Pensions, Retirement and Old Age

Age Canada Old Pension By Peter Shout

The Canadian dollar charged higher on Friday as a strong domestic jobs report showed the economy hanging in despite turmoil in the U.S. housing sector and financial market disruption.

Funds Pension (SP) Toronto - The Canadian dollar rose to 90 cents against the US dollar Tuesday, reaching a 28-year high for the Loonie and increasing the buying power for the nation,but Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty says it will hurt Alberta's oil industry and Ontario's manufacturing sector more.

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Hancock John Pension The Loonie closed at 90.38 cents US, up 0.55 cents from Monday's close and its highest level since June 1978. In early trading, the Loonie reached a high of 90.42 cents US before retreating. Much of that upward pressure was due to higher oil and gold prices, two commodities Canada is rich in.

In a special supplement published at the start of the new year, the 'Financial Times' reported the findings of a global study on pensions which showed that, in the last year alone, an estimated $1, 400 billion (that's one thousand, four hundred billion dollars) had been wiped off the value of retirement funds. In the UK, pensions fund assets plunged to $ -equivalent to about 66 percent of gross domestic product. In 1999, the same assets were worth $1, 400 billion, nearer to 100 percent of GDP.

Pension Widow While the news is positive for Canadians purchasing foreign goods, exports may show adverse affects, economists warned.

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Fund Pension The prospects for manufacturing in Ontario will not benefit from a stronger Canadian currency, following a softening manufacturing sector from slowing US demand. The manufacturing sector shed more than 100,000 jobs between March 2005 and March 2006, the vast majority in Ontario.

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Investment Pension Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty was quick to point out there's a second hit to his province: the high dollar fuelled by growth in Alberta's booming oil industry has the central bank looking to raise rates, which would cool Alberta's growth but at the same time further challenge Ontario.

Canadian Pension Plan "I'm worried about what the Bank of Canada is going to do by way of interest rates. They are going to act to cool off that (Alberta) economy," McGuinty said. "That will come at the expense of growth in our economy. It's going to present a challenge again to the (Ontario) manufacturing sector."

Department Pension Work While McGuinty worries about Alberta's oil patch, to the South, the Bush administration is worried more about foreign supply. Washington has been looking into energy plans that envision lowering America's dependence on foreign oil. But in Alberta, there's plenty to go around and in the last few months hundreds of millions more have poured into the rich Alberta oil sands heating up the prospects of supplying Canada's largest trade partner, the United States.

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