{"id":3399,"date":"2018-04-03T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=28eaee508e208312d51487fbe10380c7"},"modified":"2018-04-03T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:09:43","slug":"ontario-teacherss-pension-plan-earns-9-7-in-2017-fully-funded-for-fifth-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/ontario-teacherss-pension-plan-earns-9-7-in-2017-fully-funded-for-fifth-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Teachers\u2019s Pension Plan earns 9.7% in 2017, fully funded for fifth year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Ontario Teachers&#8217; Pension Plan says it earned a total return of 9.7 per cent last year, bringing its net assets to $189.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The plan said it was 105 per cent funded as of Jan. 1 &#8212; the fifth year in a row that it has been fully funded.<\/p>\n<p>The returns for the year topped the fund&#8217;s benchmark of 8.2 per cent for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Investment returns provide more than three-quarters of the plan&#8217;s funding, with the remainder provided by the Ontario government and contributions of working plan members.<\/p>\n<p>The pension fund reported annualized five-year total net returns of 9.6 per cent and annualized 10-year total net returns of 7.6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The OTPP serves Ontario&#8217;s 323,000 active and retired teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &mdash; Ontario Teachers&rsquo; Pension Plan says it earned a total return of 9.7 per cent last year, bringing its net assets to $189.5 billion. The plan said it was 105 per cent funded as of Jan. 1 &mdash; the fifth year in a row that it has been fully funded. The returns for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"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\/3399"}],"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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}