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Europe Blue-Chip Dividend & Growth Fund confirms termination date

Closed-end fund units will be redeemed on March 29

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    Best Practices To Evaluate and Trade ETFs – Insights from an ETF provider

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    • December 4, 2018 February 12, 2019
    • 07:00
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    Research and Markets

    Fitch boosts Canadian coverage

    Credit rating agency adding five senior analysts to it Toronto office

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    Convergence takes hold

    Long gone are the days when mutual funds and ETFs were two solitudes. Having both products has proven to be a winning strategy

    • By: Rudy Luukko
    • November 27, 2018 February 13, 2019
    • 10:00
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    A reality check for your clients

    The projections for mutual fund returns in the next several years are modest at best

    • By: Rudy Luukko
    • November 20, 2018 February 13, 2019
    • 06:00
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    Stuck in neutral

    Mutual funds sales slump reflects investors’ risk-averse mentality

    • By: Rudy Luukko
    • November 13, 2018 February 11, 2019
    • 06:00
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    Regulators’ attention to mutual funds persists

    The CSA is focused on introducing greater investor-protection rules while planning to eliminate some of the unnecessary rules and requirements mutual funds face

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    Limiting the risk of investing in emerging markets

    Multinational companies with significant operations in emerging markets provide a safer alternative to the stocks of local companies

    A different frame

    HNW clients want guidance on the complex challenges that wealth can bring

    Powering up your practice

    Referrals are key to boosting your roster of HNW clients

    Learning the language of the next generation

    The children of the wealthy have different ideas about financial advice — and those who provide it. Understanding that mindset can help retain families when…

    Finding value in uncertain times

    Franklin Templeton Investments portfolio manager James Harper outlines his approach to value investing

    • September 26, 2018 February 12, 2019
    • 08:45

    The New Normalizing: Managing Rising Interest Rates for Income Investors

    An active ETF invested in floating-rate corporate loans aims to mitigate interest rate risk while generating income.

    • September 19, 2018 February 12, 2019
    • 09:00

    Active management – unbundled

    Build more cost-effective portfolios with a focus on the source of returns

    • September 18, 2018 February 12, 2019
    • 10:00

    Handling passive-investment rules

    Recent changes to the way that active business income earned within a private corporation is taxed may affect some of your high net-worth clients

    Slideshow: How a firm’s ratings impact advisors’ recommendations

    Although advisors are likely to recommend their firm to another advisor, this changes sometimes based on their perception of their brokerage

    Slideshow: Measuring up each firm’s average advisor

    Although overall AUM and productivity are up, this isn’t the case at all firms in this year’s Brokerage Report Card

    Little leeway for feds in next budget

    Solid economic growth and the recently negotiated U.S./Mexico/Canada Agreement for trade are points of strength, but the large deficit doesn't give Ottawa much room to…

    Income splitting in the age of TOSI

    Although the new "tax on split income" rules target adult children and spouses of business owners, there are exceptions that permit income splitting under certain…

    Changes coming for RDSPs?

    Senate committee's recommendations would increase enrolment and make accessing funds easier for planholders