Today sports fans may be able to fulfill one of their dreams for a mere $275 USD. Starting December 6 Green Bay Packers, Inc (“GBP”), the corporation that owns the reigning NFL champions of the same name, starts selling at least 250,000 “common...
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What Entrepreneurs Can Teach The Wealth Management Industry: Cash Flow Is King
OVERVIEW: Every successful entrepreneur knows the business reality that Cash Flow Is King. In other words, the financial success of their company depends upon the people in their company effectively & efficiently harnessing the assets & resources of the...
Compass – HighView Fall 2011 Portfolio Strategy Commentary
HighView Financial Group has recently published our quarterly portfolio strategy commentary for Fall 2011: HighView Compass. To read this report, please click...
Getting Back To Pension Plan Basics For Private Companies
Private Companies & Defined Benefit Pension Plans: The global financial challenges over the past several years have been a catalyst for the solvency issues facing so many defined benefit pension plans, not only in Canada but globally. Although lots of discussion...
Are MFDA Advisors Missing Out On ETFs
Today, there is an article in Advisor.ca, which discusses the range of investment options available for MFDA Investment Advisors, with a focus on ETFs, in servicing their clients. To read this article, click here. I was one of the wealth management industry...
Don’t overlook the basics of hedge fund due diligence
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 former principals, it...
Investing With Whole Life Participating Insurance For Affluent Families
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 HighView, we do not...
Borrowing to invest in high-payout funds: a numerical example
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 numerical example to...
Group Retirement Plan Investment Approaches: IKEA or Leon’s
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 house is a task...
Leveraging + High Payout Funds = Unhappy Ending
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 they’ve been...
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