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Friday’s close: Blythe on blogs, your letters and must-read news

Friday’s close is a new initiative to bring you something a little different — Scot Blythe presents his new, weekly round-up of the buzz on financial blogs called Tracking error, we bring you letters to the editor (send yours to editor@advisor.ca), must-read articles, quotes of the week and occasionally a funny or useful story to […]

By Staff |March 27, 2009

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Superheroes, seg funds popular in tough times

Supermodels are getting fatter, movie box office sales are up 17.5% over last year, and lipstick has its own index. With no end in sight to the bear market, escapism appears to be trumping pragmatism. Investors are no exception. The reality of a market correction that has seen many lose 25% or more over the […]

By Brynna Leslie |March 27, 2009

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Tracking error: Blythe’s best of the blogs

Sometimes it takes a crisis to capture just how much things have changed. A few years ago, most blogs were highly personal, often very political, takes on the world. Many were written by well-known journalists; many more were written by anonymous axe-grinders. But as the financial crisis has accelerated, so has the proliferation of financial […]

By Scot Blythe |March 27, 2009

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Briefly: “Insurers call for smart regulation” and more news

The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) has added its voice to those of six other international insurance associations, calling on world leaders to tread carefully when they craft new regulations for the financial services industry. The industry wants leaders of the G20 nations, who will meet April 2 in London, to develop regulations […]

By Staff |March 27, 2009

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Sprott bets the farm

As one of the country’s biggest advocates of owning hard assets, Eric Sprott is poised to bankroll what might end up being the largest farming operation in all of Canada, with the help of a number of Western Canadian bands of First Nations. While perhaps not as high on the list as gold and oil […]

By Mark Noble |March 26, 2009

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Briefly: “BMO hires senior NY investment banker” and more news

BMO Capital Markets has hired senior investment banker Christopher Donohoe as a managing director in its financial institutions group. He will be based in New York City. “Chris’s expertise in the specialty finance industry is a great fit for the team, and his hiring is testament to our continued commitment to our clients as well […]

By Staff |March 26, 2009

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Where to get your gold

Most investment strategists concede that having some gold exposure is probably a good idea for a client’s portfolio. Where there is a more pronounced debate is where and how to get that exposure. For clients, the first issue to address is the reason for adding gold. Does a client want it to preserve value of […]

By Mark Noble |March 25, 2009

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Retirement’s greatest threat?

There’s no dearth of potential pitfalls for those about to retire. Inflation, pension plan insolvency, and an abyssal stock market have all conspired to menace many retirement portfolios. However, a recent survey suggests the No. 1 threat to retirement security in Canada appears regularly on television in a black suit and sunglasses, whispering ominously that […]

By Jody White |March 25, 2009

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Briefly: “U.S. hedge fund managers rake it in” and more news

It’s probably cold comfort for most of your clients, but at least some people were making money in 2008. The latest issue of Alpha Magazine, a journal of the American hedge fund industry, reveals that four managers managed to pocket more than $1 billion each. The top earner was James Simons of Renaissance Technologies Corp., […]

By Staff |March 25, 2009

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Managers see little downside to gold

Has gold replaced oil as the favoured long position speculative trade? Maybe. There’s no denying the precious metal is popular right now — along with government bonds, it’s performed remarkably well in the downturn. Proponents of gold investing say there is a fundamental reason to allocate a portion of a client’s portfolio to gold: it […]

By Mark Noble |March 24, 2009

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