Industry News

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AGF Funds has legally changed its name to AGF Investments Inc. The name change follows the announcement in April 2009 to bring together the retail (AGF Funds) and institutional/private client (AGF Asset Management Group) businesses under one banner: AGF Investments. AGF Investments will be a diversified investment management company that provides “industry-leading services to Canadian […]

By Staff |November 2, 2009

2 min read

Urge clients to reconsider going DIY

As a full service financial planner, I’m tired of the newspaper and magazine columnists trying to convert everyone into a do-it-yourself investor. Week after week there are articles preaching to the masses with come-ons like “buy stocks for $9.99,” “trade options on your own,” “ten reasons to hate mutual funds,” “five minutes to building an […]

By Kurt Rosentreter |November 1, 2009

3 min read

Motives behind product advice

In the ongoing debate between the good and bad of competing product lines, there are often some interesting reasons given for the product recommendations. Take the use of actively managed and passively managed products, for instance. The variations on active management are nearly endless. Meanwhile, there are three distinct paradigms for passive management: the Fama/ […]

By John De Goey |October 30, 2009

3 min read

ETFs continue to gather steam

The net inflows into ETFs versus traditional mutual funds continues to be quite large, to the point that ETF providers are not asking if but rather when will ETFs hit $100 billion in assets under management in Canada? According to Investor Economics, there are currently 104 Canadian sponsored ETFs across the five major sponsors in […]

By Mark Noble |October 30, 2009

4 min read