Two long-standing experts in Canada’s retirement industry are founding a new national, independent research centre that brings the entire sector together to protect and improve it.

Effective Jan. 1, 2027, Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald and Barbara Sanders are launching the Centre for Retirement Innovation, Scholarship and Exchange — or RISE — at Simon Fraser University.

“I’ve dedicated my career to improving Canada’s retirement income system: combining what we learn in the academic research world with insights from government and industry, in Canada and around the world, and putting them together to create better solutions,” wrote MacDonald in a LinkedIn post this week. “This is what I’m passionate about, but passion alone is not enough.”

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