Colleges and Institutes Canada is the latest employer to join the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology’s DBplus pension plan. The organization, which is the voice of Canada’s colleges, Collèges d’enseignement général et professionnel, polytechnics and institutes, works with employers, governments and stakeholders, as well as helping partners around the world transform their education systems. CICan’s […]
The New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization, the Ontario Dental Association and its subsidiary Accerta are joining the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology’s DBplus pension plan. The not-for-profit organization, dental association and health-care program administrator all recently transferred to the pension plan from group registered retirement savings plans. “The talent that we’re trying to attract typically […]
The Conference Board of Canada’s 150 group plan members are joining the College of Applied Arts and Technology’s defined benefit pension plan. Effective June 1, The Conference Board will be the latest non-profit organization to join the CAAT’s DBplus plan. Other non-profits that joined the plan recently include: St. John Ambulance, the Northwest Community Legal Clinic, […]
The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan is reporting an 11.1 per cent return for 2020, exceeding its policy benchmark by 0.4 per cent. The return brings the annualized 10-year net return to 9.9 per cent, providing $1.7 billion in cumulative added value compared to the benchmark, while funding reserves increased to $3.3 […]
Approximately 500 members of the St. John Ambulance pension plan are joining the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan’s DBplus arrangement. The not-for-profit organization’s pension plan is comprised of an ongoing defined contribution plan and a defined benefit plan that was closed at the end of 2014, according to a press release. The […]
The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan is appointing Asif Haque as chief investment officer, effective May 1. Haque has worked at the CAAT for over 10 years as managing director of public markets, where his team was responsible for the plan’s $11 billion public markets portfolio. Prior to joining the organization, he held […]
Two unions representing nearly 1,000 employees of Sanofi Canada are joining the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology’s DBplus pension plan. Both Unifor Local 1701 and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 772 will join the plan effective April 1, according to a press release, which noted the company is joining the multi-employer plan […]
As part of a new collective agreement ratified earlier this year, employees at Vopak Terminals of Canada in Hamilton have joined the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan’s DBplus arrangement, effective June 1, 2020. “During their working years, CAAT members have less worry about saving for retirement, especially in a volatile investment market,” […]