Andrea Hopkins

Advisers look to lure do-it-yourself investors

August 25, 2021 at 1:15 a.m.

TORONTO (Reuters) - While financial advisers have struggled against headlines that suggest their fees and rates of return don't offer enough benefits to ordinary investors, South Carolina adviser Kent Thune...

In hot Canadian market, parents hold keys to homeownership

August 25, 2021 at 1:29 a.m.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Laura Parsons helped her son buy his first home four years ago, and she's ready to help her daughter do the same, making her part of what...

Canada money managers eye real assets for diversity

August 24, 2021 at 9:17 p.m.

TORONTO (Reuters) - When Canada's big pension funds started to diversify out of stocks and bonds, they turned to real assets in a bid for better returns. But buying real...

BlackBerry savior Watsa, an investor with a long view

August 24, 2021 at 8:35 p.m.

TORONTO (Reuters) - As soon as Prem Watsa stepped down from Blackberry's board in August, speculation that he would launch a bid for the troubled smartphone maker started to swirl....

Neiman Marcus sold for $6 billion to Canada Pension Plan, Ares

August 24, 2021 at 8:05 p.m.

NEW YORK/TORONTO (Reuters) - The owners of Neiman Marcus Inc agreed to sell the U.S. luxury department store chain to two private investors for $6 billion, almost $1 billion more...

SEC bars Conrad Black from U.S. directorships

August 24, 2021 at 7:15 p.m.

(Reuters) - The U.S. securities regulator on Thursday banned former press baron Conrad Black from acting as a director of a U.S. company and said he must pay $4.1 million...

Loblaw bid for Shoppers would expand Weston family empire

August 24, 2021 at 6:14 p.m.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The bid by Canada's largest grocer for its largest pharmacy chain is just the latest move by the Weston family, Canada's second-richest clan, to expand a food...

CPPIB notches 10 percent return, eyes infrastructure, private equity deals

August 24, 2021 at 2:51 p.m.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, one of the world's biggest dealmakers, said a glut of cheap capital may mean it makes fewer big purchases in 2014,...

Analysis: Canadians losing faith in economic “miracle”

August 24, 2021 at 7:34 a.m.

OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) - Factory worker Nelson Claros has little time for talk of the Canadian economic miracle. The 50-year-old was laid off last year from his job of 22 years...

Women a growing market for Canadian financial advisers

August 24, 2021 at 3:59 a.m.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian financial adviser Frances Summerhill has always felt a special connection with female clients, but her focus on serving women is about more than just rapport: she...

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