Newsletter ⮞ February 22, 2022
How Nest UK is Engaging Members
The Canadian Leadership Congress hosted its inaugural DC Plan Experience in Toronto on February 9th. The focus of the day was plan members and their needs, from understanding what their pain points and challenges are to innovative new ways to help them through to retirement. To help us out with the discussion, we invited Will Sandbrook, managing director of Nest Insight, the research arm of the UK government’s workplace pension plan Nest. He focused on his experience with engaging plan members, including his perspective on what works and what doesn’t.
Key observations from his session
How America is adapting to supply chain chaos
On the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, where the remains of a 200-year-old canal built to connect Cleveland with Cincinnati snake around new warehouse parks, a modern tributary of the global economy widens a little more with each planeload of goods that roars down its runways. Rickenbacker International Airport was a bustling hub for air freight well before the pandemic — a day’s truck drive to half of the U.S. population, so the slogan goes. In the past two years, another role emerged: economic relief valve for auto parts, consumer products, and pharmaceuticals to flow around the more prominent but clogged arteries of U.S. trade.
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The looming threat of long financial COVID
Economic activity contracted in 90 per cent of the world’s countries in 2020. This exceeded the proportion hit by the two world wars, the Great Depression and the global financial crisis. A pandemic, we now know, is a comprehensive disaster. It also bequeaths ill health and social and economic disruption. Among the most long-lasting legacies could be financial ones, especially in emerging and developing countries. The spectre of a lost decade looms for vulnerable nations.
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Canadian home price gains accelerate again in January, climbing 1.3%
Canadian home price gains accelerated again in January, climbing 1.3% from December, on rises in nine of the 11 major markets, data showed last week. The Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index, which tracks repeat sales of single-family homes in major Canadian markets, had climbed 0.8% in December from November. January’s jump was driven by Hamilton, Ontario, and Toronto, up 2.1% and 1.9% respectively on the month. On an annual basis, the index rose by 16.6%, up from 15.5% last month. Halifax, Nova Scotia led the way with a 31.7% year-over-year gain, while Hamilton registered a 25.5% gain. All 11 major cities posted gains on the year.
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The Challenge of Change Forum 2022’s Registration Coming!
Thank you to our confirmed asset manager partners for the 2022 Challenge of Change Forum, taking place at the Fox Harb'r Resort in Wallace, #NovaScotia from June 1-3. Registration for senior decision-makers at Canadian DB pension funds will open soon.
If you are interested and want to know if you are eligible, contact Co-CEO and Founder, Joanne Boccia.
If you are interested and want to know if you are eligible, contact Co-CEO and Founder, Joanne Boccia.
Join us!
Announcing Challenge of Change Forum Keynote, Gordon Fyfe
The Canadian Leadership Congress is looking forward to welcoming Gordon Fyfe, CEO/CIO at BCI, as our keynote at the upcoming Challenge of Change Forum, where he will be speaking about The Future of Canada's Economy on the Global Stage.
Are you interested in speaking at an upcoming #CLC event? Send us an email and we’d be happy to chat further!
Are you interested in speaking at an upcoming #CLC event? Send us an email and we’d be happy to chat further!
Contact the CLC today!
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