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Credential Asset Management to pay $600,000 in fines

By Kate McCaffery | Dec. 14, 2021, 10 a.m.

Two regulators have both entered into settlement agreements with Vancouver-based Credential Asset Management over the firm’s past internal dealer incentive and sales practices.

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