Home Peter Drake

If baby boomers aren’t prepared for retirement, who’s going to pick up the slack?

  • March 1, 2015 September 13, 2019
  • 07:00

“I then review some of the strongest evidence concerning the efficacy of financial education; that evidence leads to the tentative conclusion that financial education has, at best, modest positive effects on savings and financial planning,” stated Saul Schwartz. “Financial literacy is critical to the prosperity and well-being of Canadians. It is more than a nice-to-have […]

  • June 1, 2011 September 13, 2019
  • 11:08

Canadians face a number of concerns as they near retirement. Investors who are about to start decumulating are seeking sound advice to help them replace uncertainty with informed judgment. They worry about whether they have saved enough, how markets will behave and if their approach to investing should be more conservative in view of market […]

  • April 25, 2011 September 13, 2019
  • 09:00

Closing the pension gap May 25, 2010 | Peter Drake In early May, I had the privilege of being a panelist at a conference held in Toronto by the Institute for Research on Public Policy. The conference was entitled ‘Avenues for Reforming the Canadian Retirement Income System’. These days, that’s a hot topic in the […]

  • May 25, 2010 September 13, 2019
  • 00:00