Thank you to all who attended last Monday September 25th reception. During our panel, Mchel Champagne and Réjean Nguyen provided insights on their respective institution’s approach towards the review of the governance of companies in their portfolio. They shared their expectations and reaffirmed the importance of aiming for best practices (in terms of board composition,…
Québec Bourse has submitted its comments to the Canadian Securities Administrators public consultation aiming at reducing the regulatory burden for public companies. It is essential to have a close look at the current regulatory framework and the relevance and appropriateness of all the requirements. There is a significant imbalance between the regulatory burden, compliance costs…
It is in front of a full room that Claude Séguin and Louis Gendron, our two panelists, have delivered their testimonies on the importance of Québec based public companies on the province’s economy. The key elements brought up by our panelists included: Québec based public companies are significant agents of economic development; Shares of Québec…
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published yesterday CSA Consultation Paper 51-404 Considerations for reducing regulatory burden for non-investment fund reporting issuers. Québec Bourse is pleased with the announcement. The CSA initiative falls directly within the mission and objectives of Québec Bourse. The results of a survey carried by CROP on our behalf during the fall…
Québec-based listed companies play a key role in the Province’s economy in terms of direct and indirect jobs (often high level jobs), social and caritative involment and the significant impact on professional service providers. However in recent years, few companies are accessing the public market while some listed companies are privatized or sold. What are…
Québec Bourse hosted on March 23rd, 2017 its annual meeting at Espace CDPQ. The meeting was followed by an outstanding panel discussion during which Leon Aghazarian from National Bank Financial and Nicolas Chevalier from Pembroke Management shared with the numerous attendees, their comments, observations and recommendations to increase the efficiency of interactions between sell-side analysts,…
Interactions between sell-side analysts, portfolio managers and public company management is a topic of interest for you? Join us on March 23, 2017 for our next 5 à 7. With different perspectives but common grounds, sell-side analysts, portfolio managers and listed company managements interactions may lead to misunderstandings from all sides. Every thing is not…
TSX and TSXV have published on December 20, 2016 a request for comments with respect to the insider trading marker summary report that TSX and TSXV are required to published daily (requirements arising from regulatory authorities decisons). Concerns have been raised by market participants and investing relating to the possible usage of informations contained in…
An event organized jointly by Québec Bourse and CIRI Québec. It’s now time to consider what 2017 will bring us. Join us in reviewing the trends and the economic outlook for 2017 in the company of our expert ! Vincent Delisle leads Scotiabank’s portfolio and quantitative strategy team. The team provides asset mix and global…
Compliance rules and business practices are the topics that we discussed during the breakfast meeting. In a full room, our three panelists presented the ruled imposed by the regulator and described the environment in which financial adviser are working todays as well as the challenges they are facing. Amongst the topics discussed, we note the…
