The business of trading securities has changed dramatically in the past few years and the forces of corporate ambition, competition and regulatory preoccupations almost certainly…
Toronto-based Ernst & Young LLP signed an agreement April 22 to sell Ernst & Young Investment Advisers Inc. to a management-led financial group. The new…
By the end of may, the first privately owned Canadian bank plans to be in the loan business — the car loan business.General Bank of…
Toronto-based ppi Financial Group is betting that the high net-worth market is far from being overcrowded by sales-hungry advisors and, instead, remains a largely untapped…
Twenty years ago this month, the Independent Financial Brokers first staked out its position as the voice of independent insurance brokers across Canada. A shift…
Directors of the now-halted Crocus Investment Fund are accused of permitting sales and redemptions of units for more than three weeks after they had been…
The pool of money available to smaller-scale businesses in Nova Scotia just got deeper. The province has become the first on the East Coast to…
All signs point to “business as usual” for First Asset Management Inc. and its affiliates following its recent acquisition by Massachusetts-based asset management firm Affiliated…
The office of the superintendent of Financial Institutions seems a throwback to the days when a mere finger wag by a regulator was sufficient to…
The office of the superintendent of Financial Institutions seems a throwback to the days when a mere finger wag by a regulator was sufficient to…
When something appears to go seriously wrong in the financial services industry there’s always going to be blowback hitting the rest of the industry. In…
Many economists expect the Canadian economy to chug along at 2.5%-3% this year, but there are a number of threats
Big ideas, by their very nature, have to overcome big obstacles — from practical economic objections to tradition and entrenched interests. They all conspire to…
Although a june federal election would nullify the measures introduced in the recent federal budget, financial advisors and investors can be pretty confident that the…
Unusual ideas may fail but still succeed in challenging ingrained thinking
Who better to ask about the brokerage industry than those who work in it? That’s the philosophy of Investment Executive when we invite hundreds of…
The treatment of some preferred shares in financial statements is changing for fiscal years ending in 2005. The change will address the Canadian Accounting Standards…
The majority of canada’s publicly traded financial services companies saw profits rise in the fourth quarter of 2004 from the same quarter a year earlier.…
On the 53rd floor of the gleaming Scotia Plaza tower overlooking downtown Toronto, Kevin Whelly is hatching a plan. Little more than a month has…
A joint venture between two Prairie-based financial services companies could mark the beginning of a new Western Canadian insurance brokerage network with a major presence…
Executives at quebec City-based Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc. have added another building block to the geographically diversified wealth-management business it has been…
Joseph iannicelli doesn’t see Standard Life Assurance Co. of Canada’s recent corporate restructuring or proposed demutualization as a strategic challenge. The move to bring the…
After 12 years at the helm of Aegon Canada Inc., George Foegele is stepping down as chairman, president and CEO, but is staying on as…
The montreal exchange is creating a new product aimed at retail investors who are being stung by the rising value of the Canadian dollar. The…
Larry sarbit, lead manager of AIC Ltd.’s $1.6-billion American Focused Fund, has resigned from the Burlington, Ont.-based fund company, ending his five-and-half-year tenure at the…