Rebecca Cowdery and Prema Thiele

To hold out

“What should we do about financial planning?” has been a question that has, from time to time, kept regulators awake at night. The officials at the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) can be expected to sleep better once IIROC’s proposed Financial Planning Rule Minimum Standards for the Provision of Financial Planning Services comes […]

By Rebecca Cowdery and Prema Thiele |September 1, 2008

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Planning and Advice

Do not call

Consumers have long complained about telemarketing calls; solicitations at dinner time, long computerized voice messages, and telemarketing calls and faxes. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) attempted to put the brakes on telemarketing in 1994 by enacting rules to govern practices, but it’s fair to say that, for whatever reason, the rules did not […]

By Rebecca Cowdery and Prema Thiele |August 1, 2008

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