The slow death of Canada’s banking ombudsman
The independent dispute resolution service has been abandoned by most of the big Canadian banks
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Comment & Insight
Minority government likely
If we can get past Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s blackface picture, Green Party leader Elizabeth May’s photoshopped coffee cup and Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s embellished…
- By: Gord McIntosh
- October 11, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 00:04
Comment & Insight
The U.K.’s deepening wounds
Brexit isn't the only story unfolding in Britain, but it is the loudest
- By: Patricia Chisholm
- October 11, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 00:03
Comment & Insight
Midstreamers stay afloat
Companies that own oil pipelines and refineries are not affected by commodity prices
- By: Michael Ganley
- October 11, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 00:02
Comment & Insight
Take that, Ontario
Premier François Legault is riding a $7.5-billion surplus
- By: Kevin Dougherty
- October 11, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 00:01
Letter: Advisors must embrace “factfulness”
Many advisors in Canada are providing the same kind of advice they offered 20 years ago
- By: John De Goey
- August 14, 2019 October 15, 2019
- 10:00
Comment & Insight
The dangers of lax oversight
Policy-makers in the financial services industry – like those in the National Hockey League, who must fix its fatally flawed approach to overseeing Canada’s favourite…
- By: IE Staff
- May 31, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 00:02
Comment & Insight
Government blown off course
The budget bill is missing key measures announced in the March 22 budget
- By: Gord McIntosh
- May 31, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 00:01
Regulatory costs weaken portfolio returns: IIAC
Aggressive deregulation agenda would not interfere with completion of the client-focused reforms, association president argues
- By: Ian Russell
- May 10, 2019 October 17, 2019
- 10:25
Attack of the premiers
Andrew Scheer may lead the federal Conservatives, but Jason Kenney and Doug Ford have set the narrative for the October federal election
- By: Gord McIntosh
- May 3, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 00:00
Comment & Insight
Focus on the achievable
Editorial
- By: James Langton
- April 5, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 10:01
Populism rattles financial markets
In this age of rising populism and partisanship, the value of expertise and institutions increasingly is under siege. And that trend threatens economic growth and…
- By: IE Staff
- January 21, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 00:01
“Don’t forget the budget”
The Liberals want voters to keep thinking about the budget — and not the SNC-Lavalin scandal
- By: Gord McIntosh
- April 5, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 10:00
Why the change of heart?
The SNC-Lavalin affair deserves a royal commission, but not for the reason most people would expect
- By: Gord McIntosh
- March 8, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 15:00
The pipeline problem
Ottawa and the provinces must deal with Indigenous peoples and investors in an open-handed way
- By: Gord McIntosh
- February 12, 2019 October 14, 2019
- 00:00
Clients have spoken — and regulators should listen
IFIC’s recent Canadian Mutual Fund Investor Survey found that investors are very satisfied with their advisors and prefer to pay their fees indirectly
- By: Blake Goldring
- October 18, 2018 October 15, 2019
- 14:30
Bias on embedded commissions ban?
Investment industry players that favour a ban are either far removed from the average investor or could benefit directly from it
- By: Mark Kent
- July 17, 2017 October 15, 2019
- 13:40
IIROC firms already meet the best interests of their clients
Regulators’ proposals to impose a best interests standard would be “duplicative and confusing”
- By: Ian Russell
- February 28, 2017 October 15, 2019
- 17:00
Embrace the client-focused reforms
Editorial