The Nova Scotia Pension Services Corp. has appointed Doug Moodie as interim president and chief executive officer, effective Oct. 28. Steven Wolff, current president and chief executive officer, is leaving to join CIBC Mellon. Moodie is a member of the Pension Services Corp.’s board and a senior solicitor with the legal services division of the […]
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has appointed Patrick De Roy senior vice-president, research, depositors and global portfolio. Read: Mercer appoints health and benefits consultant De Roy comes most recently worked as partner and risk and investment practice leader at Eckler. He has also worked as an institutional portfolio manager of fixed income at Fidelity […]
Mercer Canada has appointed Louis-Charles Godin as a health and benefits consultant. Among his new responsibilities, Godin will focus on business development for the Quebec City office and will also be in charge of the region’s group insurance clients. Godin began his career as a sales representative for SSQ Financial Group in October 2007. He […]
Fiera Properties Ltd., the real estate management investment firm and affiliate of Fiera Capital Corp., has appointed Peter Cuthbert, Blair McCreadie and William Secnik to its investment management team. Peter Cuthbert, who has been with Fiera Properties since 2012, has been appointed chief operating officer, expanding his responsibilities to include the enhancement of the firm’s […]
Accompass Inc. has enlisted a trio of executive compensation consultants to expand the firm’s compensation services. Anand Parsan, Paula Gimenez and Neil Swiggum from Korn Ferry Hay Group will be helping Accompass build an executive compensation practice. “At Accompass, we believe the big picture and the smallest detail hold equal importance,” said Michael Worb, founder and […]
Manulife Financial has appointed Christine Robinson as head of human resources. She succeeds Lisa Butler, who takes on the role of the organization’s global chief talent and diversity officer. Robinson will lead the Canadian human resources team and will join the global human resources leadership, global leadership and Canadian executive management teams. She joins Manulife […]
Foyston, Gordon and Payne Inc. has appointed Stephen Mitchell as portfolio manager for its global and international equity mandates. Mitchell was most recently Burgundy Asset Management Ltd.’s portfolio manager for global and U.S. large capitalization equity funds, which he managed for nearly 10 years. He also served as the portfolio manager for the European equity, […]
The Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers’ Pension Plan Corp. has appointed an eight-member expert board to govern its board of directors. “It is paramount that in overseeing a pension plan with over $3 billion in assets that selected appointees have the required experience and expertise,” said Finance Minister Cathy Bennett in a news release. “I commend […]
Law firm McInnes Cooper has appointed Hugh Wright as its new managing partner and chief executive officer for a three-year term that begins Sept. 1, 2016. Wright, who has led the firm’s pensions and benefits practice group for many years, is a previous member of McInnes Cooper’s board of directors and previously led the Halifax […]
Sun Life Financial has appointed Rachel McNeill-Thompson as assistant vice-president of marketing and communications and Jean-Michel Lavoie as assistant vice-president of product development in its group benefits team. Since joining Sun Life in 2012, McNeill-Thompson has held a number of roles, including assistant vice-president of marketing and communications for group retirement services and director of […]