Clients’ needs must come first for advisors to meet their fiduciary obligations
Lofty expenses are eroding Canadians’ ability to provide for their well-being
Study finds Canada has the highest mutual fund fees in the world
The new mutual fund governance rule known as National Instrument 81-107 was unveiled by the Canadian Securities Admin-istrators with much fanfare at the end of July as a great step forward in investor protection. The rule requires the managers of all investment funds that are reporting issuers to establish independent review committees to oversee the […]
The OSC seems to have lost sight of its investor-protection mandate
Regulators let shareholders down by requiring annual information requests
Morningstar’s decision to withdraw from the CIFSC prompts a hard look
Opposition to a single securities regulator crumbles before Crawford proposals
Shortcomings are caused by advisors’ firms and securities commissions
A fearless forecast for Canadian regulatory developments in 2006