Influencers face defamation, intellectual property risks
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Monthly Archive: April 2018
Fully Digital Insurance: Are You Ready?
Commentators and practitioners are taking a larger, and longer look at digital InsurTech methods. Going beyond front end quotes, insurers and brokers are bringing in technologies to improve sales, service, and support. But this...
‘An absolute gong show’: Move over Vancouver, Canada’s craziest housing market is now in Whistler
A detached house in Whistler costs $1.67 million, 4% more than in Vancouver, and businesses are buying properties to house employees as living costs drive out workers
Air Canada reports bigger loss on higher fuel costs
Fuel costs per liter jumped 16 per cent in the first quarter, Air Canada said, while traffic rose 11.4 per cent
Jumping mortgage rates will further tighten the debt vise for Canadians
The ability of Canadians to shoulder an ever increasing mountain of debt is about to be tested
Marathon Petroleum to buy Andeavor for $23 billion, creating new top U.S. refiner
The new company will leapfrog Valero Energy as the largest independent U.S. refiner by capacity
Insurers increase capacity to meet the needs of ultra high net worth clients
The list of millionaires and billionaires in Canada keeps growing — and so do the life insurance needs of this ultra high net worth demographic. Life Insurance Blog
RCMP charge individual with fraud of $6 million
The RCMP today announced that its London, Ontario Financial Crime Unit has charged an individual with defrauding the public of over six million dollars stemming from a 12 month investigation into securities-based frauds. Life...
The big three life insurers maintain strength but face headwinds
Canada’s three biggest life insurers are continuing to maintain their strength; “however, they face headwinds stemming from underperforming lines of business and the continued low interest rate environment,” says a new Fitch Ratings peer...
FCAC releases progress report on financial literacy
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) has released the Progress Report on Canada’s National Research Plan on Financial Literacy 2016-2018. The report found that Canada ranks third globally on financial knowledge, attitudes and...