No room for excuses on new GST/HST tax filings
The pieces to the GST/HST puzzle for trustees and sponsors of registered pension plans and other employee benefits plans are now all out of the…
- By: Greg Hurst
- June 3, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 11:02
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Overcoming employee apathy
For some employers, getting employees to formulate a financial plan for retirement is much like leading a horse to water. You can’t make employees plan…
- By: April Scott-Clarke
- June 2, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 13:45
Indalex case: protection of underfunded pension entitlements
The treatment and protection of members’ accrued pensions in an underfunded DB pension plan following the insolvency of the plan sponsor has been the subject…
- By: Philip Morse
- June 1, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 13:30
An IFRS checklist for pension plans
As of January, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are in effect for publicly traded Canadian companies. What’s pertinent to DB plans and other post-retirement benefits…
- By: Scot Blythe
- May 20, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 08:57
How to deal with excessive risk concentration
In my previous column, Examining portfolio risk, we discussed ex-ante risk, ex-post risk and how both measures can provide greater understanding of portfolio risk. In…
- By: By Jonathan Jacob
- May 17, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 09:50
Layton pushes for pension reform
Jack Layton wants provincial premiers onside as his New Democrats use their new-found status in Parliament to push for strengthened public pensions. The newly minted…
- By: Vikram Barhat, with files from Canadian Press
- May 12, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 10:31
Pension legislation changes come into force July 1
As of July 1, more amendments to the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985 contained in Bill C-9 will come into force. These will apply to…
- By: Staff
- May 6, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 11:27
Chief actuary releases CPP review panel findings
The Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) of Canada has released the findings of an external peer review panel commissioned to review the 25th Actuarial…
- By: Staff
- May 5, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 10:56
Making money out of mergers and acquisitions
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is a cyclical business, and, after the meltdown and liquidity issues of 2008, it has been in a trough, to…
- By: Sophie Elkrief
- May 4, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 13:19
Towers Watson pension data shows small gains
Pension funding levels at large companies improved modestly at the end of last year, largely due to the moderate stock market gains and employer contributions.…
- By: Staff
- May 2, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 13:52
DB not affordable anymore: Hamilton
Pensions are inextricably tied to the economy, said Malcolm Hamilton, an actuary with Mercer (Canada) Ltd., speaking recently in Toronto at the Association of Canadian…
- By: Brooke Smith
- May 2, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 09:38
Portability, auto-enrollment keys to PRPP success
The federal government’s December 2010 announcement of the pooled retirement pension plan (PRPP) arrangement has been the most significant piece of pension reform introduced in…
- By: Neil Faba
- May 2, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 09:30
Pensions: Travelling the long, winding M&A road
With the credit and economic turmoil of 2008 and 2009 now well behind us and the flurry of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity at the…
- By: Kevin M. Sorhaitz and David McCullagh
- April 29, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 11:34
PRPPs: Not a silver bullet
The Framework for Pooled Registered Pension Plans, released by the Department of Finance in December 2010, suggests that the introduction of pooled registered pension plans…
- By: Barbara Austin
- April 29, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 10:31
What’s your party’s pension reform agenda
As I write this, the first federal election campaign of 2011 is entering the home stretch. I say “first,” because the discordant tenor of the…
- By: Greg Hurst
- April 28, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 09:40
Provincial and federal pension reforms – simplified
Pensions are politically difficult, said Peggy McCallum, a partner with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, speaking at the Association of Canadian Pension Management’s spring session, Checking…
- By: Brooke Smith
- April 27, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 06:48
Infrastructure financing improving
The current state of infrastructure in Canada and its future development compare favourably with the rest of the world. An expert panel at the recent…
- By: Vikram Barhat
- April 21, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 13:13
The results of blurred lines in pension administration
The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in the Ault v. Canada (Attorney General) case serves as a reminder to pension service providers that they…
- By: Jana Steele
- April 21, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 11:41
Peter Bethlenfalvy joins Manulife
Peter Bethlenfalvy has joined Manulife Financial in the role of senior vice-president, financial regulations. He will be responsible for strategy and monitoring of financial regulatory…
- By: Staff
- April 19, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 11:49
Ontario pension reform explained
Two recent bills introduced in Ontario put forward some important changes to the more than 8,000 employee pension plans regulated by the province. A webinar…
- By: Neil Faba
- April 18, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 13:57
Solvency relief for public sector pensions: Ontario
On Feb.10, 2011, Ontario released details on Proposed 2011 Solvency Relief, measures that would provide temporary solvency funding relief for eligible public sector and broader…
- By: Philip Morse
- April 18, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 13:27
No jail for pension fraudster
A Winnipeg man who collected more than $80,000 from his dead mother’s pension payments has been given a suspended sentence. Government pension payments from both…
- By: Staff
- April 15, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 11:38
Get employees to take action: make a culture shift
Every year, the pension industry conducts research that measures how engaged participants are in their retirement plans. Despite tremendous efforts by plan sponsors to educate…
- By: Karrina Dusablon
- April 14, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 13:45
Caisse reports strong single-year gain
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec reported a 13.6% return in its annual report for fiscal 2010, which was released today. “I am…
- By: Neil Faba
- April 13, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 11:49
CPPIB partners in $350 million investment
Warburg Pincus, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and KERN Partners have agreed to invest up to $350 million in Black Swan Energy Ltd.,…
- By: Staff
- April 12, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 10:35