Explores issues in financing retirement, from fundamental changes in types of pension plans offered to pension funds' investment strategies following the global financial crisis. Focuses in particular on the adequacy of individuals' and institutions' plans in the face of increasing life...

This paper investigates the characteristics of US and Canadian pension funds that allocate assets to hedge funds. The typical pension fund that invests in hedge funds is a large sophisticated pension fund that diversifies its portfolio across numerous classes of investments, private equity in...

Professor Harry Arthurs recently served as the sole member of the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions. With the assistance of a number of Pension Advisors, he advanced 142 recommendations for reforming and reinvigorating Ontario’s occupational pension system. Some of the substantive pension...