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Couche-Tard shares hit new high on strong Q2 earnings + MORE Nov 27th

Quebec convenience store company Alimentation Couche-Tard saw its shares climb to a new high of $77 Cdn on Tuesday after issuing a strong second-quarter earnings report..... More »
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PM hopes to attract billions in private capital for infrastructure projects + MORE Nov 14th

TORONTO – Justin Trudeau and nine members of his cabinet are in Toronto today to meet with some of the world’s most powerful institutional investors with trillions of dollars at their disposal. The prime minister is hoping to persuade some two dozen representatives of large international.... More »
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Myths and facts of reverse mortgages + MORE Sep 30th

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This GIC rate is offered by Outlook Financial and was updated on 2013-03-14. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.

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CPP investment board earns 1.1% in first quarterThe Canada Pension Plan Investment Board said Friday it earned a return of 1.1 per cent for the first quarter of its current financial year.

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The Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) recently modified their pensioner mortality tables to reflect the longer lives of Canadians (see chart below).

Sex
Years to life at Age 60
Years gained

Male
27.3
2.9

Female
29.4
2.7

The update enables pension plan sponsors to better calculate their financial promises to those eligible to receive a pension (or a survivor’s benefit).  Companies with defined-benefit pension (DB) plans, which are guaranteed to their members, need to assess if funding modifications are needed based on these new longevity assumptions to ensure they can meet their pension promises.
Defined-benefit pension plans and your health
Let me be brutally honest on this one…the DB pension plan only cares if you are alive or dead. No other pension plan needs to consider your life expectancy because you hold all the risk—more on this later. Even so, with DB plans there are two degrees of being dead—survivor benefits or none. Your health is not an issue for a DB plan…

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BlackBerry, Magna, Canadian Tire and Brookfield Asset Management are among the stocks we’re watching Friday.

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Prosecutors allow money management business to operate; firm must maintain 85 per cent of its assets

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