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Kitchener, Ont.-based Financial Horizons Inc. has acquired Ottawa-based R.G. Packman & Associates Ltd. in a transaction that was completed in February. The management team, office…

Raymond James lands a Cougar

Purchase enables Cougar to make its ETF portfolios available to a wide network across Canada

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  • By: IE Staff
  • March 31, 2015 October 30, 2019
  • 23:00

A waiting game

Mutual funds

The pension puzzle: Public or private?

Too few company pensions and stretched public finances are heating up the debate over adequate retirement funding

First centre for financial tech opens

MaRS Discovery District, an innovation hub in downtown Toronto, is bringing together several early-stage financial technology firms in a “FinTech Cluster” designed to promote startups…

More acquisitions for GWL

The Winnipeg-based firm has pressed on with its focus on growth in the U.K. and Ireland with two recent acquisitions

Documents and a testator’s wishes

A high percentage of affluent Canadians do not have wills. A recent judgment from B.C. demonstrates the resulting difficulties

Help needed for portfolios

New research suggests that Canadian investors need help putting together and understanding their retirement portfolios

Study: Focus on future profitability

While older clients may have more assets, younger clients represent growth for advisors, says a new study

Robo-advisor expands beyond ETFs

WealthBar Financial now offers clients a suite of pooled funds

More taxpayers give up U.S. citizenship

The heavy compliance burden related to filing taxes is one big reason

Raymond James lands a Cougar

Purchase enables Cougar to make its ETF portfolios available to a wide network across Canada

Getting a handle on digital currencies

Defining just what this technology is is the first task that Canadian policy-makers face

First fine under CASL a “wake-up call”

Financial services firms should take heed of the first case dealing with a violation of Canada's new anti-spam legislation

Securities selection key to success

Flexibility in asset allocation also was important in how segregated fund families performed in 2014

Feds extend access to banking info

Under new legislation aimed at a host of emerging threats, including cyberbullying, terrorism and theft of Internet and cable services, financial services institutions are likely…

Pensions and ex-spouses: A tangled web

Marriages come and go. And so, at times, do pensions. Recent court decisions point to the need for precision in documentation

Pitch services, not products

A new CIBC survey suggests that although clients believe they would benefit from financial advice, they're reluctant to seek it

MFDA aims to clarify sales rules

There's still much confusion among advisors and their mutual fund dealers about the sale of syndicated mortgages

Opposing views on the ORPP

Debate is heating up over the features and application of the proposed public pension plan taking shape in Ontario

Regulators tweak exempt-market regime

The CSA and the OSC have introduced new reforms lately, but the ultimate impacts of those reforms appear to be at odds

Retirement becoming more elusive

Surveys from Sun Life and RBC reveal that retirement, as we know it, is becoming ever more challenging for Canadians

  • By: Paul Brent
  • February 27, 2015 October 30, 2019
  • 00:00

Canucks hoarding cash

While Canadians see cash and fixed-income as good investments, Americans see equities as the way to go, a recent survey suggests

  • By: Paul Brent
  • February 15, 2015 October 30, 2019
  • 00:00

IIVC: Will new program fail?

There's much debate about whether the federal government's new immigrant-investor program will achieve its goals