The Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) is encouraged by the release of report by the Nova Scotia Pension Review Panel regarding pension reform in the province.

“Chair Bill Black, together with fellow panellists Ronald Pink and Dick Crawford, are to be commended for their tireless efforts addressing the difficult issues affecting the pension systems in Nova Scotia”, says Scott Perkin, president of the ACPM. “We encourage the government in Nova Scotia to initiate further discussions with stakeholders in order to advance joint pension reform in the province”.

ACPM has been very committed to this review process, having made both written and verbal submissions, providing the Panel with its perspectives on pension reform.

As was the case with the recent release of a similar pension Report by the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions (OECP) and that of the Joint Expert Panel on Pension Standards (JEPPS) in Alberta and British Columbia, ACPM will now be reviewing the content of the Nova Scotia Report with equal interest over the coming days, the association says.

ACPM’s individual members and institutional members are drawn from all of the various industry sectors. They represent approximately 3 million plan members of more than 300 pension plans with total assets in excess of $300 billion.

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