Fed up with high fees and limited competition, Canada’s biggest banks and major investment dealers have announced their intention to establish a new alternative trading system that will compete head to head with the Toronto Stock Exchange. The new trading system, which is currently dubbed Project Alpha, is being headed up by Jos Schmitt, who […]
It’s not easy being green, especially when it comes to building an investment portfolio, but it is getting simpler. The timing couldn’t be better as environmental risks become less theoretical and more concrete — in our lives and in our investments. Environmental risk isn’t something that makes it into the usual list of variables investors […]
Just as Canadians are being asked to take more responsibility for saving for their retirement, employees are being asked to make more decisions regarding their employer-sponsored pension plans. The problem is no one is helping them make the right decisions, which is why T. E. Wealth is sitting down with human resources professionals from across […]
Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s surprise decision that he plans to tax income trusts may have been a nasty trick on All Hallow’s Eve, but tax experts say the writing was on the wall. If tax leakage was ever an issue for the federal government then Telus’s decision to convert to a trust certainly sent […]