Industry News

By The Book: Wirth Associates fined $3,500 by BCSC

(August 14, 2008) It seems as though most investment firms would know not to conduct transactions without being registered, but apparently not everyone’s received the memo. Ontario-based Wirth Associates was fined $3,500 by the British Columbia Securities Commission for doing business in B.C. without registering under that province’s Securities Act. The offence took place between […]

By Staff |August 14, 2008

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(August 14, 2008) Thanks to Canada’s energy explosion, the Canada Pension Plan fund saw its coffers fatten by $5 billion between April 1 and June 30. That pushed the fund’s assets under management up to $127.7 billion, up from the previous quarter’s $122.7 billion. Of the windfall, $1.3 billion came from a 1% rate of […]

By Staff |August 14, 2008

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Financial planning gets a regulator

The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization has become the first regulator to propose rules about how its members supervise the non-securities related — or “financial planning” — business of their advisors. While the rules are broad in definition, they could potentially change the way dually licensed advisors do business. The proposed rule, which was introduced at […]

By Mark Noble |August 14, 2008

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Wilshire® – An Essential Element

The evolutionary AGF Elements™ portfolios provide the essential elements of successful investing in one simple solution. You have access to five innovative portfolio solutions, offering cutting edge enhancements to the fund-of-fund structure and Wilshire Associates, a leading global investment services firm. Wilshire Associates – developers of the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 IndexSM – built the […]

By Staff |August 13, 2008

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