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PowerShares launched as mutual funds

• Visit the Advisor.ca ETF Centre One of the world’s largest exchange traded fund providers, PowerShares has launched in Canada — not as an ETF, but as a suite of corporate class mutual funds wrapped around an underlying ETF. Advisors are clearly the target market for the new product launch by Invesco Trimark, which brings […]

By Mark Noble |January 15, 2010

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2010: A realistic odyssey

Canadians are generally optimistic about the economy in 2010. According to POLLARA’s survey of more than 4,200 Canadians, 54% expect that the Canadian economy will improve this year, compared with only 20% in 2009, said Michael Marzolini, chair of POLLARA, speaking at the Economic Club of Toronto (ECOT) recently. But while Canadians might be optimistic, […]

By Brooke Smith |January 13, 2010

2 min read

The beauty of ETFs

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are less expensive than mutual funds by a wide margin. Embedded mutual fund distribution costs – paid to financial advisors for selling them – are most of the difference. Claymore is the only ETF sponsor in Canada paying advisors from a separate ETF series that is 0.50% to 0.75% more expensive. While […]

January 1, 2010

3 min read

Hedge funds expect greater scrutiny

If there is a silver lining to the cloud that was the great financial crisis of 2008, it could be the light it shone into the shadowy corners of the financial services industry. Few crannies were murkier than the world of hedge funds, but the industry has since undergone something of a transformation. The financial […]

By Steven Lamb |November 10, 2009

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