Common Wealth wins international technology innovation award
Common Wealth is bringing home the Pensions & Investments WorldPensionSummit Award for Technology Innovations.
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Common Wealth retirement plans now integrate with Intuit QuickBooks Payroll
Common Wealth, Canada’s first low-fee digital retirement plan for life, has joined the Intuit Developer platform …
Common Wealth adds DPSPs to its suite
Common Wealth, Canada’s first low-fee, group retirement platform that supports plan members for life, announced today the launch of Deferred Profit Sharing Plans …
Common Wealth launches Canada’s first digital retirement plan for life
Common Wealth has launched a technology-enabled retirement savings and planning platform designed to give all Canadian employers access …
Once-in-a-generation chance to build household savings
While the story for the past decade or more has been one of undersaving and overborrowing, Canadians saved a huge amount last year. The national household savings rate, which normally hovers between 2 per cent and 3 per cent, jumped to 27.5 per cent from April to June of 2020. It remained high in the …
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We Won Two Innovation Awards!
We’re delighted and honoured to announce that we’ve won the P&I WorldPensionSummit Innovation Award in Plan Design! The Advantages Retirement Plan™ has received top industry nods nationally and internationally, a testament to the innovative program we’ve created in partnership with the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and OMA Insurance. We collaborated with the OMA for …
The pandemic exposed the precarious economic situations of many families
So much of the effort to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19 has been to protect some of those most at risk – people with underlying conditions. So it is appropriate that this unprecedented effort – shutting down whole swaths of the economy to combat the virus – has exposed other “underlying conditions” that threaten the …
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COVID-19 is wake-up call for governments on household finances
COVID-19 is not only a public health crisis. It is a crisis of household financial security. The vast economic dislocation resulting from the virus is causing very real pain and fear among Canadian families. Even before the crisis hit, Canadians were deeply concerned about their household finances. Affordability, retirement savings, and economic insecurity have ranked among …
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Wanted: portable benefits for the new world of work
Canada’s economy is doing well, our unemployment rate is at its lowest level in decades, and the average net worth of Canadians is increasing. Work today looks very different from how it looked 125 years ago, when Labour Day was established. While we celebrate the progress working people have made, we should also be thinking …
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Building economic security through work and wealth
Reflections on the Aspen Institute’s Economic Security Summit Last week, I had the good fortune and honour to participate in the Aspen Institute’s Economic Security Summit, a four-day gathering of 40 leaders from the private, public, and third sectors who are focused on expanding prosperity in America. This year’s Summit aimed to “reconnect work and wealth” — to link …
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