The chief executive of HOOPP has resigned as a director of Home Capital Group and its subsidiaries.
Roland Lescure is leaving Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec to work in French politics. “On the eve of the French elections, I have decided to enter public and political life because I want to play a quite active role at a crucial time for France and for Europe,” Lescure, former CIO who had […]
Three major pension funds have invested in P&C insurance companies in the past six months. Why?
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Target-date funds continue to be the most common default investment option offered to members of workplace capital accumulation plans, according to new research by the Canadian Institutional Investment Network and Great-West Life Assurance Co. The 2016 CAP Benchmark Report found 50% of defined contribution plan sponsors and 51% of group registered retirement savings plan sponsors […]
Canadian defined benefit pension plans closed out 2016 with an annual return of 6.8%, up from 5.4% in 2015.
How a change in client circumstances changes the answer.
The asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) crisis finally came to a resolution this month, with the restructured paper’s liquidation.
Employers will receive more direction from the new regulator, when it comes to following pension rules.
At least one industry group, the Insurance Bureau of Canada, has applauded the news.