Rajiv Silgardo led the development of Barclays Canada’s family of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and is now leading the development of BMO Financial Group’s family of ETFs (launched recently). In the following Q&A, he discusses why he left Barclays, why there is room for another ETF family in Canada, how BMO ...

Four new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from BMO Financial Group began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange June 5. The Canadian equity and bond ETFs offer fractionally lower management expense ratios (MERs) than Barclay Canada’s counterparts. The U.S.-equity ETFs offer fractionally higher MERs.

Calling for Jim Flaherty's head seems to be becoming something of a regional pastime up Ottawa way, and I guess you can't fault the Opposition for seizing what they see as an opportunity.

It seems only right to start the year off with a few predictions for 2008. First a personal anecdote. On Saturday, we celebrated the last weekend of the holiday season by taking our kids to Ross Petty’s production of Peter Pan at the Elgin Theatre. For me, the only disappointment was ...