The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) recently published its
Statement of Priorities for 2018-2019, which is intended to
identify priority areas on which the OSC will focus during the
current fiscal year (April 1 – March 31). In that context,
the Statement of Priorities may offer stakeholders some insight
into areas – new and continuing from past years – of
particular current interest to the OSC. This year's Statement
of Priorities confirms the OSC is continuing to pursue a number of
initiatives that have received mixed reaction from various market
participants.
Priorities for 2018-2019
The specific priorities for 2018-2019 are influenced by a number
of broader issues identified by the OSC as impacting capital
markets, including (i) changing investor demographics, (ii) the
growing importance of investor education given the increasingly
complex and diverse investment product mix, (iii) increasing
globalization of capital markets and the effect of
