Eduard van Gelderen, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board’s senior vice-president and chief investment officer, is stepping down after six years with the organization. Effective immediately, Alexandre Roy, PSP Investments’ senior managing director of total fund management, will assume the CIO’s responsibilities on an interim basis, according to a press release. Read: PSP Investments appointing Oliver […]
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is appointing Caitlin Gubbels as senior managing director and global head of private equity. In this role, she’ll lead the investment organization’s teams dedicated to direct private equity, Asian private equity and private equity funds and secondaries. Gubbels joined the CPPIB in 2010 and was most recently its head […]
An article on why Canadian workers say job flexibility is key to satisfaction was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this past week. Here are the top five human resources, benefits, pension and investment stories of the last week: 1. 70% of Canadian workers say flexibility key to job satisfaction: survey 2. Only a quarter of Canadian employees […]
Seven in 10 (70 per cent) Canadian workers say flexibility is key to job satisfaction, according to Telus Health’s latest mental-health index. It found while the average mental-health score of Canadian workers remained unchanged (63.9) from the previous month, roughly a third (34 per cent) of respondents had a high mental-health risk. Indeed, seven per cent of […]
An article on the nuances of Quebec’s pension laws was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this past week. Here are the top five human resources, benefits, pension and investment stories of the last week: 1. What should employers know about Quebec’s pension legislation? 2. Ontario’s new regulations for publicly advertised jobs providing transparency for job-seekers: expert 3. Canadian […]
An article detailing how Canada’s exemplary pension regulatory system is helping to safeguard plans from mismanagement was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this week. Here are the top five human resources, benefits, pension and investment stories of the past week: 1. Culture of compliance prevents mismanagement, conflict at Canadian pension funds: expert 2. OPB making key appointments […]
Two-fifths (41 per cent) of U.K. employees are no longer working from home at all in 2024, up from 36 per cent in 2023, according to a new survey by Mobilityways Ltd. The survey, which polled more than 10,300 commuters, also found the average number of work-from-home days dropped from 1.8 days per week in 2023 to […]
Seven in 10 U.S. workers between the ages of 40 and 80 with at least $100,000 in investable assets say they’d be “very” or “somewhat” likely to select an in-plan annuity option if it were available within their employer-sponsored retirement savings plan, according to a new report by LIMRA. It also found younger plan participants […]
Jordan Fremont is joining Stikeman Elliott LLP’s pensions and benefits group as a partner. His practice focuses on pensions, benefits and compensation plan design, as well as compliance, governance, administration, regulatory investigations, disputes and business transactions. Fremont previously practiced at Bennett Jones LLP and prior to that, at Hicks Morley Hamilton Storey Stewart LLP. Read […]
The City of Philadelphia is ordering all 26,000 municipal employees back to the office five days per week, according to a report by National Public Radio. While several unions representing the city’s workers argued that change in work arrangements must be negotiated, a Philadelphia County judge ruled in favour of city officials, who have maintained that […]