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Manulife expects $250M charge

Manulife Financial expects to take a charge of about $250 million in the third quarter due to credit losses. That includes approximately $50 million due to reserve strengthening as a result of credit downgrades. Despite these charges, the insurance company says asset quality remains very high. “Due to generalized spread widening, the gross unrealized losses […]

By Craig Sebastiano |October 14, 2008

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Proposed IIROC rule too lax: FPSC

The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada’s proposed rule governing how its member firms supervise financial planning activities has drawn fire from critics, but even among those who support the measure, there are those who feel it could have been better written. The Financial Planners Standards Council (FPSC) of Canada welcomes the proposed rule, in […]

By Staff |October 10, 2008

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(October 10, 2008) Statistics Canada says the labour market is still growing but at a slower pace compared to last year. Following a decline in July and a small gain in August, employers added 107,000 workers in September. It was the largest one-month increase in at least three decades. “Overall, September’s employment report is good […]

By Staff |October 10, 2008

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The CRTC: Your new regulator

If you think the CRTC’s do-notcall legislation won’t affect advisors, you could be in for a surprise when September 30 arrives. Calls to existing clients are exempt from the legislation if you’ve been in contact with these clients within 18 months, but calls to prospects and referrals are no longer fair game for your cold […]

By Deanne Gage |October 10, 2008

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Canadian mortgage market fundamentals remain strong

The federal government’s decision to purchase $25 billion of mortgages from the Canadian banks is being viewed as a precautionary, rather than necessary move, to put liquidity in the mortgage markets. Experts maintain, while the housing market is slowing down, it doesn’t resemble anything like the U.S. crisis. The federal Department of Finance emphasized that […]

By Mark Noble |October 10, 2008

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Investors look beyond BRIC

With a lower level of correlation to the global credit crisis, developing markets are attracting investors looking for extra alpha beyond the trendy markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). At the recent World Alternative Investment Summit Canada, three experts shared their views on the risks and opportunities in the alternative developing markets. As […]

By Mark Noble |October 9, 2008

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By The Book:

(September 16, 2008) The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) has convened a hearing panel to meet on October 28 to determine the penalty for Paul Patrick Futher. Futher has admitted that between 2002 and 2006, he conducted discretionary trades in a client’s account without the client’s knowledge, nor was the account approved by […]

By Staff |October 9, 2008

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(October 9, 2008) The current sell-off on the TSX will likely see the index falling to 9,500 before the end of the year, but the fundamentals of the global economy suggest that this is a gross overreaction, according to a report from CIBC World Markets. The global economy should turn in a growth rate of […]

By Staff |October 9, 2008

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World values

If there’s any manager who knows a thing or two about what is going on beyond Canada’s borders it’s Gerald Cooper-Key. The Calgary-based manager of Mawer Investment Management’s World Investment Fund has been seeking out undervalued companies for nearly two decades. Not only is his fund seeing an 11.84%, five-year average return, but Cooper-Key was […]

By Bryan Borzykowski |October 9, 2008

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(October, 8, 2008) The persistent turmoil in the financial markets has prompted RBC to downgrade its growth outlook for Canada. RBC expects Canada to eke out a positive growth of 0.9% this year, a fairly substantial downgrade from its previous estimate of 1.4%. “The continued weakness in the U.S. economy is expected to dampen growth […]

By Staff |October 8, 2008

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