Yves Bonneau

The slow-savings time bomb

Conseiller Editor Yves Bonneau scored a prestigious KRW award with this editorial. We at Advisor.ca salute this achievement and present his work for you on our site. As baby boomers transition from employment to pension, our attention turns to their successors – Generations X and Y. And what do the soothsayers see for these groups, […]

By Yves Bonneau |June 13, 2013

3 min read

Economic Indicators

Markets ignore Parti Québécois victory…for now

The financial sector has ignored the Parti Québécois’ victory in Quebec. After Pauline Marois’s narrow win, the credit spread between the debt of the Government of Quebec and Ontario stood at 16 basis points.

By Yves Bonneau |September 6, 2012

2 min read

Industry

Watch your clients get taxed to the bone!

Advisor.ca is proud to congratulate Yves Bonneau, Editor in Chief of our Quebec affiliate Conseiller.ca, on winning the Kenneth R. Wilson (KRW) Award for Best Editorial in 2010. The KRW Awards recognize the best in Canadian business press journalism. Here is his Silver Award winning editorial: In 1999, Claude Laferrière, professor of tax policy at […]

By Yves Bonneau |June 10, 2011

4 min read

Life

Life insurance in the age of DNA testing

Advisor.ca is proud to congratulate Yves Bonneau, Editor in Chief of our Quebec affialiate Conseiller.ca, on winning the Kenneth R. Wilson (KRW) Award for Best Editorial in 2010. The KRW Awards recognize the best in Canadian business press journalism. Here is his Gold Award winning editorial: Slowly but surely, genetic testing on humans is making […]

By Yves Bonneau |June 9, 2011

4 min read

Industry

“Too honest to be famous”

With its three sensationalist slogans, the least we can say is that the new advertising campaign of the Montreal chapter of the CFA hits below the belt: These three messages have been plastered on super-sized billboards along major roads in Montreal since Monday, January 24. According to the new advertising agency CFA Montreal has hired, […]

By Yves Bonneau |January 28, 2011

6 min read

Industry

Norbourg proved one hot potato

If there was a Guinness record for the longest game of hot potato, the Norbourg scandal would probably be included among the finalists—and this without counting all the other unenviable records linked to it, like most confused court proceedings, greatest ever financial scandal in La Belle Province, greatest number of lost faxes, worst collaborative effort […]

By Yves Bonneau |January 25, 2011

5 min read