gender wealth gap – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Fri, 03 May 2024 21:03:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 2023 GIC coverage: How proxy voting can help institutional investors effectively steward capital https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/post-event-coverage/2023-gic-coverage-how-proxy-voting-can-help-institutional-investors-effectively-steward-capital/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:44:08 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=137845 Proxy voting is playing a bigger role in institutional investors’ environmental, social and governance strategies, according to Christie Stephenson, executive director of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business, speaking during the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2023 Global Investment Conference. Long viewed as a value […]

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]]> Report finds gender, race gaps persist in U.S. workplace retirement plan participation https://www.benefitscanada.com/pensions/cap/report-finds-gender-race-gaps-persist-in-u-s-workplace-retirement-plan-participation/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:00:32 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=130302 Two-fifths (40 per cent) of all U.S. private sector employees don’t have an employer-sponsored retirement plan and non-white workers have the least access to these plans, according to a report by T. Rowe Price Group Inc. It found that, while 58 per cent of white employees had access to workplace retirement plans, this percentage decreased […]

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]]> Canadian women retiring with 78% of male counterparts’ wealth: report https://www.benefitscanada.com/pensions/retirement/canadian-women-retiring-with-78-of-male-counterparts-wealth-report/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:00:22 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=129635 Canadian women are retiring with 78 per cent of the wealth accumulated by Canadian men, slightly better than the global average of 74 per cent, according to a new report by WTW. In North America, it found pay gaps and delayed career progression are the primary drivers of the wealth disparity between men and women, […]

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