DB plans – 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 Expert panel: How DB plan sponsors can get back into the driver’s seat https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/news/cir-news-news/expert-panel-how-db-plan-sponsors-can-get-back-into-the-drivers-seat/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:00:35 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=95993 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 […]

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]]> DB pensions staring down paltry bond returns heading into 2021 https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/events/conferences/db-pensions-staring-down-paltry-bond-returns-heading-into-2021/ Wed, 16 Dec 2020 05:35:02 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/db-pensions-staring-down-paltry-bond-returns-heading-into-2021/ 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 […]

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]]> Brink’s Canada workers join CAAT’s DBplus https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/brinks-canada-workers-join-caats-dbplus/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 03:38:45 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/brinks-canada-workers-join-caats-dbplus/ 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 […]

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]]> How CN Rail pension, ATRF tackled liquidity as markets crashed https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/how-defensive-strategies-played-out-for-cn-rail-pension-atrf-as-markets-crashed/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 08:06:35 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/how-defensive-strategies-played-out-for-cn-rail-pension-atrf-as-markets-crashed/ 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 […]

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]]> DB solvency ratios inch up: FSCO https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/db-investments/db-solvency-ratios-inch-up-fsco/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:40:51 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/db-solvency-ratios-inch-up-fsco/ 1 in 4 plans now have more than 100% solvency

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]]> Solvency Ratios Dip in Q2 https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/solvency-ratios-dip-in-q2/ Thu, 06 Jul 2017 06:38:44 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/solvency-ratios-dip-in-q2/ Aon survey shows DB plans struggling with low asset returns and poor Canadian equity performance.

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]]> Canadian DB pension plan model becoming more attractive https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/db-investments/canadian-db-pension-plan-model-becoming-more-attractive/ Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:14:17 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/canadian-db-pension-plan-model-becoming-more-attractive/ U.S., and global, pension funds looking at Canadian model for investment practices.

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]]> U.S. Retirement Assets Surpass $25 Trillion Mark https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/u-s-retirement-assets-surpass-25-trillion-mark/ Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:42:42 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/u-s-retirement-assets-surpass-25-trillion-mark/ New study also shows DC is the fastest growing segment

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]]> Bad Timing https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/time-trouble/ Wed, 09 Jul 2014 02:39:40 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/time-trouble/ The real mismatch that’s killing DB pension plans: time.

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]]> Is Risk-Based Supervision Right for DC Plans? https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/expertpanel_/caroline-cakebread/is-risk-based-supervision-right-for-dc-plans/ Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:08:12 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/is-risk-based-supervision-right-for-dc-plans/ World Bank paper says it's time to think about DC risk in a different way.

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