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By MoneySense Staff on January 1, 2010
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RRSP Q&A: Are Canadians protected if iShares goes under?

By MoneySense Staff on January 1, 2010
Estimated reading time: 1 minute

Answers to your RRSP questions.

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From February 16 to 19, 2010, MoneySense.ca’s top financial planners are answering your RRSP questions. For the full list of questions answered — or to submit a question of your own — click here. In the U.K., the investment company which manages iShares’ ETF’s is based in Ireland and (apparently) investors are not protected under U.K. regulation if iShares went bust. Are Canadian investors in iShares ETFs protected, and if so, to what level? —Pete Notter Warren Mackenzie and Ken Hawkins: iShares assets are held in a custodian account, separate from the management company’s assets, which is BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited (“BlackRock”). If Blackrock goes bankrupt the underlying assets of a iShare unit are protected. The iShares can not go bankrupt, even if the management company does. Next question: I’m 69 — should I put money from house sale in RRSP? Back to main RRSP Q&A page. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

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