Staff | August 26, 2020 Quebecers are more likely to start taking benefits from the Quebec Pension Plan at age 60 than other Canadians with their Canada Pension Plan benefits, according to a new study from...
Chris Gandy Many white advisors may have never asked a Black advisor what it’s like to be a minority in the industry. So Chris Gandy told them what it’s like. Gandy is president and...
How should investors react to stock-market volatility like what the COVID-19 outbreak has caused? Since the deep and drastic downturn in equity markets during the first quarter, we’ve seen a diversity of responses. On...
Canada Life is backing a new initiative that aims to support good mental health among Canadian workers as they deal with the realities of COVID-19. Through the newly launched Break Box initiative, 285 businesses...
Staff | August 25, 2020 Ivanhoé Cambridge, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec’s real estate arm, is entering into an agreement with real estate logistics specialist LOGOS Group to acquire a development site in Australia. The...
Martha Porado | August 25, 2020 The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan posted a negative return of 0.4 per cent in the first half of 2020. “The pandemic has brought some specific challenges,” said Jo Taylor, the plan’s...
Staff | August 25, 2020 While intangible assets like human capital and culture are increasingly at the forefront of employers’ concerns, frameworks to manage these factors are lagging, according to a new paper by Willis Towers Watson and the...
Staff | August 24, 2020 iA Financial Group is partnering with Homewood Health to provide plan sponsors with access to the latter’s employee assistant program. The EAP, available à la carte, is now offered as...
Staff | August 24, 2020 Toronto-based disease prevention technology company Newtopia Inc. is introducing a product suite aimed at preventing, reversing and slowing the progression of three chronic conditions. Targeting plan members of employer-sponsored health plans, the tools aim...
The InsurTech startup, known for its instant, scalable insurance policies, will build a new type of coverage to protect small businesses from COVID-19 and future pandemics Toronto, ON (Aug. 11, 2020) – Thimble, the...