Pros
The York Street office is at a convenient location.
Cons
I could write a list that would rival the length of a thesis paper about the cons. 1. Horrible, below industry average pay. They churn through people and this is the most significant reason why. They have the audacity to tell you that they "research the market" to "keep pay competitive". Keep digging hard enough and you'll always find something online that confirms your bias. This is the kind of salary research they perform. 2. Horrible environment. Festering with nepotism, CI is not a place you want to be if you are actually looking to advance in your career. If you are related to certain people, however, you can come here to be the bully in the sandbox. 3. Horrible business plan. The current CEO has essentially binned the Canadian business and has a sole focus on the debt cow of the American business which solely consists of purchasing individuals RIAs for undisclosed amounts under the guise of being able to eventually "create synergies". The market really has not been buying it. While most companies doubled or tripled their valuations throughout the course of the pandemic, CI took the entire pandemic to reach their prepandemic price. And now they around half of that again. This will probably end up being a rerun of the Sentry buyout (spoiler alert: it was a farce). My fingers hurt from typing so I'll stop here.
