Thirty years ago currency management was little more than the introduction of a free-floating exchange rate. Now currency management is the coup d’état of global portfolio construction — the latest risk management tool of many financial analysts. “Currency management is about mitigating risk, not about generating returns,” explained Zainul Ali, CFA, senior asset consultant at Towers Perrin,... 

The baby-boomer transition into full retirement will not happen anytime soon, and this is good news, according to Dr. Sherry Cooper, executive vice-president and global economic strategist at BMO Financial Group. Cooper, a high-energy 57-year-old with no plans for retirement herself, believes that given contemporary quality of life standards, market statistics and current demographics, the baby boomers... 

There was a time when RRSP season was all about smoking out the good deals — pun intended. These days many investors are looking not just for good returns but for feel-good good returns. Initially, this meant negatively screening investments — a term used to refer to weeding out companies that manufacture or contribute to less than attractive products, such as tobacco. This RRSP season, however,...