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The ABC’s of Target Benefit Plans – Part II

This is my second blog post in a series regarding target benefit plans (TBPs) (for Part I, which provides a general overview of TBPs, see my March 10, 2014 post). In this post I will focus on New...

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Ontario Government Committed to Improving Pensions Through Extensive and...

By:  Jana Steele, Paul Litner and Lesha VanDerBij The 21st century workforce needs a modern retirement income system, but Ontario and Canada have a 20th century system in place. That is why Ontario is...

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Quebec Proposes Reforms to Municipal Defined Benefit Pension Plans

On June 12th, the Quebec government introduced Bill 3 – An Act to Foster the Financial Health and Sustainability of Municipal Defined Benefit Pension Plans in Quebec (Bill 3). Bill 3 replaces Bill 79 –...

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Alberta Solvency Reserve Accounts: An Answer to Trapped Capital?

Defined benefit plan sponsors in Alberta (and soon British Columbia) should carefully consider taking advantage of recent (and forthcoming) legislation in those provinces permitting them to establish...

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Pension Holiday Wish List

As policy makers across the country implement pension reform and address priorities, we wanted to highlight a few of the recent reforms impacting private sector registered pension plans that, in our...

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Solvency Reserve Accounts – Further Considerations for Alberta and BC Plans...

Last month Alberta Interpretive Guideline #07 dealing with Solvency Reserve Accounts (SRAs) was finalized.  A draft of the Guideline had been released last November for industry/stakeholder comment. In...

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Solvency Reserve Accounts – Further Considerations for Alberta and BC Plans...

In Part I of this series, we considered issues related to setting up a solvency reserve account (SRA) for an Alberta (and eventually British Columbia) defined benefit plan, SRA withdrawals and...

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Quebec Proposes Pension Funding Reform for Private Sector Plans

Following the release of the D’Amours Report in 2013, which provided recommendations on how to improve  Quebec’s retirement income system, the Quebec government was widely expected to  reform the...

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Solvency Reserve Accounts (Part III) – “Oh and One More Thing…Payment of...

In our previous two articles in this series (Part I and Part II), we considered issues related to setting up an Alberta (and eventually BC) defined benefit plan solvency reserve account (SRA) and...

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Rethinking Plan Design & Funding: Pension Innovation in Canada

Pension plan design possibilities are evolving in various jurisdictions across the country. This is happening at a time when many plan sponsors have been considering pension risk management and...

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