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CFLA at Work
OTHER INITIATIVES
The CFLA Future Leaders Initiative –
A Platform for Our Industry’s Next Generation. The Future Leaders Initiative (FLI) was launched to connect and celebrate younger member employees with leadership potential. It gives the next generation of leaders a voice in shaping our industry and will organize professional networking and educational activities.
Research Collaboration with the C.D. Howe Institute – Canada Needs More Robust Capital Investment. A follow up report on last year’s high-profile research collaboration, this new report entitled Thin Capitalization: Weak Business Investment Undermines Canadian Workers by William Robson shows that after years of relatively robust performance, business investment in Canada has slipped ominously. The CFLA supported this report by providing research data and sponsoring a roundtable luncheon which brought together key industry and government stakeholders
to highlight this important issue and formally launch the report.
Research Report – Emergency Funding Programs and the Asset-Based Finance. In
a C.D. Howe Institute research paper entitled Filling the Gap: Emergency Funding Programs and Asset-Based Finance in Times of Economic Crisis, former CFLA CEO & President David Powell argues that in times of economic crisis, the federal government should have in place
a large-scale program for funding asset-
based finance intermediaries. This study was commissioned before the current COVID-19 crisis and offers important lessons as to why the federal government should fund asset- based finance intermediaries who finance customers based on real assets.
CFLA Co-op Programme with Dalhousie University. Through its strategic partnership with Dalhousie University, the CFLA placed a first co-op student with member firm RCAP Leasing/RBC Financial Group, with positive results for both the company and the student.
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