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Divorce negotiation strategies to protect your clients’ wealth

Advisors can help separating clients by maintaining emotional distance

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How to add value with tax-loss harvesting

And how to communicate that value to clients

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Are your clients prepared to sell their businesses?

A CFIB survey suggests there's plenty of work to be done

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Transferring a commuted value to an individual pension plan

Helping clients with a complex decision

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Are advisors liable for losses from market downturns?

The answer might surprise you

Balancing financial stability and life experience

Clients’ career paths are becoming less straightforward, and you need to adapt

  • By: Katie Keir
  • November 28, 2018 December 4, 2018
  • 09:00
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Why home-country bias can hurt clients

Being overweight domestic equities can be a problem

Advisor confidential: Tanya Surette

“I try to maintain a 200-household limit"

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Do you expect your advisor to deliver certain returns?

We asked three clients

  • By: Sharon Ho
  • November 28, 2018 December 4, 2018
  • 09:00
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How to help a victim of sexual harassment

You may be the first person she’s told

Oktoberfest

The first 10 minutes

A wife worries about her husband's extravagant gifts

When a senior client’s situation sparks suspicion

Advisory challenges of financial abuse and dementia

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How clients will choose their future advisors

Ways to become their chosen candidate

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Help senior clients manage these risks

Sequence risk, along with unexpected long-term care costs, could affect clients' portfolios

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Proceed with caution when aging seniors request account changes

What advisors should know

Why living longer doesn’t mean more retirement years

Canada's average retirement age has been increasing for more than a generation

  • By: Staff
  • October 29, 2018 October 29, 2018
  • 12:28

The downside of disclosure, and other tips

Three things we learned at BEworks' financial services summit

When a client’s child receives a financial windfall

Offer to introduce the child to investing or help the family manage

Chris Prendergast

Client confidential: Chris Prendergast

How to help a young entrepreneur

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How to make the most of your support staff

Underappreciated assistants are a wasted resource

  • By: Katie Keir
  • October 15, 2018 October 15, 2018
  • 16:33

When a client meeting takes an unexpected turn

What happens when the child of an elderly client wants to sit in?

Concept of important choices of a businessman, Business Challenge

Have you ever turned away a client who didn’t fit with your practice?

Advisors weigh in

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Five steps to growing family wealth for the long term: Part 2

The last two steps of the process

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Five steps to growing family wealth for the long term: Part 1

Consciously deciding to sustain family wealth for the long term is atypical

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Small-business owners need succession help: poll

The problem is, nearly half don't intend to consult an advisor

  • By: Staff
  • October 1, 2018 October 1, 2018
  • 10:44