Posts Tagged ‘advisors’

Some Advisors Behaving Badly with CRM2 on the Horizon

By Dan Hallett on March 16th, 2015

After mid-July 2016, CRM2 will require investment dealers to report personalized performance, charges and commissions annually to each client.  To their credit, many dealers are now providing performance reports. But two disturbing trends are...

Know Your Fees

By Warren Mackenzie on October 28th, 2013

Investment management fees often make the difference between comfortable retirement living and a highly restricted 
retirement lifestyle. Imagine you had $100,000 in your RRSP invested in low-fee ETFs (exchange-traded funds) and your average...

Adding value to ETF portfolios

By Dan Hallett on December 16th, 2010

In an April 2010 post, I wrote of the challenges advisors face when using ETFs as the product solution for constructing client portfolios.  In the May 2010 issue of Investment Executive, I turned around and touched on advisors’ potential...

Do financial advisors add value?

By Dan Hallett on November 29th, 2010

In the November 2010 issue of Investment Executive I reviewed a few different academic papers that attempted to answer the question gracing the title of this blog post.  Unfortunately, space constraints precluded me from detailing the titles of the...

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