Advisor's Edge

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Advisor's Edge
Categories Finance, investments, tax, estate planning, financial services
FrequencyBi-monthly
FormatMagazine
Circulation 33,500
Publisher Transcontinental
Founded1998;27 years ago (1998)
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
ISSN 1490-814X
OCLC 300286394

Advisor's Edge is a Canadian magazine for client-facing financial advisors that is published by Transcontinental Media. [1] [2]

Contents

In 2016, Advisor's Edge published six issues. [3] Advisor.ca is updated each business day. [4]

History and profile

Advisor's Edge was founded in June 1998 [5] [6] [7] by Maclean Hunter Publishing, [8] which was part of Rogers Media, a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc. [9] In September 2016, Rogers Media announced it was divesting all its business-to-business publications. [10] On December 1, 2016, Advisor's Edge was acquired by Transcontinental Media. [11] [12] [13]

The readership of Advisor's Edge includes more than 33,500 client-facing investment and financial advisors. [14] Conseiller, sister magazine of Advisor's Edge, reaches francophone financial advisors in Quebec. [15] Conseiller was started in 2000. [14]

Awards

Advisor's Edge has won the following recent awards:

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