Josh Welsh

Josh Welsh

Benefits and Pensions Monitor

Josh Welsh

Senior Journalist

8 years experience149,397 Total views on Benefits and Pensions Monitor in 2025

Josh's specialty topics

Retirement planning Pension plans Workplace benefits Alternative Investments

Josh Welsh is a senior journalist in the Wealth vertical for Key Media, where he covers the people, firms, and trends in the benefits and pensions space. As lead reporter for Benefits and Pensions Monitor (BPM), he reports on institutional investing, pension governance, retirement policy, as well as employer-sponsored benefits plans. He has also contributed to BPM's sister US publication InvestmentNews.

His reporting draws on direct conversations with industry experts, CIOs, plan sponsors and portfolio managers, translating complex developments in capital markets, pension plans and regulation into clear, accurate coverage for industry decision-makers. He adheres to Key Media's editorial standards on sourcing, verification, and disclosure, and is committed to accuracy, balance, and accountability to readers.

Josh is a Humber Polytechnic graduate, with a bachelor's in journalism and a diploma in screen acting. Outside the newsroom, he's a member of the historic Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, an avid filmgoer, and continues to pursue his passion for acting.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“I cover the pensions and benefits space around topics that I believe plan sponsors and administrators would not only be able to relate to but find the most interesting. Because this space can become quite inundated with the same themes, the most rewarding challenge is finding other topics that are less surface level.”

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Featured content from Josh

Why men's health gaps are showing up in the group benefits plan New realities shape Canadian drug benefit plans: Barbara Martinez A personal mission to end men's mental health challenges

Previous experience

  • 96.9 Humber Radio — Intern
  • CityNews 680 — Intern
  • Cision — Client Content Specialist
  • Skedline (Humber College) — Reporter

Education

  • Bachelor of Journalism, Humber Polytechnic

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Why Canadian pension plans aren't chasing growth right now

Schroders’ Michelle Skelly explains why private markets are key to pensions’ capital preservation playbook as Canadian plans stay defensive on risk

Why Canadian pension plans aren't chasing growth right now

Why DC plan sponsors still aren't ready for decumulation

Plan sponsors face a growing decumulation problem as most pension plans still lack a drawdown strategy, experts say

Why DC plan sponsors still aren't ready for decumulation

Plan sponsors weigh GLP-1 generics amid supply, cost gaps

Employers aren't overhauling drug plan design for GLP-1 generics just yet as savings still remain out of reach, say insurers

Plan sponsors weigh GLP-1 generics amid supply, cost gaps

How asset managers are rethinking emerging market country selection

Investment experts at Desjardins, Global X and People Corporation argue geography alone no longer drives sector composition in EM investment decisions

How asset managers are rethinking emerging market country selection

Why Canada's recession risk hinges on labour market outcomes

Russell Investments’ BeiChen Lin offers a constructive outlook for H2 2026’s labour market as he argues Canadian economy is under pressure but not broken

Why Canada's recession risk hinges on labour market outcomes

Inside Plannera's DB and DC cross-pollination pension design

CEO Jeremy Phillips weighs in on how Plannera is borrowing from DB to strengthen DC, why they launched the Lifetime Pension product

Inside Plannera's DB and DC cross-pollination pension design

Monthly Spotlight: Emerging Markets

Read BPM's highlighted coverage of key topics from July

Monthly Spotlight: Emerging Markets

China's AI independence creates an emerging markets growth case

China may be the only country that can rival the US on AI in emerging markets, says RBC GAM UK's Christoffer Enemaerke

China's AI independence creates an emerging markets growth case

IMCO adds $300 million in pension assets with Hamilton mandate

Rising investment complexity is pushing more public sector organizations toward external management, said IMCO

IMCO adds $300 million in pension assets with Hamilton mandate

DB pension plans post 6 per cent Q2 gain on global equity rally

Plan sponsors are asking harder questions about what is inside their portfolios, says RBC

DB pension plans post 6 per cent Q2 gain on global equity rally