Much has been written about how 2020 was unprecedented, challenging and exhausting — take your pick of adjectives. It was also a white-knuckle ride for many Canadian defined benefit plan sponsors as they watched the funded status of their pension plans plummet sharply and then rebound. Most plans’ funded statuses are now at, or even […]
Central banks slowing their quantitative easing policies and economic improvements off the back of wide-scale vaccination efforts should both provide bond yields with a modest boost in 2021. But that won’t give defined benefit pension plan sponsors much relief. “You hear the phrase ‘low for long’ and I would agree we’re in an extended period […]
Brink’s Canada Ltd. is the latest employer to join the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan’s DBplus offering. Represented by Unifor, 582 full- and part-time workers from Ontario and 175 from British Columbia officially became part of the plan on a go-forward basis effective July 1, 2020. “We are delighted to welcome Brink’s […]
When the coronavirus pushed equity markets off a cliff, Canadian defined benefit pension plans had to mobilize to address a number of concerns. The Canadian National Railway Co. pension recently shifted towards a more defensive investment strategy, said Marlene Puffer, president and chief executive officer for the CN investment division of the company, at a […]
1 in 4 plans now have more than 100% solvency
Aon survey shows DB plans struggling with low asset returns and poor Canadian equity performance.
U.S., and global, pension funds looking at Canadian model for investment practices.
New study also shows DC is the fastest growing segment
The real mismatch that’s killing DB pension plans: time.
World Bank paper says it's time to think about DC risk in a different way.