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How your clients can benefit from the transition in private equity

The time is ripe for investors to add these funds to their portfolios

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Balance your client’s inheritances with hotchpot and release clauses

Ensure an equitable estate distribution among beneficiaries who received earlier gifts and advances

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Building a better Canadian equities portfolio

Market changes and research support a momentum strategy

Don’t forget about RESPs when planning for your client’s estate

Advisors can help clients avoid potential complications

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Amid slower growth, investors can seize these opportunities in 2024

Drive returns for clients with fixed income, the energy transition and innovative companies

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Make more for your client by losing less

Defensively constructed portfolios can outperform in the long run

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Planning for cash flow after death

In a client scenario, an advisor fails to plan for an estate’s tax liabilities

Wrestling inflation

Strategies to protect clients’ retirement income

Advisors can help reduce inflation’s impact

  • By: Luc Lafleur
  • November 27, 2023 November 23, 2023
  • 15:00
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Strengthening oversight and accountability of the life insurance sector

New guidance will target responsibilities of insurers, MGAs, and identify suitability requirements for life agents

  • By: Huston Loke
  • November 14, 2023 November 14, 2023
  • 15:00

Elevated inflation risk requires portfolio modifications

Here are six ways to manage the challenge

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5 guidelines for investing in private credit

This unique, illiquid asset class demands a risk-conscious approach

Filing a tax document online

Help clients get value from tax prep services

Amid automatic tax filing, a proactive approach is required

Tread carefully

Rate hikes may soon end, but caution still warranted

Balanced portfolios favouring bonds will help investors ride out economic uncertainty

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Alternative investments are rewriting the rules of risk management

Consider these three implications for client portfolios

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What if stock and bond correlations are here to stay?

Column: Reconsider the assumption that government bonds outperform during equity sell-offs

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New retirement realities call for new portfolio strategies

Reconstruction should focus on client needs, risk mitigation

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Shift your paradigm to after-tax portfolio management

Implement these five steps to better serve affluent clients

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Investors can remain confident despite new-age banking crisis

Reassure clients to keep them focused on their long-term objectives

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The prudent investor rule unpacked

Help clients consider an investment policy statement in their wills

Investing as monetary policy tightens

Help clients ride out the storm with well-structured portfolios

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Help clients navigate retirement uncertainty

Leverage these tips to address planning and income needs

  • By: Ron Hanson
  • March 14, 2023 March 14, 2023
  • 15:00

The estate role you need to know about

Safeguard your client’s assets with an appointed monitor

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Hold leadership accountable for failures in ethics

Industry leaders create the culture that influences advisor behaviour

  • By: Rod Burylo
  • January 11, 2023 January 11, 2023
  • 15:00
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Adjusting to life after Goldilocks

Position your clients for the next economic cycle

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Leverage an insurance policy’s negative ACB

A client scenario illustrates the tax advantages for business owners