Much attention in compensation strategy is focused on the corporate sector, and on how pension funds should exercise their say on pay responsibilities as investors in that sector. In contrast, little is been written on how pension funds should pay their own people. This article draws a number of...

On December 14, 2011, the Wall Street Journal carried an article titled “A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism” by former US Vice President Al Gore and his partner at Generation Investment Management, David Blood. The article signaled the launch of their white paper on sustainable...

For two days in June 2013 over 80 board members, senior executives and investment professionals from 40 pension organizations in 12 different countries gathered at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. The purpose was to examine and discuss five action steps investment...

Canadians successfully reformed the Canada/Quebec Pension Plans in the 1990s. Now we must do the same for the rest of our Retirement Income System. This paper offers both a vision and a plan to provide a decent post-work standard of living for the millions of Canadian workers currently...

As Ontario pushes ahead with pension reform to improve retirement security for its citizens, it should consider a “middle-way” solution between current competing visions for reform, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe institute. In “Helping Ontarians Save for Retirement:...

Traditional DB and DC pension plans have both become dysfunctional, as have attempts to “prove” that one is superior to the other. Far better that we should devote our energies to designing a new breed of pension plans, adapted to twenty-first-century realities. Such plans strike an...

Accused of changing his mind, the great economist John Maynard Keynes is said to have retorted, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?” In that spirit, the articles in this issue of the Journal challenge conventional pension design and management thinking in important ways