Need a new CIBC Imperial Service Advisor
Is anyone on this forum a CIBC Imperial Service Advisor? I currently have the service but my rep isn't very good so looking to switch. Thanks.
Need a new CIBC Imperial Service Advisor
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- moofur [OP]
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- OhHiThere
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Not an advisor, but familiar with the program from past experience and research.
If you’re dealing with someone at a local branch currently and comfortable with doing everything by phone/email, call the main line and ask to be transferred to Imperial Service Direct. This is a group managed by head office, and as a whole I suspect they have more experience than the branch-based advisors.
That said, don’t get your hopes up. Yes they are advisors, but they’re still mainly there to keep you with the bank and sell more CIBC products. And it’s common for clients to be reassigned frequently whether due to staff changes or to rebalance client loads.
If you want/need true unbiased financial advice, look into independent fee-only financial planners. It will cost you a bit upfront, but you can be confident they won’t be trying to steer you into bad products in order to meet their targets.
If you’re dealing with someone at a local branch currently and comfortable with doing everything by phone/email, call the main line and ask to be transferred to Imperial Service Direct. This is a group managed by head office, and as a whole I suspect they have more experience than the branch-based advisors.
That said, don’t get your hopes up. Yes they are advisors, but they’re still mainly there to keep you with the bank and sell more CIBC products. And it’s common for clients to be reassigned frequently whether due to staff changes or to rebalance client loads.
If you want/need true unbiased financial advice, look into independent fee-only financial planners. It will cost you a bit upfront, but you can be confident they won’t be trying to steer you into bad products in order to meet their targets.
- moofur [OP]
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Thanks. I had a really good advisor before and frankly I don't need someone to help me manage my funds. I know exactly what I need and what accomplished and mainly just looking for someone who is responsive and knows what they're doing, which is not what I'm currently getting.OhHiThere wrote: ↑ Not an advisor, but familiar with the program from past experience and research.
If you’re dealing with someone at a local branch currently and comfortable with doing everything by phone/email, call the main line and ask to be transferred to Imperial Service Direct. This is a group managed by head office, and as a whole I suspect they have more experience than the branch-based advisors.
That said, don’t get your hopes up. Yes they are advisors, but they’re still mainly there to keep you with the bank and sell more CIBC products. And it’s common for clients to be reassigned frequently whether due to staff changes or to rebalance client loads.
If you want/need true unbiased financial advice, look into independent fee-only financial planners. It will cost you a bit upfront, but you can be confident they won’t be trying to steer you into bad products in order to meet their targets.
- will888
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If you are relatively self sufficient, switch to investors edge and go solo. Branch level advisors are merely sales staff.
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- moofur [OP]
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I need someone to process mortgage applications and get me good rates for my investment properties, expand/reduce my HELOC limit from time to time amongst other things, so it’s not really the investments. As a matter of fact I have no investments at CIBC.
- cba123
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You can still have an Imperial Service advisor while also having Investors Edge accounts.
I have both an Imperial Service advisor and a Premium Edge contact. In fact, my Imperial Service advisor was the one we helped arrange for my Premium Edge, as you cannot enrol yourself.
Imperial Service advisors are not the same as the regular branch advisors or sales staff.
Mine previous advisor had access to additional planning tools. My current advisor has access to similar, but different planning tools. I use mine as additional sanity check. I don't hold a single mutual fund and hold individual stocks.
I have both an Imperial Service advisor and a Premium Edge contact. In fact, my Imperial Service advisor was the one we helped arrange for my Premium Edge, as you cannot enrol yourself.
Imperial Service advisors are not the same as the regular branch advisors or sales staff.
Mine previous advisor had access to additional planning tools. My current advisor has access to similar, but different planning tools. I use mine as additional sanity check. I don't hold a single mutual fund and hold individual stocks.
- KanataKG
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Well, considering Imperial Service Financial Advisors are mutual fund salespeople at the core, it's going to be hard to find one willing to spend their time helping you out with non-investment products and services.
When the vast majority of their pay cheque and performance bonus comes from mutual fund sales, it doesn't make sense to spend a whole lot of time on HELOCs and such. Any advisor who does these things for their clients is doing it in hopes of continued/future investment.
"Experienced" advisors with a large client base probably have 1 or 2 assistants who process transactions and open accounts / handle mortgages for them, while they focus on meeting new clients and selling more funds
- moofur [OP]
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And this is exactly why the big 5's banking model is so old and outdated. They really should think outside of mutual funds when the trend is towards low cost investing unless you're severely high net worth and require more complex personalized investing advice.
Thanks everyone for the feedback so far but I guess there isn't anyone who has a contact that would do this?
Thanks everyone for the feedback so far but I guess there isn't anyone who has a contact that would do this?
- cba123
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Afaik, the advisors are still tied to the branch they are based out of, so you will need to ask for another advisor at your branch, or at a nearby branch.
- will888
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I thought you needed a mutual fund salesperson. What is your locale? I have had the same imperial service advisor for more than 2 decades. She's very good for everything except investments which I do on my own.
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- cba123
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CIBC is the only bank to offer this service. Imperial Service advisors are dually employed with both CIBC to offer/support CIBC products (banking, loans, mortgages, credit cards, bank GICs and bank mutual funds) and CIBC Investor Service Inc to offer/support Imperial Service branded brokerage accounts. They can place any type of transaction (stocks, options, fixed income, third party mutual funds, etc) for you in your Imperial Service trading account, but they cannot offer you any specific stock advice (you would need a full service broker to get advice), and their commissions are a crappy 29.95 for equities.
- will888
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I believe that advisors are territorial and stealing clients from other branches is generally frowned upon.
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- cba123
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so unless the OP is located near you, your rep may not help them.
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- Kiraly
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CIBC needs to get a new name for this service. “Imperial” in 2021?
- moofur [OP]
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- retireyoung55
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Need to change their business model, imutual funds are so 1990. They don't even have their own robo-advisor service yet.
- will888
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I bank out of the Pickering branch, so if you are in the southeast part of York Region, it is an option. Visits to the branch are not that frequent. I use phone and email 99% of the time.
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Not really anymore. It’s just CIBC now. Who still spells out the whole four words? TD has banks in the USA and most of its customers there have no idea that the T stands for Toronto or D for dominion.restartRFD wrote: ↑ It's literally in their name
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