, shared-risk and multi-employer plans

Keys to communicating target benefit, shared-risk and multi-employer plans

As I pointed out in this space a few months ago, target benefit, shared-risk and multi-employer plans all belong to the same genus of pension…

Wrestling with alligators

Wrestling with alligators

When it comes to your pension plan, don’t get bogged down in the swamp. Make sure you have a clear vision.

  • By: Robin Pond
  • June 1, 2014 September 13, 2019
  • 12:00
Enabling pension plan rightsizing

Enabling pension plan rightsizing

Most regulators do not view a buyout group annuity purchase from an ongoing pension plan as a complete settlement of the obligations covered by the…

  • May 22, 2014 September 13, 2019
  • 12:40
Oops, there goes my pension

Oops, there goes my pension

The decisions we ask employees to make at retirement are both complex and consequential. In many cases, there’s no going back. Whether you’re a DC…

The Age of Annuities

Is 2014 the dawn of a new era in pension plan de-risking?

  • By: Tom Ault
  • April 1, 2014 September 13, 2019
  • 07:00
Pension column: Wake-up call

Pension column: Wake-up call

What keeps MEPP decision-makers up at night?

Sink or swim?

Sink or swim?

Pension plans are the topic du jour, even outside of HR circles. Funding challenges, retirement income adequacy, intergenerational equity and financial stability are only a…

De-risking not universal

De-risking not universal

With 2013 well and truly over, a number of us begin to prepare for committee meetings—if they haven’t already been held—to discuss performance. Supported by…

  • February 14, 2014 September 13, 2019
  • 11:15
The benefits of merging Ontario pension plans

The benefits of merging Ontario pension plans

As part of the ongoing reforms to the Ontario Pension Benefits Act, major changes were made to Ontario’s pension asset transfer rules, effective Jan. 1,…

  • February 13, 2014 September 13, 2019
  • 10:28
Why sustainability is a dirty word

Why sustainability is a dirty word

When it comes to protecting the environment and our planet—sustainability is a word people can usually get behind. But ask plan members how they feel…