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Retirement savings plan

Choosing a group retirement savings plan

As an employer, you know how important it is to choose the right retirement savings plan or retirement income plan. But where do you begin? Start by identifying your needs and those of your employees, then check out the tables below to see which plan is right for you.Image - Contact us: Participants, Sponsors and Advisors

Retirement savings plans

To help your employees save.

What do you want to do? 

Contribute to your employees' retirement plan

Offer your employees accumulated funds exclusively for their retirement

Increase your contributions as your employees increase their own contributions

Contribute only if your company makes a profit

Tie contributions to employee productivity or job performance

Allow your contributions to be vested immediately*

Group Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)

Optional

No

Yes

No

Possible

Yes

Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)

Optional

No

Yes

No

Possible

Yes

Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) 

Yes

No

 No

Yes

Yes

No

Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP)

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Up to the employer

Individual Pension Plan (IPP)

Yes

Yes

No

No

N/A

Yes

Simplified Pension Plan (SPP)

 

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

* In all provinces, employer contributions to an RRSP or a TFSA can be vested immediately. In Quebec, the same applies towards DCPPs and SPPs. In the other provinces, it's up to the employer to decide how long employees will have to wait for employer contributions to a DCPP to be vested (generally 2 years or less).

Our group RRSPs can include LIRA and locked-in RRSP provisions that would apply to any employees transferring locked-in amounts from a DCPP. 

* Other considerations apply. Refer to the specific pages for each type of retirement savings plan for more information.

Retirement income plans

To convert the money in a retirement savings plan into retirement income 

What do you want to do?

 

 

Where are the funds coming from?

Offer your retirees a group Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF)

 

RRSP, DPSP, SPP, DCPP, IPP

Offer your retirees a group Life Income Fund (LIF)

 

DCPP, SPP, IPP, LIRA, locked-in RRSP

Purchase an annuity contract to offer your retirees annuity income

 

DCPP, DPSP, IPP, RRSP, SPP, TFSA, LIRA, locked-in RRSP

Other considerations apply. Refer to the specific pages for each type of retirement income plan for more information.  

Not sure which retirement savings or retirement income plan is right for you? Check out the Retirement savings plan table and the Retirement income plan table.

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