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AlphaPro offers balanced ETF

Close on the heels of Global Dividend ETF and Canada’s first actively managed corporate bond ETF, Horizons AlphaPro launches Canada’s first actively managed Balanced ETF. The Balanced ETF, which begins trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange, seeks to provide a consistent rate of return balanced between current income and long-term capital growth. “Balanced mutual […]

By Vikram Barhat |July 28, 2010

2 min read

Using ETFs for portfolio building: Part 2

Reader Alert: This is the second of a three-part series on how ETFs can help control costs when constructing core portfolios. The alarm rings reliably every morning just before daybreak. If it doesn’t sound, does that mean the sun will not rise? Maybe, if you live in the shadow of Iceland’s volcano, but otherwise get […]

July 15, 2010

4 min read

Guaranteed withdrawal benefits

Since the onset of the financial crisis, the word ‘guaranteed’ in a product name has resonated more powerfully with advisors and clients than ever previously. Shell-shocked baby-boomers will likely continue reacting more positively to guaranteed products than before the crisis. The Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit (GWB) is a feature available through a segregated fund contract or […]

By Al Emid |July 7, 2010

4 min read

Retail investors largely locked out of infrastructure

With Ontario toying with the notion of selling a 20% stake in government enterprises such as the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation and Hydro One, infrastructure investing is moving from the hidden fields of alpha to mainstream beta: an asset class everyone can invest in. But the terms and […]

By Scot Blythe |June 30, 2010

3 min read