31 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Intelligence Memos
From: Barry Gros
To: Canada’s Pension Regulators
Date: March 23, 2022
Re: We Need to Align Regulation and Management of Target-Benefit Pension Plans
How should Canada regulate a target payment that is not guaranteed?
This question is seldom asked, let alone answered, when it comes to setting standards for regulating target-benefit pension plans (TBPs.)
Managing risk under…
Op-Ed
Earlier this month, the Alberta government launched a NAFTA investment arbitration suit against the United States, seeking $1.3-billion as compensation for President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. TC Energy, the company behind KXL, has filed its own NAFTA case, but Alberta is now seeking compensation for the province’s investment in the pipeline.
The case is…
Intelligence Memos
From: Lawrence Herman
To: Canadians Concerned About Trade
Date: February 25, 2022
Re: Alberta Breaks New Ground in its Keystone Appeal
Earlier this month, the Alberta government launched a NAFTA investment arbitration suit against the US, seeking $1.3 billion as compensation for President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. TC Energy, the company behind…
Intelligence Memos
From: Barry Gros
To: Canada’s Pension Regulators
Date: September 12, 2022
Re: Standards Hinder the Proper Management of Target Benefit Pension Plans
The majority of single-employer defined-benefit (DB) pension plans in the private sector have been either closed to future accruals, completely converted to defined-contribution plans or wound up. Their influence lingers, however…
Op-Ed
In the fall of 2020, barely noticed amid the stresses of COVID-19, Canada’s economy passed a peculiar milestone. Residential investment surpassed all other business investment — more than for nonresidential structures, machinery and equipment, and intellectual property products combined. That was unprecedented. As recently as the early 2000s, it would have been inconceivable. As a nation, we risk…
Intelligence Memos
From: Jeremy M. Kronick and William B.P. Robson
To: Business Leaders Concerned About Investment
Date: March 30, 2022
Re: House-Rich, Everything-Else-Poor
In the fall of 2020, barely noticed amid the stresses of COVID-19, Canada’s economy passed a peculiar milestone.
Residential investment surpassed all other business investment – more than for non-residential structures,…
