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Local financial expert discusses the possibility of a recession – DiscoverMooseJaw.com

There has been speculation as to whether we are going through a recession, or headed into one right away.

Financial expert, Aaron Ruston from Purposed Financial, has valuable information on recessions and how people can protect their money.

“A recession is a place where for two straight quarters, there is a decrease in economic growth within a country, sector, or even a global base overall,” Ruston remarked.

As a result, interest rates climb, production of goods declines, people lose their jobs, and economic growth slows or returns down, which brings about concern in the market.

Interest rates hit a four-decade

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Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance: Barbara Roper

Barbara Roper

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Barbara Roper is finding that her post at the Securities and Exchange Commission offers a good opportunity to improve conditions for the typical investor.

A leading spokesperson on investor-protection issues, Roper, 67, worried about taking the role of senior adviser to the chair at the SEC. But she did so in 2021, and last year relocated to Washington, DC, from Colorado to work from the regulatory agency’s headquarters.

The “eclectic role” offers opportunities to share her expertise “on a variety of issues” relating to retail investor protection, says Roper, who previously served

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Canada Life purchases wealth manager IPC from sister company IGM Financial

Canada Life Assurance Co. – a subsidiary of Great-West Life – will purchase Investment Planning Counsel for $575-million in an all-cash deal from its sister company IGM Financial.

IGM Financial Inc. IGM-T and Great-West Lifeco Inc. GWO-T have struck a deal that will see independent wealth manager Investment Planning Counsel Inc. change hands while IGM snaps up a 20.5-per-cent stake in US giant Rockefeller Capital Management.

The deal, which was announced on Monday, will see Canada Life Assurance Co. – a subsidiary of Great-West Life – purchase Investment Planning Counsel for $575-million in an all-cash deal from its sister company

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Top Republican takes on the Biden administration over new energy rules for mobile homes

Mon. Tim Scott (R-SC) is asking the Biden administration to delay new energy standards for mobile homes set to go into effect at the end of next month.

In a new letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm given exclusively to Yahoo Finance, Scott said “this costly and misguided regulation” will squeeze low-income Americans who will be “unfairly asked to bear the costs imposed by climate alarmists.”

The new rules require more insulation and energy-efficient windows, changes that will increase the costs of building the homes. But they will also save Americans hundreds of dollars on their electricity bills while also

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NYPD Can ‘Probably Solve a Bunch of Cold Cases’ (Video)

Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump faces his arrangement on Tuesday, and when he arrives at the police station, he will reportedly have to provide a DNA sample. And once the NYPD did that, Roy Wood Jr. suspects a handful of other cases might get solved.

Wood kicked off his week of guest hosting “The Daily Show” on Monday, and naturally, he had some fun with the news of Trump’s indictment. Although he was criticized the fact that Trump is being arraigned “like he’s a normal person,” Wood couldn’t help but be delighted by the fact that he’ll still have to

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Is Banco Do Brasil (BDORY) Stock Outpacing Its Finance Peers This Year?

The Finance group has plenty of great stocks, but investors should always be looking for companies that are outperforming their peers. Is Banco Do Brasil SA (BDORY) one of those stocks right now? A quick glance at the company’s year-to-date performance in comparison to the rest of the Finance sector should help us answer this question.

Banco Do Brasil SA is one of 866 companies in the Finance group. The Finance group currently sits at #12 within the Zacks Sector Rank. The Zacks Sector Rank gauges the strength of our 16 individual sector groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank

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More Financial Advisors in Ontario to Have Their Credentials Officially Approved

The New Self-Regulatory Organization of Canada express intent to
become Credentialing Body

TORONTO, March 27, 2023 /CNW/ – The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of ont (FSRA) and the New Self-Regulatory Organization of Canada (New SRO) are working on how the New SRO can become a credentialing body for financial advisors under the FSRA’s Financial Professionals Title Protection Framework.

FSRA logo (CNW Group/Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario)

FSRA logo (CNW Group/Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario)

If agreed, the New SRO will have the authority to grant credential(s) that permit the use of the ‘Financial Advisor’ title in ont under Ontario’s Financial Professionals Title Protection Act, 2019 (FPTPA).

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UK finance minister, Bank of England governor in contact over Credit Suisse – source

LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey are in regular contact this weekend over the fate of Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN.S), according to a source with knowledge of the matter.

UBS Group AG (UBSG.S) is mulling a takeover of its embattled Swiss rival Credit Suisse, other sources told Reuters on Saturday, amid a crisis of confidence in the bank that risks destabilizing the global financial system.

A spokesperson for the Treasury declined to comment. A spokesperson for the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority, which oversees lenders, declined to

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