According to the Manpower Outlook Employment Survey, which polled more than 1,700 Canadian employers, hiring will continue this quarter—just at a slower rate. The survey revealed that 21% of employers plan to increase their number of employees over the next few months, while only 5% expect to make cutbacks. Seventy percent expect no change to […]
According to the Canadian Investment Management Research Study sponsored by Greenwich Associates, Canadian institutional equity portfolios are changing the way they invest. With the levy lifted on foreign investments, and investors’ desire to diversify and reap higher returns, the tendency to invest in foreign markets has increased. In 2007, allocations to international equity rose to […]
If there is life after death, it’s possible that 8,000 Irish citizens are living it in style. The Department of Social Services and Family Affairs in Ireland is starting a “life certification project”, investigating the records of recipients of contributory pensions that are living outside of the country. The department suspects that there are at […]
Multinational organizations are trying to create global standards for compensation practices but many still have a long way to go. According to Mercer’s Global Compensation Strategy and Administration Survey, less than half of the respondents approach compensation from a global perspective. Forty-five percent of participating organizations take an almost exclusively global approach to compensation design […]