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Seamark, GrowthWorks merge

Canada’s landscape of independent mutual fund managers has shrunk once again. Seamark Asset Management and GrowthWorks have agreed on a merger. The combination will create a mid-size firm with roughly $3 billion in assets under management. The new firm will be called Matrix Asset Management, with GrowtWorks and Seamark as subsidiary brands under the new […]

By Mark Noble |October 29, 2009

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Network your way to a bigger practice

I hear the phrase, “your network is your net worth,” everywhere I go. I must admit, the best investment I ever made in my own business was to start my fifth networking group. Yes, the fifth time is the charm. I’m not sure about the rest of the country, but from the time I started […]

By Stephanie Holmes-Winton |October 28, 2009

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Philanthropy needs advisors

Sometimes advisors can get lost in all the dollar and cents, and forget that they have a unique set of skills that can, and often does improve the lives of others. After 20 successful years in the financial services industry, Nicola Elkins knew she was destined for something more. Having worked for some of the […]

By John Powell |October 28, 2009

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Briefly:

For the third consecutive quarter, Canadian small cap managers outperformed large cap managers, according to the latest Russell Active Manager Report. The median small cap manager return of 19.5% in the third quarter of 2009 was more than 9% ahead of the median large cap manager return of 10.2%. “This was the strongest out performance […]

By Staff |October 28, 2009

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