Expert panel: How DB pension plan sponsors can use surplus – test
In 2022, the typical defined benefit pension plan achieved an investment return of roughly negative 12 per cent. However, due to dramatic increases in bond…
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Expert panel: How to get, keep top talent amid labour crunch
For months, Canadian employers have been creaking under the strain of a labour crunch. Finding top talent has always been one of leaders’ most pressing…
- By: Jaqui Parchment
- November 30, 2021 November 29, 2021
- 09:00
Expert panel: Inflation risk — to hedge or not to hedge?
With October inflation hitting an 18-year high, inflation risk is back on the radar of plan sponsors providing inflation-linked defined benefit pensions. In the past,…
- By: Brent Simmons
- November 25, 2021 November 26, 2021
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Expert panel: How to connect with employees in a remote world
In Canada, the coronavirus pandemic is entering a new phase — vaccines are widely available, travel restrictions are gradually lifting and people are returning to…
- By: Serafina Morgia
- November 23, 2021 November 23, 2021
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Expert panel: Less talk, more action needed to move needle on DEI at top
While talk about the importance of improving diversity on corporate boards and in the C-suite has been ongoing for decades, actual action has been too…
- By: Wendy Cukier
- November 9, 2021 November 10, 2021
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Expert panel: A look at commodity price behaviour over the business cycles
With gas and oil prices reaching new heights last week, panicking both politicians and consumers, we must ask ourselves if this behaviour is typical of…
- By: George Athanassakos
- November 2, 2021 November 2, 2021
- 12:35
Expert panel: Six ways to incorporate green initiatives into benefits offerings
The Council of Parties to the United Nations’ climate convention, known as COP26, which is currently underway in Glasgow has put climate change on the…
- By: Kim Siddall
- November 2, 2021 November 4, 2021
- 09:00
Expert panel: How could inflation impact DB pension plans?
After being off of Canadians’ radar screens for years, the re-emergence of inflation in recent months is receiving significant attention for many, including pension plan…
- By: Gavin Benjamin
- October 26, 2021 October 25, 2021
- 09:00
Expert panel: The concept of risk and risk management in value investing and modern portfolio theory
Between mixed signals about inflation, signs of structural weakness in China’s over-leveraged real estate sector and September’s low returns on global equities, institutional investors have…
- October 14, 2021 October 14, 2021
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Sounding board: Institutional investors making Canada’s approach to China unsustainable
With the repatriation of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor following their three-year incarceration in China, relations between Ottawa and Beijing are to be reset.…
- By: Sam Goodman
- October 12, 2021 October 25, 2021
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Expert panel: Digital health solutions take a holistic approach to patient care
Various forms of digital health care have been available in Canada for several years, but I’d argue nothing has accelerated the awareness, need and adoption…
- By: Kenneth MacDonald
- October 5, 2021 October 5, 2021
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Expert panel: Equal access to benefits, digital transformation among keys to return to work
COVID-19 cases are dropping and vaccine counts are rising. The economy is reopening and we can expect to be back at the office soon. But…
- By: Jaqui Parchment
- July 27, 2021 July 26, 2021
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Expert panel: Understanding the changing legal climates for institutional investors
In case you missed it, a recent legal opinion by pension lawyer Randy Bauslaugh suggested plan sponsors might be personally liable for failing to consider…
- By: Catherine Ann Marshall
- July 20, 2021 July 23, 2021
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