Is the Trudeau government getting ready to raid your pension fund?
That's the fear of pension fund managers
That's the fear of pension fund managers
When it comes to how and how much workers should save for retirement, the federal government doesn’t know better than Canadians themselves
Can you afford to hold off and increase your payments later? Will you need more CPP and OAS later in life? And how long do you expect to live?
Never mind that reducing the choices available to a fund manager can result in negative consequences for pensioners
‘Governments haven’t always done a great job of understanding the reality of running a small business’
Franklin Templeton survey also says 22% of self-employed Canadians never intend to retire
Alberta paid $27.9 billion more into the Canada Pension Plan than what they received in CPP payments over the past 10 years.
But much of the justification for expanding the pension plan is debatable or downright wrong
When the government makes employment more expensive, the sure result is fewer jobs
Governments around the world will go into the next recession with fewer economic management tools at their disposal
To have effective policies, we need clear, understandable indicators for the most important dimensions of poverty
More than 6.2 million Canadian workers belonged to employer-sponsored pension plans in the first quarter of this year: StatsCan
But a new RBC Investor and Treasury Services report cautions that trade friction could impact the market