Making CRM2 a Positive Client Experience

This week’s IE article on CRM2 fostering stronger client relationships is a rare and welcome view on the regulation.  Now that CRM2 is a reality, why not make the fee disclosure conversation a positive one with your clients?  The article encourages the use of technology to share valuable information with your clients and we couldn’t agree […]

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POS Stage 3 Pre-trade Delivery Coming Soon….

The Canadian investment community awaits the CSA’s final Stage 3 rules for National Instrument 81-101 which are due to be published in the next 4 weeks.  This will establish the specific guidelines with respect to pre-trade delivery of the Fund Facts document and with that, the CSA has recently launched an interactive sample of a […]

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Investment Executive Article – “The convergence of marketing communication and regulatory disclosure”

Sending material to clients before they make a decision could help improve disclosure to retail investors, but may complicate advisors’ marketing efforts   Financial advisors spend much of their time in meetings, emailing, or on the phone in order to serve existing clients and attract new prospects. Many of these marketing communications are informal and […]

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Investment Executive article “Let’s not rain on the cloud”

Some financial services organizations perceive inherent risks associated with the cloud, but the temptation to avoid this evolving frontier will be done at their peril The recent breach of Apple Inc.’s iCloud service, in which compromising photos of celebrities were pulled from iCloud and posted on the web, has reignited the debate concerning our growing […]

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InvestorPOS launches CRM2 compliant module for Fund Facts delivery platform

InvestorPOS is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of our Fund Facts delivery platform. InvestorPOS now offers full support for CRM2 fee disclosure to meet the CSA deadline of July 15, 2014. CSA’s amendment to National Instrument 31-103 now requires advisors to provide oral or written pre-trade disclosure of all charges paid by […]

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InvestorPOS Announces New Release for Fund Facts Delivery Platform

InvestorPOS is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of our Fund Facts delivery platform. InvestorPOS now offers full support for CRM2 fee disclosure to meet the CSA deadline of July 15, 2014. CSA’s amendment to National Instrument 31-103 now requires advisors to provide oral or written pre-trade disclosure of all charges paid by […]

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Investment Executive article “Dealing with the coming regulatory tsunami”

Advisors cannot hope to remain compliant without the strategic use of technology There are some troubling signs that financial advisors in Canada are unaware of some of the major regulatory changes taking place that will affect their businesses. Worse still, it appears that fewer are taking any measures or employing the necessary technology to deal […]

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InvestorPOS submission to CSA on stage 3 of POS regulation

InvestorPOS is pleased to provide our comments to the Canadian Security Administrators’ (CSA) second publication of proposed amendments for the Implementation of Stage 3 of Point of Sale Disclosure for Mutual Funds: Proposed Amendments to National Instrument 81-101 Mutual Fund Prospectus Disclosure and Companion Policy 81-101CP to National Instrument 81-101, published on View Full PDF

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