Trusted Advisor Solutions™ for Small Business are specific services, not intended to provide comprehensive planning to the client.
For convenience, we have divided the services into 3 catagories -Quicklinks
Factoid -Points of Interest
As of 2004, Statistics Canada reports:
There are over 1,017,440 small businesses in Canada
In 2005, self-employed Canadians totaled over 2.5 million – up from about 2.1 million in 1985. In fact, the self-employed sector accounts for more than 16 per cent of all workers, which is up from 13 per cent in 1989
A survey completed by Manulife Financial in 1998 revealed that:
Three-out-of-four small business owners had not taken adequate steps to protect their personal assets from creditors in the event their business has financial problems
79 per cent of small business owners said they would be interested in an investment product that would protect their mutual fund holdings from creditors
The number of investors in this segment reporting that they had never heard of segregated funds before — 66 per cent
