Social Policy for the Next Generations: Designing Resilient Pension Policy for a Changing Social and Economic Landscape
January 28, 2015 | By Public Policy Admin |
This year, the annual SPPG Policy Institute will bring pension experts from Canada and abroad share their insights on pension reform proposals in Canada.
Proposals for pension reform in Canada are addressed to two inter-related sets of problems: those resulting from changes in the workplace landscape, including the decline in coverage of employer-based pensions; and those related to “under-saving:” the concern that many members of the workforce – and in particular those in the middle-income range, without an employer-based pension and currently in their late 30s and 40s, are not saving enough to avoid a dramatic drop in their standard of living upon retirement. What do we know about the long-term trends underlying these problems? What can we learn from the experience of other nations? How can we design a pension framework resilient enough to address the changing needs of successive generations?
Below you will find links to the speaker’s presentations where available.
Agenda
Session 1 – Understanding the Problem: Trends in Canadian Household Debt, Savings, and Pension Coverage
Lead Remarks by:
• Kevin Milligan, Employment and Mortality of Older Canadians: Implications for Pensions, Associate Professor of Economics in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia
• Michael Wolfson, Thoughts on the Future Adequacy of Canadian Retirement Incomes, Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling/Populomics at the University of Ottawa
• Moderated by: Chaviva Hosek, Professor at SPPG, UofT
Session 2 – International Overview: Designing Resilient Frameworks and Trends and Lessons
Lead Remarks by:
• Hervé Boulhol, Senior Economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Revisiting Pension Privatization in Europe, Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Mannheim
• Moderated by: Tony Dean, Professor at SPPG, UofT
Lunch Remarks
• Keith Ambachtsheer, Designing Resilient Pension Policy,Director Emeritus of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM)
Session 3 – Challenges to Pension Sustainability: Lessons from Abroad
Lead Remarks by:
• Frank Vandenbroucke, Pension reform as ‘defined ambition’, Professor, KU Leuven
• Bart van Riel, Reforming Dutch sector wide pensions plans, Senior Policy Officer, Directorate of Economic Affairs, Netherlands Social and Economic Council
• Moderated by: Ito Peng, Professor at SPPG, Uof
Session 4 – Emerging Issues and Design Questions for the Canadian Context
Lead Remarks by:
• Bob Baldwin, Emerging Issues and Design Questions for the Canadian Context, Consultant and Pension Specialist
• Francis Fong, Senior Economist at TD Bank Group
• Moderated by: Carolyn Tuohy, Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus at SPPG, UofT
Keynote Event
• Opening remarks: The Honourable Mitzie Hunter, Associate Minister of Finance in the Ontario Government
• Keynote: David Dodge, Senior Advisor at Bennett Jones LLP and former Governor of the Bank of Canada
This event is made possible by the support of TD Bank and the David Peterson Program in Public Sector Leadership.
Event Date
January 28, 2015
8:00am to 8:00pm
Location
UofT Faculty Club
41 Willcocks St
