{"id":2688,"date":"2020-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2020\/02\/28\/omers-and-its-members-ontario-economic-contribution\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:29:08","slug":"omers-and-its-members-ontario-economic-contribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2020\/02\/28\/omers-and-its-members-ontario-economic-contribution\/","title":{"rendered":"OMERS and its Members: Ontario Economic Contribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With almost half a million active and retired members, OMERS is one of the largest defined benefit pension plans in Canada. The pension plan contributions of members and employers are invested around the world by OMERS to provide each member with a stable and secure source of retirement income. OMERS investments are found across the globe and in most communities in Ontario. All across the province, Ontarians benefit from the economic activity generated by these investments and by the activities of OMERS pension recipients.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, OMERS contributed over $10 billion to Ontario\u2019s GDP and supported over 101,000 jobs through its members\u2019 pension spending and its operations and investments. This contribution was especially important in Central Ontario, where OMERS supported the most jobs relative to the region\u2019s population, and in Northern Ontario, the region with the largest number of OMERS pension recipients relative to its population.<\/p>\n<p>This report presents a comprehensive assessment of the economic contribution of OMERS to Ontario and at the regional level in 2018 in terms of household income, employment, GDP and government revenue supported.<\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf20230 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"cf20230\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\"><a class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-sm\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/OMERS-and-its-Members-Ontario-Economic-Contribution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Download the Report<\/span><\/span> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With almost half a million active and retired members, OMERS is one of the largest defined benefit pension plans in Canada. 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OMERS investments are found across the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2020\/02\/28\/omers-and-its-members-ontario-economic-contribution\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OMERS and its Members: Ontario Economic Contribution<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[112,109,103,101,106,102,115,113,138,116,114,108,104,117,111,97],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>OMERS and its Members: Ontario Economic Contribution - Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2020\/02\/28\/omers-and-its-members-ontario-economic-contribution\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OMERS and its Members: Ontario Economic Contribution - Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With almost half a million active and retired members, OMERS is one of the largest defined benefit pension plans in Canada. 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