{"id":18968,"date":"2020-07-14T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/blair-richards-moves-to-cio-of-halifax-port-ilahea-pension-plan-148007"},"modified":"2020-07-14T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:30:54","slug":"blair-richards-moves-to-cio-of-halifax-port-ila-hea-pension-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/blair-richards-moves-to-cio-of-halifax-port-ila-hea-pension-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair Richards moves to CIO of Halifax Port ILA\/HEA pension plan"},"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\/2020\/07\/DC_BlairRichards.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Blair Richards moves to CIO of Halifax Port ILA\/HEA pension plan\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;July 14, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>The Halifax Port ILA\/HEA pension plan has appointed Blair Richards as its chief investment officer.<\/p>\n<p>After more than 20 years as chief executive officer, he started the new role on July 1 and is under contract until Dec. 31, 2023. David Cranston, an internal hire, took over as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Richards began working on the Halifax waterfront more than&nbsp;40 years ago in 1979. He joined Local 1341 of the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association and is still a member today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/pensions\/other-pensions\/inspiration-blair-richards-on-pension-education-25404\"><strong>Inspiration: Blair Richards on pension education<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He worked on behalf of his local and the ILA in labour and industrial relations as an executive member for approximately 15 years. In 1992, he became the first chairman of a newly formed board of trustees responsible for pensions and benefits on a mandate between the employers\u2019 association and the union. He served in the chair position from inception in September 1992 until Dec. 31, 1999. On Jan. 1, 2000,&nbsp;he became chief executive officer of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Richard\u2019s new role as CIO, he\u2019s currently a director at the Workers\u2019 Compensation Board of Nova Scotia, a role he\u2019s held since May 30, 2019. He\u2019s also a board member and treasurer for a non-profit classical music organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/how-are-pension-plans-conducting-due-diligence-amid-physical-distancing-147488\">How are pension plans conducting due diligence amid physical distancing?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/blair-richards-moves-to-cio-of-halifax-port-ilahea-pension-plan-148007\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;July 14, 2020 The Halifax Port ILA\/HEA pension plan has appointed Blair Richards as its chief investment officer. After more than 20 years as chief executive officer, he started the new role on&#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\/18968"}],"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=18968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}