With lackluster returns, record high redemptions, and even OSC investigations, the mutual fund industry has received its share of public impeachment. Mutual funds may not be the shining stars they once were during the 90’s, but does an entire industry deserve to be targeted?

Teachers’ Private Capital, the private equity arm of the $79-billion Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, has win this year’s ‘Deal of the Year’ award for its investment in Yellow Pages Group.

mothering ’n more! inc., a Canadian company that provides parents with education, preparation and support, has launched Parents At Work, a new program that addresses the needs of busy, working parents.

Wellington West Capital Inc. of Winnipeg and Harris Partners Ltd. of Toronto have agreed to forge a union and create an Institutional Trading Division that will see the new Harris Partners become Wellington West Capital Markets Inc.

Canadian Quotation and Trade Reporting System Inc. (CNQ) reports that it has completed its first full year of operation with several consecutive months of increased trading activity.

A committed group of Scotiabank women have spent the last few months pounding the pavement in training for the Washington Marine Corps Marathon in October.

by Lesley Byrne

On September 11 2001, a journalist rushing to deadline hustled into the downtown head office of a major Canadian bank’s investment operation located at King and Bay Streets in downtown Toronto.

by Al Emid

Seventy percent of companies are or will be engaged in Mergers or Acquisitions within next 12 months, reports a global survey.

Amid signs of continuing economic growth in Canada, organizations are moving away from many of the cost-cutting measures they had put in place during more challenging economic times.

Chief financial officers burning the midnight oil are seeking a little relief. In a new survey, 33 per cent of CFOs said if they could change one thing about their current position, they would work fewer hours.