buy-in annuities – 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 Pension annuity transactions in Canada totalled $4.45BN in 2020: report https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/pensions/defined-benefit-pensions/annuity-transactions-in-canada-totalled-4-45bn-in-2020-report/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 19:00:26 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=104348 Despite market upheaval as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Canadian pension risk transfer market had its third-best year for group annuity transactions, according to Eckler Ltd.’s latest report. By the end of 2020, pension risk transfer market transactions totalled $4.45 billion, only slightly behind 2018’s $4.5 billion but below 2019’s $5.2 billion, noted the report. […]

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]]> Pension de-risking and the coronavirus – what now? https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/strategies/pension-de-risking-and-the-coronavirus-what-now/ Tue, 26 May 2020 04:37:10 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/pension-de-risking-and-the-coronavirus-what-now/ It’s hard to believe that just recently, people weren’t cutting their own hair or binge-watching Tiger King. At the beginning of the year, defined benefit funding levels were at record highs and many pension plan sponsors were considering reducing their pension risk. Fast forward a few months and the novel coronavirus has turned the world […]

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