The Ontario Securities Commission recently issued an order in the ongoing matter of Sextant Capital Management, a defunct hedge fund company. While the order pertained to a law firm wanting to remove itself from representing Sextant and its...
As an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer for affluent families, at HighView Financial Group, we frequently receive questions from our clients concerning our view about the use of insurance as an investment vehicle within client portfolios. At...
My last post on the perils of investing in high-payout funds with borrowed money sparked a lot of questions and a bit of confusion around the tax rules and associated risk. In this post, then, I thought it would be helpful to run through a...
Overview: For years now, my close friends & family have always joked that I could easily be the all-time winner of the reality show, Canada’s Worst Handyman. I love building businesses but building furniture and repairing things around...
The final chapter to the series of articles I’ve written this year on high-payout investments funds features leveraging. Over the past few years, I have been contacted by several individual investors and financial advisors about strategies...
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...
World leaders and policy makers have been trying over the past 24 months to control the fallout from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), circa 2008, and to revive economies across the developed world that are stuck in neutral. So far, success has...
This week the Globe and Mail’s John Heinzl took another run at a favourite fund of mine – BMO Monthly Income. It’s not my favourite fund for investment but rather a favourite to write about. In his recent article, Heinzl points...
We are pleased to announce that Beat Guldimann has joined HighView Financial Group’s Business Advisory Board. To read the announcement, please click...
Please click here to read an interim quarter update by HighView Financial Group which provides an overiew of the current volatilty that is happening almost daily in the global capital...