{"id":19782,"date":"2020-10-06T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/hub-acquiring-edmonton-based-retirement-benefits-firm-150713"},"modified":"2020-10-06T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:15:05","slug":"hub-acquiring-edmonton-based-retirement-benefits-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/10\/06\/hub-acquiring-edmonton-based-retirement-benefits-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hub acquiring Edmonton-based retirement, benefits firm"},"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\/2012\/03\/acquisition-text-e1520434108318.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Hub acquiring Edmonton-based retirement, benefits firm\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 6, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Hub International Ltd. is acquiring Clearpoint Benefits Solutions, which includes Clearpoint Advisory Group Inc.,&nbsp;Clearpoint Retirement Solutions Inc. and Canwest Group Benefits Inc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Clearpoint, which is located in Edmonton, with additional locations in Grande Prairie, Alta. and Fairview, Alta., is a benefits and retirement consulting firm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/hub-international-acquires-assets-of-toronto-based-benefits-firm-125988\">Hub International acquires assets of Toronto-based benefits firm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearpoint is a great addition to our employee benefits and retirement team,\u201d said&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">David Moon<\/span>, president and&nbsp;chief executive officer of Hub International Canada West, in a press release. \u201cTheir experience and depth of expertise will complement our existing capabilities, expand our services and drive continued growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The principals of Clearpoint \u2014&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Darren Smith<\/span>,&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Sid Swick<\/span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Jim Yih \u2014<\/span>&nbsp;will join Hub Canada West. \u201cHub\u2019s dedicated commitment to employee benefits and retirement solutions fits well with our mission,\u201d said Smith. \u201cWe are keen to help continue to grow the practice and to provide clients with genuinely unique and tailored services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/hub-acquiring-edmonton-based-retirement-benefits-firm-150713\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;October 6, 2020 Hub International Ltd. is acquiring Clearpoint Benefits Solutions, which includes Clearpoint Advisory Group Inc.,&nbsp;Clearpoint Retirement Solutions Inc. and Canwest Group Benefits Inc.&nbsp; Clearpoint, which is located in Edmonton, with additional&#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\/19782"}],"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=19782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}