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Indeed, Canadian plan sponsors have been able to invest in foreign currency bond issues of Canadian issuers for many years.

Most Canadian plan sponsors went through the process of selecting international managers in the 1990s as the FPR moved up to 30 % and they largely chose foreign investment managers.

This means that Canadian plan sponsors will likely leave the headache of hedging to the swap banks.

As we explained above, Canadian plan sponsors have traditionally restricted their managers to investment grade bonds, particularly rated A or higher.

Not exact matches

Seeking Certainty in Uncertain Times: A review of recent government - sponsored studies into the regulation of Canadian pension plans.

The evidence shows that, left to their own devices, many Canadians are just not saving enough to secure a decent retirement, and certainly not enough to make up for the sharp decline of compulsory saving though traditional employer sponsored pension plans.

Few Canadians outside the public sector enjoy good defined benefit pensions anymore, but many will by then have significant amounts in more modest employer - sponsored plans, or RRSPs and TFSAs.

Given that a shrinking number of Canadians have employer - sponsored pension plans, RRSPs will provide thefoundation for many people's retirement savings.

National Investment Roundtable Straight talk on the issues that concern Canadian defined benefit pension plan sponsors Spring 2016

This government sponsored financial planning program allows Canadian residents to contribute 18 % of their previous years earned income into a tax sheltered retirement account.

Although they might restrict foreign currency and interest rate exposure, Canadian retirement and pension plan sponsors no longer will require their bond managers to restrict their portfolios to Canadian issuers.

Dropping interest rates and rising liability values in the late 1990s now have pension plan sponsors considering raising their fixed income weightings to «match» their liabilities which are valued entirely in Canadian currency and interest rates.

While it might have seemed unreasonable for plan sponsors to limit exposure to the Canadian bank sector under the FPR, it might now seem a bit quaint not to limit this exposure.

The consensus strong returns forecast for foreign equity markets, their Canadian liabilities and the good historical returns from Canadian fixed investments caused plan sponsors to substitute foreign for Canadian equities as the FPL increased from 10 % to 30 %.

Based on their heavy exposures to recent «Made in Canada» disasters like Laidlaw, Loewen, Bre - X and Nortel, which formed a significant part of the Canadian equity universe, pension plan sponsors clearly understand the benefits of global equity diversification.

So as the use of employer - sponsored pension plans has fallen over the last 50 years, Canadians have made up for it by increasing savings in RRSPs and TFSAs as well as by prioritizing owning their own home, which brings tax free benefits as the equity in their principal residence grows.

They said, however that there is no indication the plans, which police described as the first known al Qaeda - backed plot on Canadian soil, were state - sponsored.

Clio Godkewitsch will talk about pension governance at the Canadian Legal and Legislative Update, sponsored by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

Lawyers Financial products and plans are sponsored by The Canadian Bar Insurance Association (CBIA).

Unfortunately, few Canadians have access to union - or employer - sponsored benefit plans as generous as Unifor's.

As I said in the before post, this wasn't something we had planned out for months, it was more impromptu after we chatted with a few of our amazing sponsors HomeSense and Canadian Tire Premier Paint.