As it turns out, everyone. Managing asset de-accumulation risk in capital accumulation plans was the hot topic of a recent ACPM breakfast, with presentations from Paul Partridge, director, investments marketing, with Manulife Financial and Robert Klosa, director, product development at GRS market development, with Sun Life Financial.
Target-date funds (TDFs) have the potential to improve retirement incomes for DC plan members. But how do you decide on a TDF strategy?
How can you create a DC strategy that truly engages employees?
A lack of trust is your company’s biggest expense, said keynote speaker David Horsager, business strategist and best-selling author, who spoke at our recent Benefits & Pension Summit (BPS). And this issue of trust—or lack thereof—really resonates with those in the pension industry.
Many countries have too much debt today—and debt levels are moving higher, said Dr. Lacey Hunt, executive vice-president of Hoisington Investment Management Company, at a recent CFA Society event.
Canada’s anti-spam legislation comes into force on July 1, 2014, but employers need to take proactive action now, said Joseph Cohen-Lyons, an associate lawyer with Hicks Morley, at a recent client event in Toronto.
Behaviour change is hard, but targeted health interventions can have a positive impact.
I’ve belonged to a book club for many years now, and one of our recent selections was Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook. If you haven’t read it, it’s essentially the story of her meteoric rise to success as a female in a male-dominated industry.
Julie Barker-Merz, vice-president and chief operating officer of BMO Insurance, never thought that being a woman helped or hindered her early in her career. But that changed once she hit the senior management level, when her career began to stall—and she watched some of her male peers move up the corporate ladder around her.
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are growing in popularity among institutional investors, but how can pension investors incorporate them into their portfolios?