Funding status – 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 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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]]> DB plans are better funded but expect returns to slump https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/db-plans-are-better-funded-but-expect-returns-to-slump/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 05:42:54 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/db-plans-are-better-funded-but-expect-returns-to-slump/ Defined benefit pension plans are lowering their long-term return expectations, according to research from U.S. consulting firm, NEPC. According to the NEPC’s survey of corporate and healthcare DB pensions, a third of plan sponsors now have a return assumption of six per cent or less, compared with 20 per cent that said the same in […]

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