Brad Compton Email & Phone Number

Halifax, Canada Area

I take the time to listen to my clients' wants and needs which not only allows me to build a comprehensive, personalized financial plan, but more importantly it allows me to provide my clients with peace of mind. I consider my biggest responsibility to be managing my clients' risk and I invest their money as if it were my own. This will ultimately allow.

Halifax, Canada Area

• Providing wealth management for high net worth individuals and corporations. Responsible for business development and growing assets under management. IIROC and Insurance licensed.Key Projects and Achievements:
• Responsible for creating complex financial plans for clients as well as investment recommendations.
• Construction of investment portfolios for clients using tax efficient risk mitigation strategies.
• Ongoing portfolio management and rebalancing.

• A mortgage agent and shareholder of Canada’s largest independent mortgage brokerage. Responsible for residential and commercial mortgage origination as well as credit analysis. Providing clients with the right mortgage.
• Responsible for doubling sales in a declining mortgage activity year.
• Over 70% retention rate for clientele - capturing future renewals and refinances.
• Developed comprehensive branding and on-line marketing campaigns, including website development and social media presence.
• Organized several educational presentations and seminars for possible clients and key referral sources generating product/brand awareness and driving sales.
• Grew additional revenue streams such as mortgage insurance and a robust mortgage aftercare program to aid clients in paying down their mortgage.

• Provided analytics for retail and institutional sales force to highlight sales opportunities through financial modelling and analytics. Worked directly with the executive team to provide strategic analytics and.
• Led the 2005 corporate budgeting and planning process for the retail and institutional divisions.
• Developed complex financial models to price Institutional deals as well as determine the profitability of Fidelity’s institutional relationships.
• Performed Industry and competitive analysis to determine product and sales opportunities for Fidelity.
• Completed a detailed analysis of Fidelity’s retail and institutional clients to determine trends or characteristics to aid in the selling process.
• Developed several ongoing reports and coaching tools used by Regional Vice Presidents to aid in the sales process.

• A start-up global financial services provider, specializing in trade finance processing for globally recognized financial institutions. Created detailed financial models to determine the timing and magnitude of.
• Modelled the company’s technology (hardware & software) requirements for various growth scenarios and integrated the results in the forecasting/budgeting models I built for the company.
• Determine the funding required from shareholder banks through complex financial modelling.
• Successfully developed the original pricing structure for the global product offering and aided in the development of the product definitions as well as several bundling scenarios to facilitate client acquisitions..
• Performed an analysis of the company’s product offering strategy through a detailed analysis of its cost structure and operations productivity, resulting in the revision of the global product offering.

• A Canadian Telecom start-up. Initiated the development and subsequently managed the corporate valuation model for the Investor Relations Department for use in issuing guidance to the Equity and High Yield Analysts.
• Created complex corporate valuation models to determine Group Telecom’s ability to meet their debt obligations and the resulting effect on pro-forma cash flows.
• Provided guidance to the Executive Team and external Investment and High Yield Analysts.

An independent financial advisory firm specializing in energy projects primarily in North America. Responsible for reviewing and researching requests for capital as well as performing due diligence and developing financial models for various financing deals.

• A leading publicly traded energy transportation and Distribution Company with operations internationally. Researched and modelled various utilities in the North Eastern United States to find attractive candidates to.
• Valued several U.S. utilities through detailed cash flow modeling resulting in determining the appropriate premium to be paid and the financial synergies that could be realized through a merger or acquisition.
• Created the model, performed financial analysis and presented results on the purchase of a regional gas distributor resulting in the project being deemed unfeasible.
• Participated in the valuation of several ancillary programs in order to sell to various subsidiaries through unbundling, and prepared an Investment portfolio valuation to be filed with the Ontario Energy Board.
• Developed a 10-year forecasting model to forecast future cash flows for a subsidiary of Enbridge Inc.

Bachelor Of Commerce, Finance

Canadian Securities Cours, Financial Planning And Services

Conduct And Practices Handbook, Financial Planning And Services

Engineering