Weak but mostly positive performance for Canadian funds in August: Morningstar
Precious metals equity index rebounds after four months of losses
- By: IE Staff
- September 5, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 09:45
Latest news in Products
Excel Funds proposes changes to mutual fund lineup
Unitholders to vote on proposed merger of Excel Blue Chip Equity Fund into Excel EM Blue Chip Balanced Fund
- By: IE Staff
- September 1, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 14:35
Investors Group alters its mutual fund lineup
The firm plans to simplify its mutual fund offering by merging multiple funds and updating investment objectives and strategies
- By: Leah Golob
- September 1, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 13:15
Climate risk, diversity key concerns for Vanguard
An open letter from the CEO stresses the firm’s focus on the long-term, bottom-line impact of these factors on its investments
- By: James Langton
- September 1, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 09:25
Manulife to increase premiums for UL policies
Level cost of insurance rates on new UL insurance products will increase by varying amounts, with the most significant impact being on limited pay policies
- By: Megan Harman
- August 31, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 15:45
ETF providers must start filing “ETF Facts” on Sept. 1
The new documents share many similarities to Fund Facts for mutual funds, but contain information specific to ETFs as they’re traded on exchanges
- By: James Langton
- August 31, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 13:45
First Asset launches unhedged units of ETF
With these units, any foreign currency exposure will not be hedged back to the Canadian dollar
- August 31, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 13:10
NBDB removes commissions on U.S. listed ETFs
The discount brokerage introduced commissions-free trading on ETFs listed in Canadian stock markets last year
- By: Leah Golob
- August 31, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 11:30
BMO Investments updates Ascent Portfolios
The changes include management fee reductions and an increase to the minimum initial investment
- By: Leah Golob
- August 30, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 11:45
RBC GAM introduces new fossil fuel-free mutual fund
RBC Vision Fossil Fuel Free Global Equity Fund will avoid investing in companies directly engaged with extracting, processing or transporting of coal, oil or natural…
- By: Leah Golob
- August 28, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 10:45
Backtests of smart beta indices can be misleading: report
By expecting lower performance than backtest results show, investors can form more realistic performance expectations
- By: Jade Hemeon
- August 24, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 11:55
Redwood emerging markets ETF launches on NEO
The launch brings the total number of Redwood ETFs trading on NEO to seven
- By: Leah Golob
- August 23, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 16:45
CI Investments proposes fund mergers
Toronto-based CI Investments Inc. (CI) on Wednesday announced plans to merge six funds in order to reduce duplication and help simply its fund roster.
- By: Leah Golob
- August 23, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 15:50
Desjardins Investments updates two funds
Investment strategies will be changed to align with firm’s approach
- By: Leah Golob
- August 23, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 11:20
Mutual fund sales retreat in July
Mutual funds industry assets under management slip to $1.4 trillion
- By: James Langton
- August 22, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 14:00
Desjardins to trim fees for two ETFs
Reductions effective Aug. 23
- By: IE Staff
- August 22, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 11:10
First Asset terminates Cambridge Core Canadian Equity ETF
Payments will be made to unitholders on Aug. 24
- By: Leah Golob
- August 22, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 09:15
SSGA rebalances gender diversity index
61 new companies added to index
- By: IE Staff
- August 18, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 10:20
Middlefield fund completes issuance of additional units
Middlefield Healthcare & Life Sciences Dividend Fund IPO raises $103 million
- By: Leah Golob
- August 18, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 09:40
Manulife Investments introduces new portfolio manager
James Robertson added as manager to 10 funds
- By: Leah Golob
- August 17, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 14:55
BMO Investments introduces two new international funds
BMO International Equity Fund and BMO Japan Fund have different return drivers than Canadian markets
- By: IE Staff
- August 17, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 09:20
BlackRock Canada to delist seven ETFs
Investors can sell or wait to collect the liquidation proceeds in September
- By: Jade Hemeon
- August 16, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 11:30
DDJ High Yield Fund terminated
Units delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange
- By: IE Staff
- August 16, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 10:30
New WisdomTree ETF begins trading
The IPO of WisdomTree Europe Hedged Index ETF’s non-hedged units is now completed
- By: Leah Golob
- August 10, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 10:25
TD Asset Management to create new administration fee on emerald funds
The introduction of these fees would “achieve a fair and reasonable result for each fund”
- By: Leah Golob
- August 9, 2017 October 17, 2019
- 10:50