Alan Harman, director, portfolio manager, with ScotiaMcLeod in Toronto, discusses Alma Children’s Education Foundation — a charity he founded to help educate children in poverty-stricken and indigenous communities in South America. He spoke to Fiona Collie, web reporter at Investment Executive at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto.
Mark Halpern, certified financial planner and president of illnessPROTECTION.com, finds time to give back to the community by running half-marathons, designing planned giving programs for charities and teaching advisors how to incorporate charitable giving. He spoke with Megan Harman, reporter with Investment Executive, at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto.
Glen Way, senior wealth advisor with ScotiaMcLeod in Brampton, Ont., explains the impact one person can make with mentoring and cycling across Canada to help kids with cancer. He spoke with Rudy Mezzetta, reporter with Investment Executive, at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto.
Brian Culbert, investment advisor and first vice president at CIBC Wood Gundy, speaks about his charitable work that has raised about $250,000 for Sick Kids hospital. Culbert talks about running the 168-kilometre North Face Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc race. He spoke with Jade Hemeon, senior reporter, Investment Executive, at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto.
With the launch of Live@99, Will Prinzen, a financial advisor in Ingersoll, Ont., is helping musicians who struggle to live by their craft. Prinzen also gives back in many other ways. "Now is not the time to be stingy," he says
THANKS TO ADAM WOODWARD, senior vice president and investment advisor with Toronto-based Macquarie Private Wealth Inc. in Calgary, more than 960 kids and their parents were given the red-carpet treatment this past November. The Woodward Asset Management Annual Family Movie Day is an initiative that Woodward and his business partners – John Reyes and David […]
Jeffrey Brumer, an advisor in Montreal, decided many years ago that it was important to share the warmth of personal interaction with young people. Brumer donates time and raises funds for a cause that helps children to succeed
Advisor John Gowans and his wife, Carol, have been visiting Haiti annually since the devastating 2010 earthquake. "You get more out of it than you are giving," he says
In segment one of a three-part series Giving Back -- about advisors who are donating considerable time to charitable activities -- Konrad Kopacz, director of business development and investment advisor with Queensbury Securities, tells the heart-warming story about the people who work year round to make wishes come true for children in need. Kopacz spoke with Paula Virany, multimedia editor and video producer for Investment Executive at the TMX Broadcast centre in Toronto.
ScotiaMcLeod's Glen Way has managed to combine his love of sports with the sustained commitment to helping children in need. "It's an excuse for me to be a kid," says the 36-year-old father of two