TBC Capital's Geoff Moore talks to Forbes.
After enduring two equity market crashes in the past decade, most investors are now approaching risk management with renewed emphasis. In this new reality, pension plan sponsors are forced to assess the evolution of risk management techniques and current approaches to managing pension funding volatility. The bear market of 2000–2002 was a wake-up call to […]
Most, if not all, of the commonly used stock markets today are measured by market capitalization-weighted indexes. Many believe these indexes represent the best way of measuring how a market performs. In fact, market cap-weighted indexes have dominated the assessment of equity market performance over the past 30 to 40 years, as they are seen […]
Young workers worldwide present an unusual paradox for employers: They are more likely than the overall workforce to be satisfied with the organizations for which they work, yet also more likely to be considering leaving them. That’s the result of Mercer’s What’s Working survey of nearly 30,000 workers across 17 geographic markets. According to the […]
Canada has held on to its fifth place ranking in a global comparison of pension systems, but significant reform is still needed. According to the 2011 Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index, many of the world’s retirement systems are under significant stress and even the most advanced pension systems—including Canada’s—require ongoing reform to ensure they’re robust […]
Amid concerns of a global economic slowdown, Canadian pension plans experienced significant losses on both sides of the balance sheet in the third quarter of 2011, according to the Mercer Pension Health Index. The index measures the ratio of assets to liabilities for a model pension plan. It stood at 60% on Sept. 30, down […]
Pension deficits are on the rise among S&P 1500 companies, according to new figures from Mercer. According to the firm, the combined deficits of pensions sponsored by companies in the S&P 1500 increased by $134 billion in September 2011—from an overall deficit of $378 billion as of Aug. 31, 2011, to $512 billion at the […]
While plan sponsors across the country are retreating from DB arrangements that are costly to the bottom line in good times—and even more so in economic downturns such as those we’ve faced over the past decade—more and more are looking to DC as an alternative retirement savings option for their employees. According to the 2011 […]
There has been tremendous focus in recent years on advancements in insurer technology in areas such as employee self-service, online reporting, e-claims and Web-based administration systems. For an industry that has historically been slow to embrace technology, there has now been a significant amount of catch-up in the last three to five years. But are […]
Originally from our sister publication, Advisor.ca. In the now-iconic scene set in Katz’s Delicatessen in New York City, a woman of some years mischievously asks her waiter to bring her the rye and pastrami sandwich she assumes was responsible for Meg Ryan’s character Sally’s head-turning display of euphoria. Portfolio envy is a lesser-known form of […]