The Common Reporting Standard (CRS) is now in full force. In many ways a clone of the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), passed in 2010, it has several subtle but significant differences that may serve as pitfalls for many
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When presented with an opportunity to join an investment management platform, a prospective manager should carefully take into account the following considerations
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How Millennials and Gen Z’s make purchasing decisions and what they look for in a brand is shifting. However, we believe that personalization has become increasingly important in today’s society. This requires a different set of tools. The scope of reinvention requires analysis and we hope this research provides some valuable insights
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I was roughly 13 years old when I fell for Nicolas Cage in Valley Girl. Between the Modern English montage of soda sharing and late-night phone calls (on corded phones and pay phones!) and the bitchin’ clothes and slang, my tweenage heart sang just a little for Hollywood punk Randy. In fact, if not for that movie, I doubt the phrases “Tubular!” and “Gag me with a spoon” would have ever made an appearance in my semi-rural Alabama hometown, even if the latter is what Northerners often think out loud when trying grits for the first time
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We are updating our commodity precious metal versus base metal preference as of the end of May 2019 in the shifting trade war world, identifying two stocks we like and explaining why we are taking some profits on Alacer Gold Corp. (ASR Cdn $4.07 as of May 31, 2019 on the TSX). Alacer was our “Best Idea” presented at the Hedge Connection event held on December 3, 2018
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