We would like to inform you that the “Annual Review of Professional Activities” (“ARPA”) questionnaire will be available on Thursday, February 8, 2024 on the Investia Advisor Centre for online completion. 

We remind you that the completion of the ARPA questionnaire is mandatory and that it allows our team to ensure that your National Registration Database (“NRD”) records remain up to date and accessible for the applicable provincial securities commissions and CIRO.

Furthermore, as mentioned during our January Water Cooler, the ARPA questionnaire has been enhanced to include broader questions on growth, business and succession planning as well as IT and cybersecurity. With the addition of these questions, the goal is to get a better understanding of our advisors’ practice and focus our support initiatives to better fit advisors’ needs.

To access the ARPA questionnaire, please log into the Investia Advisor Centre and click on the “ARPA Survey” icon on the home page:

Important considerations

• The questionnaire covers January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 and must be completed by all registered individuals (Representatives, Branch Managers, Alternate Branch Managers, Associate Advisors, Junior Advisors and Licensed Assistants), with or without a book of business, except for those who joined Investia after September 30, 2023.
  
  
• Your questionnaire must be completed and submitted by March 15, 2024.
  
  
• You must complete the questionnaire using your own primary representative code. Note that licensed assistants have their own primary codes.
  
  
• Please answer all the questions in each section of the questionnaire.
  
  
• If you submitted an outside activity approval request during the last five years and received an email confirming its approval, please do not complete another “Outside Activity Approval Form”.
  
  
• All your “Outside Activity Approval Forms”, as well as any other required documents, must be sent to Investia at arpa@investia.ca for review no later than March 15, 2024.
  
  
• After completing the questionnaire, you will be redirected to the Advisor Centre. You may print a copy of the questionnaire in PDF format for your files. Note that you will no longer be able to access the questionnaire once submitted.

IMPORTANT: If we have not received your questionnaire by March 15, 2024, you may be charged a penalty.

Reminder
As a reminder, if your user access to the Advisor Centre is inactive, you can reactivate the status by contacting Client Services.

Should you require any information, please do not hesitate to contact our Client Service Department, by email at investia@investia.ca, by phone at 1-888-684-5548 or via the chatbot feature on the Advisor Centre.