{"id":835956,"date":"2026-07-30T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835956\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:33:08","slug":"regulators-set-ground-rules-for-selling-foreign-listed-etfs-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835956\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulators set ground rules for selling foreign-listed ETFs in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{614f2aaf-3974-473c-b59f-3469f5cf5a05}{119}\" paraid=\"1133665351\">Order execution-only dealers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthprofessional.ca\/news\/industry-news\/new-survey-shows-what-canadians-want-from-a-fair-investment-landscape\/392821\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">which do not assess suitability<\/a>, drew a softer ask.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{0b9defff-bec3-4acb-b277-443577e7426f}{236}\" paraid=\"1087294165\">Staff encouraged these firms to provide alerts at critical points before a purchase, through pop-up windows, confirmation checkboxes, on-screen text, or oral notice for phone orders, telling investors that the product is a foreign ETF and how it differs from a Canadian one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{614f2aaf-3974-473c-b59f-3469f5cf5a05}{121}\" paraid=\"150107391\">&#8220;The guidance encourages practices that support investors in making more informed decisions when choosing between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthprofessional.ca\/investments\/etfs\/tilting-the-case-toward-active-etfs-for-advisors\/392699\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian and foreign ETFs<\/a>,&#8221; said Stan Magidson, who chairs the CSA and is chair and chief executive officer of the Alberta Securities Commission.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{d9b2d981-00ed-4531-a186-518c35460123}{3}\" paraid=\"513196504\">Andrew Kriegler, president and chief executive officer of CIRO, tied the move to the market&#8217;s size, saying the guidance &#8220;will help ensure that Canadian investors who choose to purchase foreign ETFs have a clear understanding of the products they are investing in.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{614f2aaf-3974-473c-b59f-3469f5cf5a05}{127}\" paraid=\"709764262\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthprofessional.ca\/company-profiles\/canadian-etf-association\/221492\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian ETF Association<\/a> welcomed the guidance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Order execution-only dealers,\u00a0which do not assess suitability, drew a softer ask.\u00a0\u00a0 Staff encouraged these firms to provide alerts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,291632,291631,188893,44],"class_list":["post-835956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-csa-guidance","tag-foreign-etfs","tag-investor-protection","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}