Alberta requires amendments and other documents to be filed online
Oct 23, 2020On September 30, 2020, the Alberta Superintendent of Pensions (the Superintendent) published EPPA Update 20-06, which describes revisions to its online filing system.
Highlights of Morneau Shepell’s Annual Salary Projection Survey for 2021
Oct 23, 2020Morneau Shepell recently released the results of its 38th annual survey on salary projections for 2021 (the Survey).
2020 Survey – Economic assumptions in accounting for pension and other post‑retirement benefits
Oct 23, 2020Morneau Shepell issued its 20th annual survey on the economic assumptions used by Canadian public companies to account for the costs of their defined benefit plans.
Ontario offers conditional deferral of defined benefit employer contributions
Oct 23, 2020On September 21, 2020, the Ontario government filed O. Reg. 520/20, amending Ontario Regulation 909 under the Pension Benefits Act.
Morneau Shepell’s Pension Risk Bulletin looks at benefit security
Oct 23, 2020Morneau Shepell publishes a periodic Pension Risk Bulletin to provide updates and views on pension risk transfer and risk management to defined benefit (DB) pension plan sponsors in Canada.
FSRA releases draft supervisory approach to asset transfer applications
Oct 23, 2020The FSRA published a draft of its new guidance document on asset transfer applications, Approach No. PE0205APP – Supervisory Approach to Asset Transfers Under the Pension Benefits Act (the Supervisory Approach).
Tracking the funded status of pension plans as at September 30, 2020
Oct 23, 2020The evolution of the financial situation of pension plans since December 31, 2019
Update: Ontario extends the COVID-19 deemed leave of absence period
Oct 23, 2020On September 3, 2020, the Government of Ontario filed a regulation extending until January 2, 2021 the job-protected Infectious Disease Emergency Leave that was originally scheduled to end on September 4, 2020.
Impact on pension expense under international accounting as at September 30, 2020
Oct 23, 2020Every year, companies must establish an expense for their defined benefit pension plans.
2020 Economic assumptions in accounting for pension and other post‑retirement benefits
Sep 28, 2020Morneau Shepell is pleased to provide a survey of the assumptions used by around 90 Canadian public companies to account for the costs of their defined benefit plans.