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Debunking the Investment Industry: Relative Benchmarking
How is your investment manager benchmarking the success of your portfolio? This is a very important question, made all the more crucial because how your portfolio’s performance is judged – the benchmark against which it is being measured – can...
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The History and Background of CRM Phase 2 [Video]
On July 15th, 2016 the Canadian financial advisory community will undergo a drastic change – a change that will shape its revenue model forever. This transformation will be a result of the implementation of the Client Relationship Model (Phase...
Focus on meeting your goals not on investment debates
ETFs vs. mutual funds. Indexing vs. active management. Industry professionals and investors alike have staked their respective turfs on each of these issues with a level of passion usually reserved for religious or political debates. Yet...
Some Advisors Behaving Badly with CRM2 on the Horizon
After mid-July 2016, CRM2 will require investment dealers to report personalized performance, charges and commissions annually to each client. To their credit, many dealers are now providing performance reports. But two disturbing trends are...
Regulatory initiatives may not solve this fee transparency problem
Securities regulators have a lot on the go. Among the many proposed regulations is the requirement for financial advisors to show clients how much they pay in fees and the amount of commissions they collect from the client’s investments. I...
Biggest controversy with financial advisor commissions has nothing to do with advisors
Type the phrase “financial advisor commissions” into Google and the results will be less than flattering to the financial advice industry. Understandably, regulators and the media are focused on full service brokers or financial...
The Flaws In Canada’s Financial Adviser System
OVERVIEW: Recently, in the Report on Business of the Globe & Mail, there was an article titled, The Flaws In Canada’s Financial Adviser System. This article stated that: “In the investing industry, the line between what’s best for...
Institutional Governance: Focusing On The Wrong Results
The Historical Focus: Over the past three decades, institutional investors – such as group retirement plans, foundations & endowments – have gradually been lured into the erroneous belief perpetuated by the global wealth management...
Lest We Forget
“We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” George Bernard Shaw With equity markets, especially in Canada, getting close to previous bull market highs, investor behaviours appear to be changing. Specifically, it...
North American Securities Administrators Association Supports Fiduciary Standards
Investment Executive today reported that the North American Securities Administrators Association recently unveiled its U.S. legislative agenda, which was highlighed by a call to impose a fiduciary duty on everyone providing investment advice. The...
