Jonalyn Cueto

Jonalyn Cueto

Benefits and Pensions Monitor

Jonalyn Cueto

freelance news writer

11 years experience24,035 Total views on Benefits and Pensions Monitor in 2025

Jonalyn's specialty topics

group benefits pension and retirement employee wellbeing

Jonalyn Cueto is a contributor for Key Media. Her coverage spans business, finance, pension fund, private markets, M&A activity, retirement, and employee benefits.

Jonalyn has over six years of writing experience and more than a decade in the journalism industry. Her early writing career focused on current events and lifestyle topics, collaborating with various local and international media outlets primarily as a freelancer.

She has also worked as a book editor and technical editor, editing dissertations, essays, and textbooks—experience that sharpened her attention to structure, clarity, and accuracy in complex material.

Her combined newsroom and editorial experience shapes her approach to financial and business journalism.

She holds a bachelor's degree in mass communications, majoring in journalism, and a master's degree in business administration, majoring in marketing management.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“I believe good reporting starts with getting the facts right. Before I write, I make sure every key detail comes from a reliable source. I also like to focus on the background of the story because pensions and benefits are about how decisions affect retirees and organizations, not just statistics.

 

I try to explain updates in a way that's balanced and easy to understand, especially when different people may see the same data differently”

Also published by

Wealth Professional · Mortgage Professional · Insurance Business · Canadian Occupational Safety · The Educator

Featured content from Jonalyn

Global worker engagement at five-year low, Gallup finds Feds transfer $900 million pension surplus Canadian employers rethink benefits, report finds

Previous experience

  • Synchrogenix Philippines — technical editor
  • Bookbright Media — freelance technical editor
  • Christian post — freelance news writer
  • Rex Publishing — editor/proofreader

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications, major in Journalism
  • Master's in Business Administration, major in Marketing Management

Read the latest stories by Jonalyn

Canada, EU pledge closer ties at Montreal summit

Joint statement covers digital trade, education and defence, but drops "associate member"

Canada, EU pledge closer ties at Montreal summit

Canadian DB plans lose 2.6% in Q3 as rising yields cut both ways

Record 132% solvency shows why headline returns can mislead plan sponsors

Canadian DB plans lose 2.6% in Q3 as rising yields cut both ways

Two-thirds with eczema struggle to find lasting treatment, survey finds

Landmarks across Canada will glow blue in November for Eczema Awareness Month

Two-thirds with eczema struggle to find lasting treatment, survey finds

Saskatchewan Pension Plan turns 40 as workplace coverage gap persists

A voluntary, portable plan with 32,000 members targets workers left uncovered

Saskatchewan Pension Plan turns 40 as workplace coverage gap persists

Wealthsimple lands $425 milion round at $13.8 billion valuation

CPP Investments, IGM and Power Corp. back the fintech again as assets reach $169.2 billion

Wealthsimple lands $425 milion round at $13.8 billion valuation

Canada’s top doctor cautions health gains are not permanent as healthy years shrink

Report spans disease, substance use, wildfires, and mental health across seven trends

Canada’s top doctor cautions health gains are not permanent as healthy years shrink

Two-thirds of Canadians fear critical illness, yet only 10% report having coverage

More than a third of workers say savings would last six months or less, poll finds

Two-thirds of Canadians fear critical illness, yet only 10% report having coverage

Few Canadians plan for a long retirement, survey finds

Savers outnumber planners, and those who understand the CPP report far greater confidence

Few Canadians plan for a long retirement, survey finds

Employers swap GLP-1 coverage for self-pay, coaching and HSA options

Direct-to-consumer, reimbursement and coaching models carry different costs for plan sponsors

Employers swap GLP-1 coverage for self-pay, coaching and HSA options

BCE sells 49.9% of Bell tower business to La Caisse for $2.45 billion

The deal values TowerCo at $4.91 billion and supports BCE’s debt-reduction target

BCE sells 49.9% of Bell tower business to La Caisse for $2.45 billion