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Compass – HighView Fall 2010 Capital Markets Commentary

By HighView Financial on November 1st, 2010

HighView Financial Group has recently published our quarterly capital markets commentary for Fall 2010: HighView Compass. To read this report, please click...

Preservation Of Capital With Responsible Growth

By HighView Financial on October 24th, 2010

At HighView Financial Group, we know that the accumulation of wealth requires patience, perseverance and hard work. It goes without saying that those who are successful in creating such wealth do not want to have to create it twice!  This view...

Facilitating Excellence In The Management Of Wealth

By HighView Financial on October 16th, 2010

Our core expertise at HighView Financial Group is asset management.  When managing client wealth, though, the reality is that investments are not the most important aspect of managing this wealth.  Specifically, in the management of wealth –...

What Affluent Investors Are Desperately Seeking

By HighView Financial on October 13th, 2010

In the 2010 Edition of the World Wealth Report, it was highlighted that, given the negative impact of the recent Global Financial Crisis on the value of client portfolios, that affluent and high net worth investors are now seeking investment...

Creating An Integrated Wealth Management Experience For Clients

By HighView Financial on October 11th, 2010

“The first step to providing good advice is understanding clients’ complete financial situations.” VIP Forum, Corporate Executive Board In the management of wealth – whether it’s for family or institutional clients such as pensions,...

What Type Of Investor Are You? Return Seeker Or Risk Manager?

By HighView Financial on September 29th, 2010

Today, we had the opportunity to meet for an update with one of our investment managers: Dixon Mitchell.  This Vancouver-based investment manager operates our Total Canadian Equity Mandate for our affluent families & institutional clients....

How to tilt the investing odds in your favour

By Dan Hallett on September 21st, 2010

My article in this morning’s Globe & Mail offers tips to help investors retain more of the performance available to them.  As I jotted down the first tip – write down your investment goals – I found myself writing down...

Investment Counselling: Not A New Profession

By HighView Financial on September 12th, 2010

 “My advice to investors (who cannot give full time to a study of investments) is to seek out some trusted investment counsellor. The emergence of this new profession of disinterested investment analysts, who have no allegiances and whose job...

The Ride To Your Investment Goals

By HighView Financial on September 11th, 2010

This article is focused on the need for Investment Advisors to customize the “investment ride” — the portfolio value ups-and-downs — that investor clients take with them. Specifically, so much of the global wealth management...

The ironic comfort of balanced funds

By Dan Hallett on August 30th, 2010

In this weekend’s Report on Business, Rob Carrick nicely captured my mixed feelings about balanced funds.  As I noted in a recent Wealth Steward post, it’s critical to keep an eye on fees when choosing your bond exposure.  Yet, the...