Raquel Iantorno is graduating this month from York University with a bachelor of commerce degree in finance. A member of the dean’s honour roll, she also earned a dean’s award for research excellence. She is precisely the kind of undergrad that Canada’s financial advice industry needs to attract. Sure enough, she joined TD this past February as a part-time customer experience associate.

Iantorno’s report on her award-winning research study was published this month with the support of her project supervisor Daniel Richards, an associate professor at York’s school of administrative studies.

Factors of Employability for Graduates Progressing Through a Career in Financial Planning in Canada comes at a time when too few business and finance graduates give serious consideration to employment in our industry. Plenty of them want to work in financial services. Why more of them don’t target the financial advice business is as important a question as it is complex.

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Ahead of the April 30 tax-filing deadline, some taxpayers and practitioners are facing glitches that could result in overpayment or even stop them from submitting their returns. Michelle Schriver reports on the issues and what the Canada Revenue Agency is doing in response.

A report this week from CIBC World Markets questioned the accuracy of federal population forecasts, warning that they’re too low. That raises the risk that Canada could fall short on future housing and infrastructure needs, James Langton writes.

When markets go topsy-turvy, advisors who proactively communicate with clients are better able to build loyalty — and prevent them from panicking. Noushin Ziafati got the story.

Just ahead of the April 30 tax filing deadline, Michelle Schriver’s compiled a handy list of tax credits and deductions that you may have missed.