The OMERS Pension Blueprint Podcast
I was pleased to join Dr. Michelle Pannor Silver, author of Retirement and its Discontents on the OMERS Pension Blueprint Podcast with host Celine Chiovitti, for a couple of reasons:
First, OMERS is the pension that counts among its members most librarians in Ontario, and librarians are some of my favourite people in the world.
Second, OMERS took action in the last few years to divest from fossil fuel and invest in electrification, energy storage, and renewals, bringing it up to a solid B- on the Canadian Pension Climate Report Card (For reference, the CPP Investment Board, managers of the only public pension plan we all belong to, comes in at a D, despite their cross-country publicity tour).
Third, although the recorded conversation didn’t get as in-depth about it as I had hoped, Retirement and its Discontents is an excellent piece of qualitative scholarship. Reading it and then getting to nerd out with Dr. Pannor Silver was illuminating, and inspired the blog post and podcast episodes Why is Retiring So Hard?