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HOOPP welcomes next step in modernization of pension system: Encouraging to see the province is listening and responding to MEPP priorities

TORONTO (Aug. 25, 2010) – The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) welcomes the province’s plan to remove the solvency funding requirement for certain large, multi-employer (MEPP) defined benefit pension plans... read more

HOOPP CEO addresses pension reform

TORONTO (April 14, 2010) – With new research showing overwhelming public concern about Canada's looming retirement income crisis, the government must act now to enable multi-employer defined benefit plans... read more (PDF)

HOOPP posts strong financial results in 2009

TORONTO (April 12, 2010): The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) announced double-digit gains of 15.18 per cent in 2009... read more

Symposium White Paper

TORONTO (March 25 2010) The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) announces today the release of a White Paper entitled Meeting the Demographic and Retirement Challenge... read more

HOOPP announces new name: Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan

TORONTO (Feb. 12, 2010) HOOPP, Canada's largest private pension fund, is marking its 50th anniversary with a new name, a new look, and a new strategy... read more

John Crocker speaks to BNN

TORONTO (Oct. 23, 2009) HOOPP President & CEO, John Crocker speaks with Business News Network about the state of pension coverage in Ontario, plus HOOPP's low investment costs and valuable, formula-driven benefit. Also featured: pension expert, Keith Ambachtsheer and Paul Moist, national president of CUPE. Watch it now.

HOOPP creates pension professorship at Rotman School

TORONTO (Sept. 16, 2009) HOOPP, along with three other major pension plans, has helped establish a professorship in pension management at the University of Toronto's Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM)... read more

In Conversation with John Crocker

HOOPP President and CEO interviewed in Healthcare Quarterly

TORONTO (June, 2009): Across the globe, the past year's financial crisis has severely undercut the financial solvency of many pension plans in nearly every sector. The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) is one of Canada's largest and most respected pension plans... read more

HOOPP well-positioned for growth

Comment on recent media reports of "superfund" in Ontario

TORONTO (May, 2009): There have been a number of media reports of late regarding a proposal for the creation of one "superfund" in Ontario - a giant pension fund that would amalgamate... read more

Defined Benefit Redefined

A speech given by HOOPP President & CEO, John Crocker regarding HOOPP's role in healthcare, health human resources and the economy

TORONTO (January 20, 2009): Good evening ladies and gentlemen and thank you for joining us for what I hope you will find to be an informative evening discussing healthcare and Ontario's economic outlook. My purpose this evening is to answer two related questions... read more.

HOOPP supports recommendations to make defined benefit plans more attractive to employers

Survey shows two-thirds of Ontarians worried about having enough money to retire

TORONTO (January 20, 2009): The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) announced its support for the recommendations of the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions... read more.

HOOPP pensions secure

TORONTO (November 2008) See John Crocker, HOOPP President & CEO interviewed on BNN.