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  1. Myth—the CPP is a low-cost pension plan

    As the debate about the Canada Pension Plan persists, with finance minsters meeting next week in Vancouver to discuss possible CPP expansion, a misleading argument made in favour of expansion is that the CPP is a low-cost public pension ...

  2. Responding to critics of 'retirement income' and 'CPP' studies

    Since 2013, the Fraser Institute has published a number of studies examining aspects of the state of retirement income in Canada, including reforms to the Old Age Security, the true state of retirement income adequacy, the total costs ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Accounting for the True Cost of the Canada Pension Plan

    The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board reported its operating expenses as $490 million in fiscal 2012–13, or 0.28% of its assets, up from 0.11% six years earlier, touting this as a measure of its efficiency and low costs. However, this definition of ...