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Aligning A Portfolio With Your Goals

By Greg Rodger on September 17th, 2025

An architect wouldn’t design a custom home for a family without first asking many questions about what the homeowners are hoping to achieve (e.g. size, budget, form, and function).  And the process of designing an investment portfolio should be...

The First Step is Wealth Planning: Here’s Why

By Ian Calvert on September 11th, 2025

Financial planning is the first step in a comprehensive discovery phase at HighView Financial Group. While many investment firms may eventually get the financial planning services once the assets have been secured, or simply don’t offer these...

Family Home Downsize? Remember these 5 Crucial Steps [Video]

By Adam Laird on September 4th, 2025

A “fixed asset” is a long-term tangible asset that is not expected to be consumed or converted into cash any sooner than at least one year’s time. In Canada, a “family home” is considered a fixed asset. When downsizing their homes, many...

Wealth Planning is a Living Document: Changing as Life Does

By Ian Calvert on August 27th, 2025

One of the core principles at HighView is to understand the purpose of the portfolio. To assist in discovering this purpose, a comprehensive wealth plan or financial plan is created. The wealth plan can then become one of the most important...

Portfolio Design is Crucial – Here’s Why

By Adam Laird on August 13th, 2025

In many ways, creating an investment portfolio is like building a custom home. At the outset you have a variety of options in front of you with sizes, amenities, and styles. The role of the architect is to design something that will be the right for...

7 Primary Signs when to change your Investment Advisor

By Greg Rodger on August 6th, 2025

Like any profession, there are competent advisors and not-so-competent advisors in the wealth management industry. Our experience is that there are always warning signs for clients that it’s time to change investment advisors. Here are seven signs...

Wealth Planning: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

By Ian Calvert on July 23rd, 2025

Financial planning is the first step in a comprehensive discovery phase at HighView Financial Group. While many investment firms may eventually get the financial planning services once the assets have been secured, or simply don’t offer these...

Do Covered Call Strategies Shine In “Flat Markets”?

By Dan Hallett on June 26th, 2025

As a child, I sat too close to the TV, cracked my knuckles, and swallowed more than a few pieces of gum. If all of the legends I heard in childhood were true, I would now be a visually-impaired, middle-aged man with arthritis and tummy full of...

Your Portfolio and Life Goals Should Always be Inline

By Greg Rodger on June 11th, 2025

An architect wouldn’t design a custom home for a family without first asking many questions about what the homeowners are hoping to achieve (e.g. size, budget, form, and function).  And the process of designing an investment portfolio should be...

HighView’s Transparency and Consistency in Measuring Investment Performance

By Greg Rodger on May 14th, 2025

It may come as a surprise to many that there are different ways to calculate investment returns and that it is possible to see a negative investment return for your portfolio when the underlying investments have actually generated positive returns....

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