Congratulations to Preet Banerjee on winning first prize in this year’s Portfolio Management Association of Canada’s Awards for Excellence in Investment Journalism. Preet’s article, “How You Doin’?”, in MoneySense and the work of the other two winners, Steven G. Kelman (First Leaside articles) and Guillaume Poulin-Goyer (RESP risks and benefits), [...]

In an open letter, Dan Solin provides his views in the Huffington Post about the denial by president of major securities firm of knowledge of any research that might indicate that low-cost index funds outperform their active counterparts, suggesting that she is either “hopelessly ignorant or appallingly disingenuous”…

Citing FAIR Canada’s 2010 report on Canadian money market funds, Dan Bortolotti notes in an advisor.ca article that a considerable amount of cash is “languishing” in money market funds…

The Globe & Mail’s Report on Business Editor, Derek DeCloet tackles the issue of high and opaque mutual fund fees in “DeCloet: Stop paying outrageous mutual fund fees”…

Warnings about the risks posed to investors by equity crowdfunding initiatives are getting louder. U.S. SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar, a champion of investors, continues to voice his grave concerns

The Globe and Mail’s Jeff Gray reports how some industry players are pushing for more exemptions. Ermanno Pascutto is reported as urging regulators not to reject fundamental principles of securities regulation…