Today’s labour market favours sellers, not buyers.  You need an edge to get the talent you need in the increasingly fierce competition for skilled employees.  Offering a pension plan can help, but how do you do that without taking on the costs, risk, and work of pension management? In this session, attendees will learn about a new way to offer pension programs and whether it may be the right fit for their workplaces.

Who should attend?

• Executive and senior-level HR professionals
• Executive and senior-level finance staff including CFOs and VPs
• General and senior legal counsel with responsibility for labour, employment and pension matters
• Group retirement / pension plan administrative staff
• Business owners
• HR generalists and communications personnel

Speaker

James Pierlot

Chief Executive

Blue Pier

James Pierlot is the founder and Chief Executive officer of Blue Pier™, the registered trade name of Canada’s first and only Pension-Plan-as-a-Service, an innovative, institutional-class group pension solution available to public- and private-sector employers from coast to coast to coast . With 25 years of public and private sector experience in the regulation, governance and delivery of workplace retirement plans, James has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Chicago Actuarial Foundation’s John Hanson Award for his peer-reviewed publications on pension policy and advocacy for better retirement-income and benefit security, including bills presented to both Chambers of Parliament. Fluent in English and French, James holds degrees in Taxation Law (Osgoode Hall), Droit Civil (Université de Montréal), Droit international et Communautaire (Université d’Aix-Marseille III), Common Law (Osgoode Hall) and History (University of Western Ontario). He is a member of the C.D. Howe Institute Pension Policy Council, serves on advisory committees of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario and chaired the Financial Services Commission of Ontario Legal Advisory Committee.