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Changing dynamics of market surveillance

Regulators are running full-tilt to protect the markets from intentionally abusive as well as unintentionally disruptive behaviour, Miranda Mizan, principal of the TABB Group said during a StreamBase webinar on new requirements for market surveillance. The flash crash of May 6, 2010, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average drop almost 600 points in about […]

By Dean DiSpalatro |May 13, 2011

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BlackRock launches new fund

BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc., today announced that iShares, the world’s largest provider of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), is launching the iShares NASDAQ 100 Index Fund XQQ. “This new ETF is an ideal complement to our product line-up in Canada and provides investors access to a number of […]

By Vikram Barhat |May 9, 2011

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Sun Life rolls out three new mutual funds

Sun Life Global Investments Inc. has added three new Canadian mutual funds to its lineup, each with a “core Canadian” holding with a global component aimed at countering home country bias. “Many Canadians have a strong home country bias when it comes to investing, however, our market is highly concentrated in just three sectors: materials, […]

By Staff |April 27, 2011

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Infrastructure financing improving

The current state of infrastructure in Canada and its future development compare favourably with the rest of the world. An expert panel at the recent EuroMoney Canada Forum painted a rather rosy picture of Canada’s current infrastructure situation. There were, of course, comparisons drawn between the infrastructure financing in Canada and in the U.S. and […]

By Vikram Barhat |April 20, 2011

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