Services that go beyond investing

Backed by the national resources of RBC Dominion Securities Inc., Michael Skochinski is pleased to offer you a wide range of investment and wealth management services. 

Discovery

  • Explore your current financial situation, portfolio and investment objectives
  • Establish your investment and wealth management goals
  • Determine your tolerance for risk and market fluctuation

Strategy

  • Develop your individual Investment Policy Statement
  • Build customized portfolios designed to meet your investment goals
  • Establish your needs for tax, estate, insurance and charitable gift planning
  • Provide research, commentary and information on specific holdings, markets or economies
  • Collaborate with your existing professional advisors, such as lawyers and accountants, to integrate your investment plans
  • Introduce, as appropriate, a full suite of services from our RBC partners

Enhanced wealth management services

  • Specialists in financial planning, estate law and taxation
  • Comprehensive financial planning
  • myGPS™ Wealth Management Opportunities Report
  • Will and estate consulting
  • Insurance-based wealth enhancement assessment
  • Business succession planning
  • Corporate re-organization advice
  • Family wealth management

Investment solutions

  • Proprietary and third-party investment products, including mutual funds and portfolio services
  • Global and North American equities, including stocks, preferred shares, income trusts and more
  • Canada’s largest inventory of fixed-income and money market instruments, including T-bills, GICs, government bonds and corporate bonds

 

Investment portfolio services

  • Ongoing personal advice
  • Buy/sell recommendations
  • Scheduled portfolio reviews
  • Portfolio monitoring
  • Portfolio rebalancing
  • Safekeeping
  • Multi-currency, non-registered account functionality
  • Automatic contributions and withdrawals, if needed
  • Automatic mutual fund purchase or redemption plans
  • Interest on cash balances
  • Electronic funds transfers
  • Registered estate processing, tax reporting and T3 returns
  • Old certificate current status and value research

Reporting

  • WM Online private client website, providing secure 24/7 account access, exclusive investment research, quarterly market outlook, RBC Economics publications, Reuters market news, real-time quotes, customized Watchlists and more.
  • Consolidated view of all your RBC accounts and ability to transfer funds between accounts through DS Online
  • Quarterly account statements (or monthly when there is trading activity in an account).
  • Paperless eDocuments through WM Online to reduce your paperwork and help us help the environment, including a seven-year archive.
  • Annual consolidated tax reporting, including dispositions with book costs.
  • Quarterly performance reporting.