Ethics

Industry

Desjardins and Coast Capital join forces

Desjardins Group and credit union Capital Savings are working together to help clients.

By Staff |April 5, 2013

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Industry

U.K. aims to boost financial industry ethics

U.K. regulators have implemented a required ethics test for new brokers and traders.

April 2, 2013

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Industry

Survey shows Canadians confident in advisors

The relationship between Canadian investors and investment advisors is overwhelmingly positive, according to a national survey of investors commissioned by the Investment Industry Association of Canada (IIAC) and conducted by Advisor Impact.

By Staff |January 31, 2013

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Industry

Investors scale back on gun industry support

Investors are reconsidering their support of the gun industry.

By Wire services |December 19, 2012

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Do your ethics make the FPSC grade?

You have to place your client’s interests ahead of your own. That requirement is the most noticeable change in a fresh set of standards of professional responsibility that will be applied to CFP designees and candidates.

By Staff |December 15, 2011

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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 […]

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No fiduciary standard needed in Canada

In the wake of numerous instances of financial fraud in North America, there has been increased focus on the duties and obligations owed by investment professionals to their clients. In the U.S. and elsewhere, regulators are proposing changes that would impose a fiduciary standard on those entrusted with managing investor funds.

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FPSC drafts changes to Code of Ethics, Practice Standards

The Financial Planning Standards Council (FPSC) has issued a draft for changes to the CFP Code of Ethics and CFP Financial Planning Practice Standards and is seeking feedback from the industry and the public. Among the proposed changes is the addition of a Client First principle to the Code of Ethics. The FPSC says this […]

By Staff |April 12, 2011

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Ethics

Desjardins and Coast Capital join forces

U.K. aims to boost financial industry ethics

Survey shows Canadians confident in advisors

Investors scale back on gun industry support

CFOs focusing on corporate sustainability

Key to Wall Street success? Bad ethics

Do your ethics make the FPSC grade?

Life insurance in the age of DNA testing

No fiduciary standard needed in Canada

FPSC drafts changes to Code of Ethics, Practice Standards