Blogs – Benefits Canada.com https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:41:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Test Blog 3 https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/blogs/hr-leadership-breakfast-series/test-blog-3/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:45:56 +0000 https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/?p=112871 Suspendisse accumsan volutpat dolor, in hendrerit sapien cursus et. Nullam ut diam ac quam ullamcorper mattis. Mauris risus augue, ultrices ut mattis quis, pellentesque vel augue. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Etiam magna tortor, molestie sed nibh non, fringilla auctor leo. Ut tincidunt neque in ipsum placerat […]

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]]> Is it time for an asset-strategy check-up? https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/strategies/is-it-time-for-an-asset-strategy-check-up/ Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:14:00 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/is-it-time-for-an-asset-strategy-check-up/ At the time of my last column in May, many pension plan sponsors were catching their breath after watching funding levels take a roller coaster ride. After a steep drop earlier in the year, funding levels were slowly recovering. However, market uncertainty remained and it wasn’t clear what was coming next. Thankfully the last few […]

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]]> The green shoots of Canada’s green bond market https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/fixed-income/the-green-shoots-of-canadas-green-bond-market/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 05:08:27 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/the-green-shoots-of-canadas-green-bond-market/ Canada’s green bond market has been growing, but investors would benefit from digging a little deeper to ensure what they’re buying is in fact green and not merely clever greenwashing. Green bonds are still in their infancy. The world’s first green bond was introduced in 2007 and the first Canadian one was issued in 2012. […]

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]]> Looking beyond the U.S. for quality fundamentals at the right price https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/looking-beyond-the-us-for-quality-fundamentals-at-the-right-price/ Mon, 10 Aug 2020 03:52:04 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/looking-beyond-the-us-for-quality-fundamentals-at-the-right-price/ US equities have dominated their global peers over the past decade. As of 30 June, the S&P 500 had returned 14.5 per cent per annum since hitting bottom during the global financial crisis in March 2009 compared to only 7.6 per cent for the MSCI All-Country World ex-USA Index. The outperformance of US shares isn’t […]

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]]> Higher tax rates expected in Biden administration https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/higher-tax-rates-expected-in-biden-administration/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:00:03 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/higher-tax-rates-expected-in-biden-administration/ Former vice-president Joseph Biden will inherit an economy beleaguered by the battle against the coronavirus if he wins the election in November. The recession will influence his legislative priorities in both the short and long term; however, Biden has indicated that he would raise an array of corporate and personal taxes to finance domestic programs, […]

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]]> A fundamental problem with target-date funds https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/dc-investments/a-fundamental-problem-with-target-date-funds/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 04:45:55 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/a-fundamental-problem-with-target-date-funds/ Target-date funds lead to defined contribution plan members taking more risk and becoming more diversified than they would be if left to their own devices. But despite these benefits, TDFs fail to provide what members really want and need — a reliable income replacement for life managed by somebody else. My colleague Ioulia Tretiakova and […]

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]]> Coronavirus: a true test of partnership for private equity firms https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/alts/coronavirus-a-true-test-of-partnership-for-private-equity-firms/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 03:37:23 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/coronavirus-a-true-test-of-partnership-for-private-equity-firms/ As the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the way businesses operate, investors around the world have been able follow daily market gyrations in real time to see how public companies are being impacted and what the crisis is doing to valuations. What has been perhaps less visible is how private equity firms have responded to the […]

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]]> The slow burn of climate change in heat of pandemic https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/the-slow-burn-of-climate-change-in-heat-of-pandemic/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 03:41:10 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/the-slow-burn-of-climate-change-in-heat-of-pandemic/ Meeting a deadline in the midst of a pandemic seems like a good test of corporate resiliency and, according to a recent survey of Canadian Principles for Responsible Investment signatories that I conducted on behalf of my consulting firm Real Alts, the majority of respondents likely passed. The survey found that almost 80 per cent […]

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