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Bill Anderson, Chairman of Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX: SLF) (NYSE: SLF), announced today that Sun Life President and Chief Executive Officer, Dean Connor intends to retire August 6, 2021.

Kevin Strain, currently Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, will be appointed as President and a member of the Sun Life Board of Directors effective February 15, 2021. He will assume the Chief Executive Officer role upon Mr. Connor's retirement. Mr. Connor will also retire from the Sun Life Board of Directors in accordance with company policy.

Friday, December 4, 2020

2020 FCPA Inductees

By Patty Mah听
2020 CPA Ontario's list of FCPA Inductees

The Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPA Ontario) celebrated the appointments of those named to CPA Fellowship. Among the 50 newly named FCPAs, were 8 SAF alumni and Dave Vert, retired faculty member of 蓝莓视频鈥檚 School of Accounting and Finance (SAF).

Mike focuses on financial literacy month. First, Judith Robertson, Commissioner of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, speaks about what her organization does and what they鈥檙e focusing on during financial literacy month. Then Tracy Hilpert, a Lecturer of Managerial Accounting with the University of 蓝莓视频鈥檚 School of Accounting and Finance and the Director of the department鈥檚 Financial Literacy Competition joins to explain how their competition teaches financial literacy to high school students and how classes can get involved.

Tony Wirjanto, a curator for Insurance and Asset Management for the World Economic Forum and professor at the School of Accounting and Finance, takes us through how COVID-19 has affected the insurance industry, and what can be done about it.

Friday, November 6, 2020

Insuring a global pandemic

The repercussions of COVID-19 and worsening climate change are among the issues that will impact the insurance industry, according to Tony Wirjanto, University of 蓝莓视频 professor.

Wirjanto, working as a curator in Insurance and Asset Management for the World Economic Forum (WEF), identified eight key issues poised to influence the insurance industry in the recently released .

Canada鈥檚 Top 40 Under 40 is a dynamic awards program that identifies outstanding young achievers in Canadian business, visionaries and innovators changing the way things are done. They are inspiring others and already giving back to their communities and to Canada. And every one of them is under the age of forty.

Welcome to our second annual ranking of Canada鈥檚 Top Growing Companies. The 400 businesses on this list sprawl across sectors, from fashion to finance, and manufacture everything from medical testing devices to organic pasta.

Much of the success celebrated in these pages occurred before a global pandemic changed how most companies operate. But as you will read, many of these businesses were able to adapt, innovate and even expand despite the challenges posed by these past few months.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Assessing the CRA

Authors Kenneth Klassen (pictured) and Nick Pantaleo explore the pressure on the CRA to raise more tax revenues, as well as assess the efficiency of the audit process and the fairness of results.

Incentives to increase assessments were amplified by recent funding for the CRA that carries an expectation that additional tax revenues of $5 will be collected for each $1 spent, a 鈥渞eturn鈥 that is much higher than in the past. As well, these additional tax revenues are explicitly linked to closing the 鈥渢ax gap,鈥 the CRA鈥檚 measure of 听how much tax revenue theoretically exists versus how much is actually paid voluntarily.