In this episode, Ellen Bessner and Brendan Monahan dig into one of the biggest barriers to effective financial planning: lack of communication between investors and advisors. Both sides often avoid reaching out — investors don't want to "bother" their advisor, and advisors worry about appearing intrusive.

Investors should proactively communicate life changes to their financial service providers.

In this episode of the Financial Prosperity Podcast, Ellen Bessner and guest Bryan Borzykowski* explore one of the most overlooked drivers of successful financial planning: whether your financial advisor truly cares. They unpack why money is emotional, how poor communication increases financial stress, and why investors — especially entrepreneurs and sole earners — need advisors who combine technical expertise with empathy and emotional intelligence.

This episode of The Financial Prosperity Podcast focuses on one of the most searched financial topics: how to choose a financial advisor. Ellen Bessner and Brendan Monahan walk listeners through how to find a qualified, registered advisor or portfolio manager, and how advisors can ensure they're working with clients who genuinely fit their practice.

In this episode, Ellen Bessner and Brendan Monahan explore one of the most influential — and overlooked — elements of financial literacy: your relationship with money. They break down how childhood experiences, habits, fears, and beliefs shape the way adults save, spend, invest, and plan for the future.

The Planning Gap, with Shannon Lee Simmons. This episode focuses on the gab between having a financial plan and implementing it...

This episode tackles the "shame game" in personal finance, exploring how investors can avoid feeling ashamed about their financial situation and how financial service providers can approach clients without triggering feelings of shame or inadequacy.

Do you remember the scene in the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy steps out of her door and the world is transformed from monochrome to brilliant full colour?

In this episode, Ellen Bessner and Brendan Monahan dig into one of the biggest barriers to effective financial planning: lack of communication between investors and advisors.

For International Women's Day yesterday, I decided revive my tradition of creating a celebratory collage of all the fabulous women I work with, to post to our social media accounts.

The OSC plans to provide an update on its progress in one year.

Uncertain times give advisors, portfolio managers, insurance agents and planners an opportunity to shine with clients and prospects. In my last article, I explained a 5 step approach to help clients through difficult times.

CIRO's 2023-2024 Enforcement Report provides an overview of the enforcement trends and sanction guidelines from the last year and highlights the Enforcement team's efforts to standardize proceedings amongst...

In our October 16, 2017 blog post, we summarized a decision by Justice Epstein of the Ontario Court of Appeal (in chambers), in Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corporation...

In 2021, I predicted that CIRO would begin auditing Canadian dealers to ensure proper supervision and controls over remote work.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on the way we all live and work. In this week's blog, our lawyers share some of the challenges – and rewards – of conducting a law practice...

In a decision released last Thursday, January 25, 2018, the Ontario Court of Appeal considered for the first time the definition of a "person in a special relationship with an issuer" as it applies to successive tippees who possess inside information.

The Law Times recently wrote an article about a case in which a woman who alleged she had been assaulted and sexually harassed in the workplace was granted limited intervenor status in the perpetrator's ensuing wrongful dismissal claim.

A closer look at CIRO's enforcement trends identifies issues affecting registrants that remain unanswered...

I'll admit that I kind of love generic corporate art – massive abstract paintings in hotel lobbies, huge and vaguely unsettling sculpture pieces outside bank towers. But here at the Babin Bessner...