By Ben Carpenter
Director of Talent Acquisition, Common Wealth Retirement
In 2016 Anxiety Canada wrote about the importance of financial wellness, citing research that stated 47% of Canadians felt the workplace was their largest share of daily stress with the leading factor being workload. While the need to get work…
By Alex Mazer
Co-founder and Co-CEO, Common Wealth Retirement
The sequence in which to introduce employee benefits is one of the most important questions for HR leaders to consider in a growing organization. …
Don’t let the bank make more from your money than you do
By Ben Carpenter
Director of Talent Acquisition, Common Wealth Retirement
What wisdom, you ask? The foresight to save a little money each month in a way that didn’t (noticeably) cost me anything, when I was busy living life as a carefree millennial. …
By Jim Keohane, Alex Mazer & Jonathan Weisstub
Jim Keohane recently retired from the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), where he served for 20 years as CEO and, before that, Chief Investment Officer. Under Jim’s leadership, HOOPP delivered the highest ten-year returns among global pension fund peers. …
What happens to group retirement plans after employees leave?
In choosing or managing a workplace retirement plan, one question that employers should be asking is what happens to employees after they leave or retire.
For most Group RRSPs and TFSAs provided by big insurers and banks in Canada, the answer is former employees get moved into an individual product…
Last month, Common Wealth marked its fifth anniversary. We thought this would be a good time to reflect on the past five years and share some of what we’ve learned about tackling the retirement security challenge through a mission-driven, entrepreneurial company.
We started the business not with a product in…
Ideas for protecting and strengthening household financial security
Acknowledgement: This brief emerged from a conversation, held in late March 2020, among a number of individuals and organizations who work on issues of household financial security. It is written by Alex Mazer and Jonathan Weisstub, cofounders of Common Wealth, with the support of their colleagues, but also incorporates insights…
