PRIMEUR - Investia Services Financiers et Centre national de courtage d’assurance, deux filiales de l’Industrielle Alliance (IA) sont arrivées à un accord leur permettant d’acquérir certaines divisions de la société ontarienne Ten Star Group of Financial Service Companies.
La compagnie Richardson GMP a conclu une transaction de 15 M$ avec Dundee Goodman Private Wealth, une division de Dundee Securites qui implique le transfert d’environ 60 conseillers en investissement ainsi que leur équipe aux mains de Dundee Goodman.
Depuis que l’Organisme canadien de réglementation du commerce des valeurs mobilières (OCRCVM) a perdu les données personnelles de 52 000 clients, l’organisation a entrepris un examen de sa politique de sécurité afin d’éviter qu’une telle erreur ne se reproduise. Mais le risque zéro n’existe pas, selon Susan Wolburgh Jenah, présidente et chef de la direction de l'OCRCVM.
Despite the resounding rebound in stock markets and, in turn, growing books of business, advisors surveyed for this year's Dealers' Report Card have yet to see any upward movement in their compensation levels.With average assets under management (AUM) increasing to $27.8 million from $23.7 million last year, it's evident that advisors are working hard to bring in new business. However, they're not seeing their wallets get any thicker in the process. In fact, the percentage of advisors surveyed who earn less than $250,000 actually rose to 73.2% from 72% last year; those earning between $250,000 and $500,000 remained stagnant, at 17.9%; and those earning more than $500,000 dropped to 8.8% from 10% in 2012.
There is an obvious dichotomy between financial advisors and their firms in this year's Dealers' Report Card: advisors feel they're stuck in a stagnant environment in which they require much more assistance than they're receiving, while firms seemed to be treading water instead of investing in the necessary tools and resources that advisors need to succeed in today's post-recessionary environment."The firm promises a lot," says an advisor with Toronto-based DundeeWealth Inc. in Atlantic Canada. "And they either fail or do very little of what they said."