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The McDonald Group

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Our integrated approach is built around four key pillars. It all starts with understanding you, your goals and your values, which are supported by our customized services and expert guidance that keeps you moving forward. Together with our partners, we offer a range of specialized services.

 

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Investment management

Benefit from rigour and discipline through market cycles with a suite of investment solutions aligned to your goals.

  • Discretionary and managed portfolios
  • Full-service investment advisory
  • Exclusive and customized capital markets solutions
  • Cross-border investment counsel
  • Self-directed investing
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Private banking

Experience sophisticated banking expertise and services that deliver your unique financial vision and strategy.

  • Full-service banking with a dedicated team
  • Multi-currency credit solutions
  • Cash and liquidity solutions
  • Cross-border banking solutions
  • Financial fluency for the next generation
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Wealth planning

Access specialized expertise to structure, preserve and optimize your wealth.

  • Retirement and cash flow planning
  • Tax and estate advisory
  • Strategic philanthropy
  • Business succession and family enterprise planning
  • Planning for multi-generational wealth transfer
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Estate and trust

Access solutions for some of life's most significant decisions and shape your lasting legacy.

  • Professional executor and trust administration
  • Executor and power of attorney appointments
  • Agent for estate, trust and power of attorney
  • Insurance counsel and solutions

Our Approach to Prudent Investment Management

1. The Big Picture: Long-Term Perspective & Forward-Thinking Strategy

Financial markets can feel overwhelming; news, social media, and endless market updates create a constant stream of noise, making it hard to know what truly matters.

That’s why we take a disciplined, long-term approach to investing, focusing on structural market conditions and broader financial dynamics. This allows us to help you grow and protect your wealth over time and not fall into a trap of emotional decision-making or behavioral bias that harms your family’s wealth.

By keeping a long-term, forward-looking perspective, we identify emerging opportunities and invest in areas of innovation and progress. We spend significant time analyzing research and market trends to ensure your investments remain relevant, resilient, and positioned for long-term success.

2. Consistency: Aligning Investments with Your Goals

The protection and creation of wealth is done through the careful design and management of a wealth strategy. A successful wealth strategy should maintain alignment between:  your goals > your risk tolerances > your investment portfolio.

These three elements are defined through financial planning, a process where we gather a deep understanding of you, your current circumstances and your future goals. Your investment strategy is personalized to help you grow from your current circumstances and accomplish your goals, with confidence.

Before making investment decisions, we maintain this alignment by asking ourselves: "What is this client trying to achieve, and does this investment help them get there?"

Every investor is different, so every portfolio should be, too. Our approach ensures your investments are:

  • Tailored to your specific needs and goals
  • Comfortable for you and within the level of your risk tolerance
  • Prudently researched, analyzed, and aligned with the scope of your wealth strategy

3. Intentional Diversification: Prudently Balancing Risk and Opportunity

Diversification is essential, but how you diversify matters. We use intentional diversification, carefully selecting individual securities in industries that offer the best opportunities. This gives us the flexibility to:

  • Invest in strong sectors based on economic cycles and long-term trends
  • Align investments with your financial goals and market conditions
  • Proactively adjust portfolios to stay on track

This active and strategic approach ensures you're not aimlessly following the market - you're investing with purpose.

4. Keeping It Simple: The Ultimate Sophistication

We believe in simplicity and transparency so you feel more confident and in control of your investments. That's why we focus on:

  • Direct ownership of individual securities for greater liquidity and risk management
  • A clear, process-driven strategy that delivers consistent, long-term results
  • Transparent reviews that show the real impact of your investments.

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

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CIBC Private Wealth” consists of services provided by CIBC and certain of its subsidiaries through CIBC Private Banking; CIBC Private Investment Counsel, a division of CIBC Asset Management Inc. (“CAM”); CIBC Trust Corporation; and CIBC Wood Gundy, a division of CIBC World Markets Inc. (“WMI”). CIBC Private Banking provides solutions from CIBC Investor Services Inc. (“ISI”), CAM and credit products. CIBC Private Wealth services are available to qualified individuals. Insurance services are only available through CIBC Wood Gundy Financial Services Inc. In Quebec, insurance services are only available through CIBC Wood Gundy Financial Services (Quebec) Inc.


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