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Non-bank financial intermediation in Canada : an update

Bédard-Pagé, Guillaume - 2019

financial services. Unlike banking, it is not prudentially regulated. The Bank of Canada regularly monitors entities and …

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A primer on the Canadian bankers' acceptance market

McRae, Kaetlynd; Auger, Danny - 2018

This paper discusses how the bankers' acceptance (BA) market in Canada is organized and its essential link to the … Canada, BAs provide a key source of funding for small and medium-sized corporate borrowers that may not otherwise have direct … issued by non-government entities and are the second-largest money market instrument overall in Canada, averaging just over …

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Helping Ontarians Save for Retirement: How the Province Could Adapt the Canada Supplementary Pension Plan

Ambachtsheer, Keith - C. D. Howe Institute

institute. In “Helping Ontarians Save for Retirement: How the Province Could Adapt the Canada Supplementary Pension Plan … Canada Pension Plan (CPP) on one hand, or reliance on Pooled Registered Pensions Plans (PRPPs), on the other. …

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Target- Benefit Plans in Canada – An Innovation Worth Expanding

Jana Steele Author- Workplace-Name: Goodmans LLP; Mel … - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2014) 411

The limitations inherent in the traditional pension models – defined contribution (DC) and defined benefit (DB) – are facing increased scrutiny and new models are developing in response to these pressures. Due to extremely low interest rates and the volatility of equity markets, over the...

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Target Benefit Plans: Improving Access for Federally Regulated Employees

Bauslaugh, Randy - C. D. Howe Institute - 2014

Despite having been available for decades, target benefit pension plans (TBPs) will continue to be resisted by federally regulated employers unless a legal flaw is fixed, according to a report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Target Benefit Plans: Improving Access for Federally Regulated...

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Safe Harbours: Providing Protection for Canada's Money-Purchase Plan Sponsors

Robson, William B.P. - In: C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder (2008) 110

Fear of lawsuits may inhibit employers from steering employees into defined-contribution pension plans and RRSPs, and from guiding them into sensible choices for investing and withdrawing their money. Safe-harbour provisions that reduced this threat would help employers act in good faith to...

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Greener Pastures: Understanding the Impact of Retirement Incentives in Defined-benefit Pension Plans

Schirle, Tammy - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2008) 262

Provisions in defined-benefit pension plans may bring down employment rates among older workers — a concern for employers, and for policymakers projecting the impact of babyboomers’ mass retirement from the labour force.

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Outliving Our Savings: Registered Retirement Income Funds Rules Need a Big Update

Robson, William; Laurin, Alex - C. D. Howe Institute

Many retirees face dramatic erosion of their savings due to outdated government rules, says a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Outliving Our Savings: Registered Retirement Income Funds Rules Need a Big Update,” authors Alexandre Laurin and William Robson urge the government to re-visit...

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The Taxation of Single-Employer Target Benefit Plans – Where We Are and Where We Ought To Be

Steele, Jana R.; Gros, Barry; Hall, Karen J.; McSweeney, Ian - C. D. Howe Institute - 2015

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Ottawa's Pension Gap: The Growing and Under-reported Cost of Federal Employee Pensions

Laurin, Alexandre; Robson, William B.P. - C. D. Howe Institute - 2011

Canadian public-sector pension plans typically do not use market yields to calculate their liabilities: if they did, Ottawa’s unfunded pension liability would stand at $227 billion – some $80 billion larger than reported in the Public Accounts. The value of the typical federal employee’s...

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