Staff | August 18, 2020 Navacord Corp. is acquiring Cooke Capital, a group benefits plan provider based in Prince Edward Island, effective Aug. 13, 2020. The partnership aims to combine the two companies’ insurance and...
Kelsey Rolfe | August 18, 2020 Best Buy Canada Ltd. has had a well-used on-site gym at its Burnaby, B.C. head office for a decade. But when employees started working from home during the pandemic, the...
Staff | August 17, 2020 Active membership in Canadian registered pension plans topped 6.4 million in 2018, up about 85,000 members or 1.3 per cent from 2017, according to a new report by Statistics Canada. Female members reached another all-time high...
Staff | August 17, 2020 Manulife Financial Corp. is appointing Sarah Miller Wright as head of Canadian operations. Miller Wright’s role will be to continue Manulife Canada’s work to reimagine how it interacts with its customers...
Staff | August 17, 2020 Guardian Capital Group Ltd. is acquiring a 70 per cent interest in U.S.-based investment management firm Agincourt Capital Management. The acquisition, which is expected to add almost US$7 billion to Guardian’s...
Staff | August 14, 2020 The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board posted a 5.6 per cent net return for its first 2021 fiscal quarter, which ended June 30, 2020. The quarter saw the CPPIB’s net assets...
Staff | August 14, 2020 The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has issued additional reasons for judgment in a long-running unpaid overtime class action lawsuit against Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The court has followed up on...
Yaelle Gang, the Canadian Investment Review | August 14, 2020 While many Canadians likely started the year worried about retirement savings as the markets were ravaged by the coronavirus fallout, some employers continued to introduce new...
Martha Porado | August 14, 2020 Members of the Nunavut Employees Union are taking issue with the requirement they use vacation time to self-isolate if they visit other provinces. The territorial government put restrictions in place for travellers outside of Nunavut...
Staff | August 14, 2020 A member of parliament from the New Democratic Party is introducing a motion to convert the Canada Emergency Response Benefit into a guaranteed livable basic income. The motion from Leah Gazan, the representative for...