Client Profile

Our client base is diverse with younger families to high net-worth couples in their retirement years, along with businesses seeking better returns on their cash positions. Other client types include trusts, and non-profit organizations.

Karl Schempp, Investment Advisor

Karl has been a licensed Investment Advisor since January 2001, and is employed with Union Securities Ltd. providing a wide range of financial services to his clients. He was born and educated in Ontario, and resides in Oakville supporting three active children.

He has invested his personal capital in the equity markets since 1986, and solely and actively traded stocks as a day trader for over a year and a half. He has garnered much experience and knowledge on how stocks and equity markets generally behave. His trading experience has provided him an insight into the various forces that act on stock prices, and an appreciation of technical factors that influence future stock price movements.

Finally, in investing in corporate securities, he has learned the need to interpret fundamental financial information on those corporations, the need to understand the corporations’ potential success and/or financial growth, and how this relates to the current market’s valuation of those corporations.

His education includes holding a Computer Systems Technology Diploma with honours and completing the following courses from the Canadian Securities Institute:

• Canadian Securities Course (with honours), [requirement] & Conduct and Practices Course (with honours), [requirement]
• Derivatives and Fundamentals Course
• Options Licensing Course
• Professional Financial Planning Course