Staff | July 30, 2020 What makes the fees and terms of one private equity deal better than another? A new study by Callan examined 90 private equity partnerships to compare their fees and terms structures...
Staff | July 30, 2020 Sun Life Financial is making an equity investment of $32.7 million in Canadian telemedicine provider Dialogue, with the two entities forming a strategic commercial partnership. Through the deal, Sun Life will...
Staff | July 29, 2020 Canadian defined benefit pension plans experienced an upsurge in the second quarter of 2020, posting a median return of 9.6 per cent, according to RBC Investor and Treasury Services’ universe of DB pension...
Staff | July 29, 2020 People Corporation Inc. is appointing two Aon alums to its team, effective July 31. Kim Siddall is vice-president of enterprise consulting for the West and Kevin Bell is vice-president of enterprise business development...
New SMA Blog by Mark Breading, Partner, Strategy Meets Action — I’ve never been a big fan of the term disruption. I believe that in the InsurTech world, a majority of the startups are...
Martha Porado | July 29, 2020 Canadian businesses are grappling with how to move forward with conversations around race. “In order to affect the systemic changes needed to foster inclusivity, we will need collective learning and...
While the COVID-19 pandemic has had a broadly catastrophic impact on Canadians’ health and wealth, it’s arguably produced some happy accidents in the life insurance space. Some have pointed to the accelerated adoption of...
With the introduction of social distancing measures and lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19, the life insurance industry has received a long-overdue push into an era of innovation. A lot of that has...
Principal Financial Group reported about 150 claims across its life insurance business during the second quarter — a claims experience that allowed the company to dial back its COVID-19 projection going forward. Despite death...
Staff | July 28, 2020 The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is appointing Ingrid Chingcuanco as vice-president of pension operations. She joined the OMERS nearly eight years ago as director of pension policy. In that role, she provided pension...