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Rising interest rates, higher energy costs and easy credit are beginning to take their toll, and it will probably get worse

  • December 7, 2005 December 7, 2005
  • 14:31

Low interest rates, combined with tax benefits and long-term compound growth, make these loans extremely attractive

  • December 1, 2005 December 1, 2005
  • 11:47

A small investment and a few security precautions can make technology work for you almost anywhere, anytime

  • November 3, 2005 November 3, 2005
  • 15:26

The challenge for IT departments is how to cater to the diverse range of advisor skills, needs, desires

  • November 3, 2005 November 3, 2005
  • 13:44

A taxpayer who represents himself in Tax Court against the CRA needs to come to court prepared

  • November 2, 2005 November 2, 2005
  • 12:11

Everyone has locks on the door to discourage thieves or unwanted visitors from entering the workplace or home. Many people, however, don’t take the same basic safeguards for Internet connections, even though their computer is exposed to illegal entry by millions of users every time they are online. Hackers lurk in every corner of the […]

  • September 30, 2005 September 30, 2005
  • 11:58

Customizing less cumbersome reports for unitholders is slowly catching on with fund dealers and brokers

  • September 29, 2005 September 29, 2005
  • 11:49

The murky world of wrap-account performance will become clearer in 2006, thanks to new reporting standards announced by the CFA Institute, the body that oversees the certified financial analyst designation.Alecia Licata, director of investment performance standards at the Institute’s Charlottesville, Va., head office, says the new global investment performance standards were four years in the […]

  • September 29, 2005 September 29, 2005
  • 11:44

“Phishing” and “pharming” Web scams could put your bank accounts, or those of your clients, at risk

  • September 1, 2005 September 1, 2005
  • 10:49

When used illicitly, the software can gather confidential information, making it the “No. 1 danger to advisors”

  • September 1, 2005 September 1, 2005
  • 10:48