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Melissa Shin

Melissa Shin is Editorial Director of Advisor’s Edge. Read her biography here and email her at mshin@newcom.ca.

“Not that material”: that’s how Sprott’s CFO characterized its mutual funds business’ earnings in 2016.

  • April 12, 2017 August 21, 2018
  • 16:14

Worth $3 billion, the assets will be sold to a management group led by Sprott executives.

  • April 10, 2017 August 21, 2018
  • 19:46

Your business owner clients may think of themselves as middle class, but according to the Trudeau government, they aren’t. In its 2017 federal budget, “Building the Middle Class,” the government reveals it will be reviewing how private corporations create unfair advantages for “high-income individuals.” Read: Liberals reviewing private corporations, high-income tax strategies And what exactly […]

  • March 23, 2017 October 25, 2018
  • 16:22

Put your accountant and lawyer clients on notice: the next few years are going to be extra painful.

  • March 22, 2017 October 25, 2018
  • 19:38

Before Marco Gil moved to a discretionary platform, he had to know his ABCs.

  • March 14, 2017 January 29, 2019
  • 09:45

What she's doing instead, she says, is an extension of her life's work.

  • March 7, 2017 August 21, 2018
  • 14:52

Winter is ending.

  • March 1, 2017 August 21, 2018
  • 15:43

Established financial services players are far from immune to cybersecurity threats — witness how the Heartbleed bug took down CRA in 2014, and how IIROC accidentally lost data from 52,000 clients in 2013. But when a new technology gains momentum — like robo-advice — people will scrutinize any vulnerability. This became apparent last week, after […]

  • February 28, 2017 August 21, 2018
  • 16:35

What that means for clients

  • February 6, 2017 December 5, 2022
  • 17:12

Good tax planning should happen year-round. So help clients get off on the right foot.

  • January 10, 2017 September 13, 2018
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