Archive for the ‘Family Wealth Planning’ Category

I have written many times over the past several years about the shortcomings of the prevailing method of assessing and communicating risk to mutual fund investors.  It’s a non issue for HighView’s business so I’m careful not to...

There are seemingly more ‘experts’ picks’ columns for the first 60 days of this year (i.e. RRSP season) than in previous years.  In the Globe & Mail alone over the past month, there have been 5 articles giving readers ideas...

With the 2000s’ ballooning list of indexing products I was compelled to give indexing hopefuls a dose of straight talk nearly five years ago.  My message then:  To fully capture indexing’s long-term benefits investors should simply focus on...

Most financial advisors focus solely on investment management and estate planning—growing and preparing the assets for the (eventual) transfer to the next generation.  At Edmonds Business Family Advisory Services, we go one step further.  We...

Long-Term Thinking died on Tuesday. He was 213 years old. Long-Term Thinking lived an illustrious life since the start of the Industrial Revolution, when for the first time, people could think about more than their next meal. But poor incentives and...

Financial advisor titles are generally unregulated in Canada (Québec being the exception).  Designations – denoted by the letters after advisors’ names on their business cards – can be downright confusing.  Some are earned only after a few...

When transitioning wealth from one generation to the next, “the rest of the story” occurs after the estate transitions.  Sadly, the rest of the story does not have an upbeat outcome. Unfortunately the rest of the story is that only about 30% of...

As the calendar turns to another year, I’ve wasted no time thinking about resolutions that will help improve your chances for successful wealth management and investment management in 2014 and beyond.  Even if you commit to just a few of...