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Streamlining eDelivery for prospectuses

How the “notice and access” mechanism for proxy voting could be extended to other documents

Lower compliance costs will allow advisors to better serve smaller investors

Clients have demanded an integrated platform of products and services driven by their desire for convenient, one-stop shopping

Ontario’s new insurance regulator will raise the standards of transparency and conduct not only in the province, but nationally

UN summit on sustainable finance taking place in Paris this week

Taking this approach can help arrest erosion in operating margins in the wealth-management business and be of benefit to clients

Many independent firms may restructure or retool their wealth-management operations to mitigate the negative impacts of the client-focused reforms

Adopting a strategy focused on technology would give a firm’s advisors greater potential to grow their businesses

Recent developments reveal that having a trusted financial advisor is critically important for those seeking wealth-management providers

Electronic wealth-management platforms could improve the prospects of small and mid-sized investment dealers

More attention needs to be paid to enhancing market efficiency by lowering costs and lightening the regulatory burden for registrants

As a new survey reveals that investors have trust their advisors, proper steps need to be taken to ensure advisors are allowed to thrive

Whether Canadian securities dealers can establish a global model of payment for research will depend on U.S. regulatory accommodation to MiFID II