The market value of assets held by Canadian trusteed pension funds reached $2.5 trillion at the end of the first quarter 2025, representing an 8.7 per cent increase year over year, according to a new report from Statistics Canada. It analyzed the top 250 trusteed pension plans, which equates to roughly 90 per cent of […]
More than half of Canadian women say they feel unprepared for menopause and nearly 60 per cent are unaware that symptoms such as anxiety, depression and memory issues are linked to this stage of life, according to a new report by GreenShield and Mental Health Research Canada. The report analyzed survey responses from more than […]
The Alberta Pensions Services Corp. has taken on the administration of the National Public Service Pension Transfer Agreement, a multilateral arrangement that enables the transfer of pensionable service and funds between participating public defined benefit pension plans across Canada. This agreement plays a vital role in supporting mobility within the public sector, allowing employees who […]
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is reporting $75.5 billion worth of green assets in its fiscal year 2025, up from $64.9 billion during the previous year, according to the investment organization’s latest climate disclosure report. Carbon-intensive assets held by the investment organization declined by 23 per cent compared to fiscal 2024 while its transition […]
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is appointing Dale Burgess executive managing director of equities, effective immediately. Burgess has been at the investment organization since 1996 and has already been in this role on an interim basis since February, overseeing the equities investment department globally. Read: Ontario Teachers’ names Kevin Kerr as executive managing director, portfolio […]
U.S. employer health-care costs are projected to climb 9.5 per cent in 2026, pushing average plan costs above US$17,000 per employee, according to a new report by Aon. The report draws on the firm’s health value initiative database, which tracks plan costs and designs for more than 1,000 employers covering 7.7 million employees and US$120 […]
The New Brunswick Public Service Pension Plan is reporting a funded status of 136.5 per cent as at Dec. 31, 2024, and will provide a full cost-of-living adjustment of 2.01 per cent to all members. Last year, the plan returned 12.65 per cent and its long-term rate of return increased to 7.14 per cent, surpassing […]
The Workplace Insurance and Safety Employee Trust is appointing Trevor Cartlidge as chief pension officer and vice-president of funding and innovation. In the new role, Cartlidge will oversee funding strategy, actuarial oversight and innovation in pension service delivery. Most recently, he was deputy chief actuary of pensions at the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario. […]
While just a quarter (24 per cent) of Canadian small- and medium-sized employers say they’ve seen an increase in employee absences due to mental-health issues over the last 12 months, eight in 10 (80 per cent) say they aren’t confident that employees would disclose mental-health issues, according to a new survey by Peninsula Canada. The […]
The financial health of working Canadians may finally be improving after years of decline, according to a new survey by the National Payroll Institute. The survey, which polled more than 2,320 employees, found the proportion of workers who described themselves as financially stressed has decreased from 41 per cent in 2024 to 36 per cent […]