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AlphaPro offers enhanced income equity ETF

AlphaPro Management has announced the launch of a new exchange traded fund that employs a covered-call strategy on a portfolio of 30 of Canada’s largest stocks. The Horizons AlphaPro Enhanced Income Equity ETF began trading today on the TSX. The ETF manager, Eden Rahim, vice-president and portfolio manager with JovInvestment Management, will write primarily near-term, […]

By Staff |March 17, 2011

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Omega to offer U.S. securities

Omega ATS has announced that its subscribers will be able to trade US securities, quoted in Canadian dollars, on its platform effective April 1, 2011. The first tranche of securities will include Bank of America, Google, Microsoft and several ETFs that trade on the NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX. “Bringing U.S. securities onto the venue shines […]

By Staff |March 15, 2011

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Dynamic to merge Power Hedge series

Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd. has announced a series consolidation for Dynamic Power Hedge Fund, which will see Series A and Series F units reclassified as Series C and Series FC units, respectively. Series A and F would be terminated. In the depths of the global financial crisis in 2009, the manager added high […]

By Staff |March 14, 2011

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Toronto CFA Society honours Pauline Shum

The Toronto CFA Society has named the first recipient of their newest award, the Toronto CFA Society & Hillsdale Canadian Investment Research Award. The honour goes to Dr. Pauline Shum, finance professor at the Schulich School of Business, York University, for her research paper “The Long and Short of Leveraged ETFs: the Financial Crisis and […]

By Staff |March 10, 2011

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