As the popularity of defined contribution (DC) plans grows, sponsors in the United States are taking a number of positive steps to help their employees,…
A majority of the global population does not participate in a retirement plan, a challenge which employers and governments will have to address in the…
Canadian pension plans lost ground for the third consecutive quarter as equity markets continued to fall, according to an RBC Dexia Investor Services survey. Pension…
Municipal pension plan sponsors in the United States expect their investment portfolios to outperform the market by 146 basis points annually over the next five…
According to Benefits Canada, total assets in Canadian registered pension plans passed the $1 trillion mark earlier this decade. A question often asked by plan…
The decline of defined benefit plans is being exacerbated by federal laws and regulations that foster employer underfunding, says a C.D. Howe Institute study. The…
Hydro One’s appeal to the Ontario Divisional court regarding pensions was dismissed recently, marking a second legal defeat for the utility company in a year.…
The OPSEU Pension Trust (OPTrust) reported an investment return of 5.6% in 2007, outperforming its weighted benchmark return of 4.2%. This marks the eighth consecutive…
With experts predicting an impending labour shortage due to the mass retirement of baby boomers, Quebec’s provincial government has introduced a bill aimed at smoothing…
The Alberta/British Columbia Joint Expert Panel on Pension Standards has released the submissions it has received on its website. A total of 116 submissions were…
The Quebec Court of Appeal has struck down a lower court’s decision on multi-employer pension plans that denied plan sponsors a provision which linked funding…
Canada Post’s pension plan earned a return of 2.1% last year, exceeding the benchmark return of 0.9%. “Financial markets continue to exhibit unusual volatility, as…
The financial health of Canadian pension plans declined in the first quarter of the year to levels not seen since the middle of 2005, according…
Retirement income can be sliced into three broad categories: what an individual receives from their employer, what they receive from the government and everything else.…
Canadians received a record $103 billion in benefits from life and health insurers last year, up 60 per cent from a decade earlier, according to…
The coronavirus pandemic is fundamentally changing the future of work and, very likely, the nature of employer-sponsored benefits and pension plans. Looking to the end…
Newfoundland and Labrador residents can now unlock benefits held in locked-in retirement savings arrangements for reasons of financial hardship or non-residency in Canada. The changes…
The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association is calling on the federal government to provide Canadians with access to more-secure retirement income. In its submission…
Canada’s pension system was ranked first overall among 15 countries in the Global Pension Transparency Benchmark. It ranked Canadian funds first in governance, citing the…
The Pension Investment Association of Canada is expressing its support for the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario’s draft guidelines for pension plan sponsors dealing…
The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting many trends in group retirement and investment programs, pushing the industry to be flexible and quick with some of the newer offerings.…
Alberta’s Local Authorities Pension Plan is introducing a new secure section of its website where plan members can log in, access their personal account and…
Canadian pension funds are seeing significant cost savings from in-house asset management but are still relying on external managers, according to a new survey from…
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is appointing John Graham (pictured) as its new chief executive officer, following the resignation of Mark Machin. Graham was…
The market value of assets held by Canadian employer pension plans increased to $2.12 trillion in the third quarter of 2020, according to a new report…