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Nov. 29, 2017

Question of the week: What is an exempt market dealer?

Our look at categories of registration continues this week with exempt market dealers. An exempt market dealer is a firm or individual that sells or advises on exempt market produc...

Nov. 22, 2017

Question of the week: What is a scholarship plan dealer?

At the Nova Scotia Securities Commission, we regularly get questions about categories of registration. This includes questions surrounding what the categories are, and what they al...

Nov. 15, 2017

Question of the week: What is SEDAR?

SEDAR stands for System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval. You can see why we needed an acronym. Found online at www.sedar.com, SEDAR is administered by the Canadian S...

Nov. 8, 2017

Question of the week: What is the CSA?

We have mentioned the CSA in some of our older blog posts, but it dawned on us the other day that we’ve never explicitly detailed who and what the CSA is.The Canadian Securities Ad...

Question of the week: What is an exempt market dealer?

Question of the week: What is a scholarship plan dealer?

Question of the week: What is SEDAR?

Question of the week: What is the CSA?

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