Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction, goes the adage. But when it comes to money, Canadian men and women are neither seeing eye-to-eye, nor looking in the same direction. A recent RBC poll, aptly titled He Says, She Says, exposed the considerable gap between the sexes in […]
You gotta be kidding! Those four words broadly sum up the financial industry’s response to the new IIROC rules notice about the use of social media. Meeting IIROC’s extended hand with a clenched fist, industry participants wasted no time in dismissing the notice as IIROC trying to look trendy rather than showing any real understanding […]
Against the backdrop of the personal wealth lost in the financial crisis and subsequent attempts at recovery, tax and financial planning are more important that ever.
Although the mainstream media on both sides of the pond are going to town about the proposed LSE-TMX merger, the sense in the Canadian financial industry is that it’s not really going to set the Thames on fire. A deal like this only means two companies are looking to develop or defend their market, says […]
A fragile recovery, high unemployment and household indebtedness make America a friend in need. But as a country known more for permanent interests than friends, the U.S. is being increasingly seen as a poor choice for friendship.
The relentless lobbying for social media has finally extracted a grudging nod from the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC).
When it comes to planning retirement, it pays to go beyond covering all the usual bases. The optimal retirement planning process must adapt to individual goals, according to a report from Laurentian Bank.
When it comes to retirement planning, Canadians are suffering from the willing-but-not-able syndrome.
The Indian economy is an elephant growing at 9%, making it a formidable beast in the global financial jungle, a financial expert from India recently said. An amusing parallel, but the pachydermal analogy actually makes a strong case for the world’s fourth largest economy as an investment destination of choice. “India is the country of […]
Historically low business bankruptcies have created the strongest ever corporate Canada in the most difficult economic times.