In 2012, the federal government’s Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act was signed into law. The plan’s objective is to create a large-scale, inexpensive pension plan for employees of companies that don’t already offer a pension. But the federal government has limited jurisdiction over the workforce, so it had to collaborate with the provinces. Quebec’s version, […]
Longevity risks, combined with a shrinking working population, are causing enormous shockwaves in the pension system.
Pension assets rose for a fifth successive quarter.
Fewer than half of Canadians 25 years of age and older have a workplace retirement savings plan.
Canada’s retirement income system maintained its “B” in the 2014 Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index.
Ottawa is on track to balance the budget, but the Macdonald-Laurier Institute warns worrying pressures lurk beneath the headline numbers.
The solvency position of Canadian pension plans dipped in the third quarter of 2014.
Institutional investors representing US$500 billion in AUM signed the Montreal Carbon Pledge today.
For the first time, gains by trusteed employer pension plans outstripped shares on the TSX.
The cost of running the Canada Pension Plan has more than tripled since 2006-07.