Tag: Canada Pension Plan
The brief’s key findings are: Investing part of Social Security’s reserves in equities has obvious appeal: a higher return means less tax hikes or benefit cuts. But critics fear that equity investment could interfere with private markets or signal that trading bonds for stocks creates magic money. The evidence from the U.S. and Canada shows that suc…
Canada goes for a national rather than a province-by-province solution to inadequate pensions. In Canada, like the United States, more than half the private sector workforce does not have access to a well-designed, cost-effective retirement savings plan. In Canada, the province of Ontario was in the process of responding to the coverage gap with t…
