Practice

Good help — harder to find than ever before

(January 2007) If financial advisors hope to be competitive in 2007 they’ll need a good administrative assistant by their side. Finding the right employee, however, is going to cost more than ever before. In fact, a recent survey from Robert Half International and their subsidiary administrative staffing firm, OfficeTeam, suggests salaries in the Canadian financial […]

By Bryan Borzykowski |January 24, 2007

4 min read

Legally speaking: When changing dealers

Last week we reported on a recent British Columbia Court of Appeal decision that awarded punitive damages in a case where RBC Dominion Securities sued several defecting advisors and Merrill Lynch Canada for “dangling various inducements” and encouraging them to bring client records before leaving DS. Click here to read more. Punitive damages aside, the […]

By Staff |January 22, 2007

6 min read

Delicate bedfellows

(January 2007) After recent scandals you can hardly fault the industry in its quest for higher levels of compliant behaviour. Compliance, of course, is a large area involving the back, middle, and front offices, and the financial services industry is fast-tracking development on all fronts. This can be costly to maintain because it requires additional […]

By Steve Garai |January 15, 2007

3 min read

A unique opportunity to invest in a growing market

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By Staff |January 7, 2007

1 min read