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May 29, 2017
Recently overshadowed by the big announcement on the new funding framework for defined benefit pension plans, earlier this month the Ontario government issued a pair of […]
May 12, 2017
I hope readers all remember the childhood game of musical chairs. Kids walk in a circle around a set of chairs while music plays – when […]
May 2, 2017
Driving home from Toronto a few weeks I caught a program on CBC about the elimination of letter grades on report cards in Maple Ridge, BC. […]
April 26, 2017
In March, the Ontario government quietly released the Final Report of the Expert Committee to Consider Financial Advisory and Financial Planning Policy Alternatives, which the Liberals […]
April 19, 2017
I have long argued that mortality rates in Canada, and around the first-world more generally, may not be destined to improve indefinitely. This skepticism is rooted […]
March 28, 2017
I have been fascinated by the dispute between the Ontario Government and the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario that has transpired regarding the treatment […]
February 28, 2017
On January 1, 2017, the Ontario government has changed the definition of spouse under the Pension Benefits Act which will affect the way death […]
February 14, 2017
Real estate agents and insurance brokers are often maligned. It offends some people that an individual can collect a big fat commission cheque for what […]
January 31, 2017
Are your pension plan governance processes as good as they can be? Are you following the governance practices that you’ve established? Do you even know how […]
January 17, 2017
The last decade has seen much written and discussed about de-risking and in fact as I look back I started seeing this discussion emerge twenty years […]
January 3, 2017
With 2016 now in the past, it is time for pension plan sponsors to take stock and plan for 2017. Solvency position at December 31, 2016 […]
December 12, 2016
In Niagara Falls on October 22, 2016, Bill Morneau, Canada’s Finance Minister, advised young Canadians to get used to “job churn”. Mr. Morneau expects high job […]