CALGARY, Alberta (March 1, 2021)—Link Investment Management Inc. (“Link”), an innovator in employer-sponsored compensation plans, has partnered with Toronto-based Purpose Advisor Solutions (PAS), a technology platform and services provider for independent financial...
The Link savings solution: Lower fees = stronger outcomes
Link plans, including the LINK Multi Employer Pension Plan, feature total fee transparency There’s plenty that can be packed into that little word “fee.” And for Canadian investors, it doesn’t tend to be anything good. In the investment world, Canada is known for high...
Spend less, invest more, retire comfortably: The advantage of Exchange Traded Funds
Link’s passive investing, robo-advisor and use of ETFs benefits both employers and employees Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), the relatively new kids on the investment block, surpassed $4 trillion in total North American holdings by the end of 2019. That’s nearly 20% of...
Let Link’s team of professionals do the heavy lifting on the fiduciary front
Our pension-plan solutions reduce fiduciary liability and admin burden, while retaining flexibility Are you doing right by your people? For employers, it’s a complicated question—and, in recent years, potentially a litigious one. To date, lawsuits claiming employer...
Link’s workplace savings solutions can help boomers, millennials and everyone in between
Our plans provide investment suitability, meeting retirement goals for multiple generations They’re the two largest investor groups going—baby boomers, who are approaching retirement, and millennials, who are moving into an era of peak earnings. And they stand the...
Robo-advice proves its mettle in a year of financial turmoil
Link’s own robo-advisor is central to our savings, equity and pension plan solutions In the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic, robo-advisors have taken on an Alfred E. Neumann-esque stance. What, me worry? A recent investment industry publication noted that robo-advice...
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs): Calming choppy waters with a stabilizing influence
ETFs, passive investing and our own robo-advisor are the bedrock of Link’s financial wellness solutions The coronavirus pandemic. The contentious 2020 U.S. election. In a sea of uncertainty, investment experts are touting the stabilizing influence of Exchange Traded...
Employer matches: Good for your company, great for your workforce
More than half of Canadians over the age of 50 don’t have a retirement savings plan. Why don’t more employees save? Perhaps they don’t see the benefit. Maybe they feel retirement is too far down the line. Or maybe they feel they can’t afford it. How can your business...
Emergency savings, short-term savings, long-term savings: There’s a Link solution for that
Our savings plans can improve outcomes and boost workplace productivity, focus Now, more than ever, Canadians are waking up—with a strident alarm clock ringing—to their own financial vulnerability. COVID-19 has served as a massive wakeup call, say many, and has led to...
Link’s solutions can help your employees narrow the ‘retirement readiness gap’
New report suggests Canadians will need 11 times their final pay to retire comfortably It’s called the retirement readiness gap—and for some Canadian workers, it can be intimidatingly wide. A recent report from the financial wellness industry has found that the...