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CPP is not ‘low cost’
Appeared in the Toronto Sun, February 8, 2016 A recent meeting of Canada’s finance ministers rightly put the brakes on the federal government’s proposal to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). After all, the evidence shows such reform is unnecessary and ...
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Comparing the Costs of the Canada Pension Plan with Public Pension Plans in Ontario
Proponents of the CPP and those who argue for its expansion often claim it has low costs and economies of scale, whereby the ratio of costs to assets declines as the value of assets under management grows. This paper examines that claim by comparing the ...
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Ontario Pension Plan based on faulty assumptions
Appeared in the National Post The Ontario government's proposal to supplement the Canada Pension Plan with its own compulsory pension plan is based on a series of faulty assumptions. A fundamental but unproven assumption is that people are not saving ...
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Evaluating the Proposed Ontario Pension Plan
The Ontario government has proposed its own supplement to the CPP in an attempt to force more saving. In reality, Ontarians typically have an above-average saving rate, double that of the rest of Canada as recently as 2009. Saving in Ontario returned to ...