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The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan is promoting Sabeen Purewall (pictured left) to vice-president of solutions and partnerships and Graham Stone (pictured right) to acting vice-president of pension solutions, effective Feb. 22, 2024. In their new roles, Purewall will oversee strategic partnerships to help organizations with talent attraction and retention tactics, while […]

Province to also roll out benefits for all employees in sector

News releases from the Government of Nova Scotia

Boyd, Marilyn D. (nee Meagher), 76, of Marlborough, Mass, passed away on Saturday, November 25, 2023, at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, MA after a long battle with lung disease.

The Canadian Public Pension Leadership Council is appointing Karen McKeown, director of board operations at the B.C. Pension Corp., as co-chair. McKeown will share responsibilities with Alison McKay, chief executive officer of the Saskatchewan Healthcare Employees Pension Plan, and succeeds Derek Dobson, CEO and plan manager at the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension […]

A new survey shows Canadians anticipate working an average of six years longer than they would like

A new survey shows Canadians anticipate working an average of six years longer than they would like

Defined benefit. Defined contribution. Target benefit. Shared risk. Collective. Multi-employer. Pooled. Canada’s pension and retirement landscape is littered with lingo that can often be confusing for the people who participate in these plans and count on them for their retirement income. As pension plans evolve and the terms describing them expand, does the industry have […]

The College of Family Physicians of Canada pension plan is joining the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan’s DBplus. “As a result of merging our plan with CAAT, we will be able to provide all of our employees with a defined benefit pension for life with a number of features including inflation protection […]

Employees of the City of Whitehorse represented by the Yukon Employees’ Union and N.W.T.-based Collège nordique francophone are joining the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan’s DBplus arrangement. The two employers are among a number of organizations that have recently joined the CAAT’s plan, including the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, the Saskatchewan College […]