At HighView Financial Group, we believe that affluent Canadian families – whether they realize it or not – are actually operating a ‘wealth management business’. In other words, their investable asset base is of a sufficiently significant...
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....
At last, the year 2017 marks a great step forward for our country with regards to transparency and disclosure in the financial services industry. The long anticipated regulation, that will impact Canadian investors, will be on display in many...
Fee Disclosure Should Just be the Start Canadian securities regulators are currently forcing fee transparency for client accounts in the investment industry. This change is known as CRM2 (Client Relationship Model, Phase 2). HighView Financial Group...
On July 15, 2016 the second phase of Client Relationship Management (CRM2) became official. CRM2 is a new set of rules requiring most “financial advisors” to provide two new annual reports to each client – one detailing amounts paid to...
As seen in the May 2016 edition of Investment Executive. Recently published research on mutual fund commissions’ influence on fund flows led by Douglas Cumming, finance professor at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto...
The simple fact is that global markets are volatile. While this is always true, it is particularly pertinent presently, in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis when investors saw serious declines in their portfolios and the...
A recent article in Investment Executive highlights the results of a mystery shopping exercise wherein investment advisors were secretly evaluated by three securities regulators (OSC, IIROC, and MFDA) in 2014. Unfortunately, the results are in line...
On July 15th, 2016, CRM Phase 2 will come into effect. Investment advisors and firms will be required to disclose annual reports of charges, compensation and performance. This is a positive change for investors, who are too often left in the dark by...
On July 15th, 2016, CRM Phase 2 will come into effect. Investment advisors and firms will be required to disclose annual reports of charges, compensation and performance. This is a positive change for investors, who are too often left in the dark by...