Investment Executive (IE)

Investment Executive (IE) serves as Canada's main newspaper tailored for financial experts. Since its inception in 1989, IE has been published 16 times annually and connects with over 120,000 financial advisors and portfolio managers. No other financial publication matches the comprehensive coverage offered by IE. The publication has earned the trust of its audience by delivering smart and well-researched insights into the financial services industry. It covers a wide array of topics including regulation and compliance, investment funds, research, technology, estate planning, taxes, client relationship building, and the development of future client products and services.

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Industry moves this week

1 week ago | investmentexecutive.com | Alisha Hiyate

Alisha Hiyate Each week, we summarize notable moves across the financial industry. Raymond Gatcliffe has been named country officer and CEO of Citibank Canada. Gatcliffe, a 30-year veteran of Citibank, succeeds John Hastings, who served for 15 years in the role and remains on Citibank Canada’s board.
What’s with the mini-tenders for insurer stocks?

1 week ago | investmentexecutive.com | Jonathan Got

Insurers do not endorse the below-market offers By: Jonathan Got April 17, 2025 15:00 Jonathan Got In the last few months, major Canadian insurers have warned investors that mini-tenders sought to buy an investor’s stock significantly below market value. Since November, Ocehan LLC has made unsolicited mini-tender offers for Manulife, Great-West Lifeco and Sun Life shares at about 20% below market value. None of the insurers endorse or recommend the offers. A mini-tender offer is a widely...
BMO launches investment platform with Calgary investment management firm

1 week ago | investmentexecutive.com | Jonathan Got

Jonathan Got BMO partnered with Calgary-based Link Investment Management to launch a workplace investment platform, the bank announced Tuesday. The online platform will let plan holders contribute to employer-sponsored group plans such as RRSPs, TFSAs and deferred profit-sharing plans. Plan holders can also include BMO ETFs in their portfolios.
BCSC-led effort disrupts crypto fraud

1 week ago | investmentexecutive.com | Jonathan Got

Jonathan Got Securities regulators and law enforcement agencies across Canada collaborated in Operation Avalanche to disrupt an international crypto fraud between March 11 and 12, according to a British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) release Thursday.
'Unprecedented' Canadian investment in U.S. shares in February: StatCan

1 week ago | investmentexecutive.com | Jonathan Got

Jonathan Got Canadian investors increased their exposure to foreign securities by $27.2 billion in February after a $3-billion divestment in January. The rebound in investment was essentially in U.S. shares, according to Statistics Canada data released Thursday. This included record acquisitions of $29.8 billion of U.S. shares, slightly offset by the sales of $2 billion in non-U.S. shares.
CSA offers guidance on fund risk ratings

1 week ago | investmentexecutive.com | James Langton

James Langton Following a compliance review, which found that many investment fund mangers are using discretion to help set their funds’ investment risk classifications, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is issuing new guidance to firms on the practice.
Market turmoil weighs on Europe's asset managers

1 week ago | investmentexecutive.com | James Langton

James Langton The good times for European investment firms — which saw assets under management (AUM) hit record heights in the second half of 2024, boosting firms’ bottom lines — are in peril, as those gains could now be wiped out by the turmoil in financial markets, Moody’s Ratings says.
FCA proposes simpler retail cost disclosure

1 week ago | investmentexecutive.com | James Langton

“We want a simpler and more flexible retail disclosure regime that gives consumers higher quality and more useful information and empowers firms to design more engaging ways of communicating that information to consumers,” the paper said. To that end, the regulator is proposing changes to the cost disclosure that investors receive.
Global growth weakest since financial crisis: S&P

1 week ago | investmentexecutive.com | James Langton

“In both years, projected global growth would be the weakest since the global ﬁnancial crisis of 2008–09, excluding the COVID-19 pandemic,” it said — adding, “Risks are to the downside.”Prior to the U.S. election, the firm was calling for 3% global growth. However, the impact of the disruption in global trade, the sharply negative equity market reaction, and the accompanying turmoil in the global bond markets, have pushed forecasts down.
There's nowhere to hide from trade turmoil

1 week ago | investmentexecutive.com | James Langton

That data shows, in most provinces, the average household has a majority of their wealth in financial assets — only Ontario and British Columbia fall under the national average, the report shows. This high share of household wealth in financial assets in most of the country “was driven by the record highs of the equity markets at the end of last year,” the report said — noting that this has left much of the country exposed to the recent turmoil in equity markets.