It will take political courage to improve Canada’s health care system I spent my life teaching actuarial science at a university. As a result, I calculated lots of numbers: averages, expected values, variances. But, they were only numbers. What I didn’t see was the individual human story behind each calculation. But now that I am
Robert Brown
Pros and Cons of an Expanded Canada Pension Plan

Governments would be wise to remember making changes to the CPP is a very complex issue A new report came out recently that reiterates what we’ve heard from other sources: Canadians aren’t saving nearly enough for retirement. The Deputy Chief Economist of the CIBC warns that, without pension reform now, younger workers today will see
Government on Right Track With Target Benefit Pension Plans

By sharing some risks, workers can achieve higher investment returns By Robert Brown In a speech in Toronto recently, Kevin Sorensen, Minister of State for Finance, introduced details of a new “hybrid” pension plan proposed for all federal workers and other corporations under federal pension regulation. He referred to these proposed plans as Target Benefit