{"id":17836,"date":"2019-12-17T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/navacord-acquiring-ontario-based-smartchoice-benefits-140542"},"modified":"2019-12-17T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:00:03","slug":"navacord-acquiring-ontario-based-smartchoice-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/navacord-acquiring-ontario-based-smartchoice-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Navacord acquiring Ontario-based SmartChoice Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Merger1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Navacord acquiring Ontario-based SmartChoice Benefits\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"><span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;December 17, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Canadian insurance and risk management brokerage&nbsp;Navacord Corp. is acquiring Concord, Ont.-based SmartChoice Benefits Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;acquisition&nbsp;will&nbsp;allow Navacord to enter the third-party administration space, noted a press release. \u201cIt also shows our commitment to building the required scale, carrier relationships,&nbsp;. . . products and technology solutions to place us among the leaders in the Canadian market for employee benefits and pensions,\u201d said&nbsp;Shawn DeSantis, president and&nbsp;chief executive officer&nbsp;of Navacord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/navacord-acquires-edmonton-based-benefits-consulting-firm-132609\">Navacord acquires Edmonton-based benefits consulting firm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zeke Oudeh, founder and&nbsp;CEO of SmartChoice, said joining Navacord will provide the organization with additional infrastructure and the strength of being part of a national company. \u201cWe\u2019ve invested considerably in designing and building benefits packages that make it easy and affordable for our clients to offer the comprehensive coverage they need to be competitive in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/navacord-acquiring-ontario-based-smartchoice-benefits-140542\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;December 17, 2019 Canadian insurance and risk management brokerage&nbsp;Navacord Corp. is acquiring Concord, Ont.-based SmartChoice Benefits Inc. The&nbsp;acquisition&nbsp;will&nbsp;allow Navacord to enter the third-party administration space, noted a press release. \u201cIt also shows our commitment&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}