Industry

Briefly:

Canada’s unemployment rate fell but there isn’t much to write home about if you don’t live in Ontario. The surprise plunge in the unemployment rate from 7.9% to 7.6% is due to a mass exodus out of the labor force. While a drop in unemployment rates should signal good tidings for the future, this particular […]

By Staff |December 3, 2010

5 min read

‘Top Fund Manager’ shares secrets

Jim Hall, the winner of the Morningstar Equity Fund Manager of the Year award at the Canadian Investment Awards, says a simple Mawer billboard slogan pretty much sums up his success in and approach to the advisor business. “Be boring. Make money.” is what the sign read. Hall, the director of research at Calgary-based Mawer […]

By Neil Faba, Associate Editor, Benefits Canada Magazine |December 3, 2010

5 min read

Survey: Women wield financial power

Canadian women have more financial power and knowledge than maybe they are willing to admit. The ‘Financial Lives of Girls and Women’, a survey of more than 1,000 Canadian women conducted in August by Angus Reid Public Opinion and commissioned by Barbara Stewart, portfolio manager at Cumberland Private Wealth Management Inc., challenges assumptions and stereotypes […]

By Staff |December 2, 2010

2 min read

Legacy planning done right

Legacy planning is about passing on what you know. When people plan a legacy, the most important thing they want to bequeath is values and life lessons, not personal assets. A rich opportunity, therefore, awaits advisors who revisit vision and values in the family, thereby re-establishing and building trust on an inter-generational basis, said Enzo […]

By Vikram Barhat |December 2, 2010

3 min read