About us

Our mission is to protect the public by ensuring the integrity and professionalism of financial services advisors. The CSF is a self-regulatory body established by law to oversee its members’ training, ethics and discipline. It is multidisciplinary, meaning that it oversees advisors who practice in more than one industry. This feature is unique to the Quebec system.

The CSF

The mission of the Chambre de la sécurité financière is to protect the public by ensuring its members’ integrity and professionalism. As such, it oversees the professional development, ethics and discipline of advisors, many of whom practice in more than one discipline related to personal finance. This model for multidisciplinary supervision, unique in Canada, enables the CSF to provide optimal oversight of professionals.

Members of the CSF

The Chambre de la sécurité financière brings together 34,000 personal financial advisors around a shared commitment: to put their clients’ interests first. These professionals are subject to mandatory professional development requirements, are accountable for their actions, and must act in compliance with a strict code of professional conduct. Their obligations reflect the high level of competence and integrity expected in their practice.

Governance

Learn about the teams who help the CSF fulfill its mission to protect the public with effectiveness and transparency. They include the Board of Directors, who perform their duties with the support of three standing committees and two advisory committees. The Board oversees the activities of the entire CSF and management team, who work collaboratively to achieve strategic objectives and implement action plans.

Annual reports

The annual reports of the Chambre de la sécurité financière go beyond a simple financial statement. They provide an overview of the year’s activities: our achievements, strategic initiatives and efforts to protect the public. They document our tangible actions to support the professionalism of our members while ensuring compliance with ethical rules.

FAQ

The CSF oversees its members (advisors), while the AMF oversees organizations. The AMF is mandated by the Quebec government to regulate Quebec’s financial sector and provide assistance to consumers of financial products and services. The AMF provides oversight in the fields of insurance, securities, derivatives, deposit institutions—except banks—and the distribution of financial products and services. It also ensures that the CSF operates in compliance with its mission to protect the public.

The CSF oversees professionals who advise Quebecers in matters of savings, mutual funds, life and health insurance, and financial planning. Its role is different from that of the CIRO, a Canada-wide organization that provides oversight of all investment dealers and mutual fund dealers in the country. This organization also monitors all transactions that these dealers carry out on the equity securities and debt securities markets in Canada.

Strictly speaking, the CSF is not a professional order, but just like the 46 professional orders in Quebec, its primary mission is to protect the public and it must ensure that its members provide services that meet the profession’s standards for quality and integrity.

The CSF trains and oversees some 34,000 members across the province. These professionals are representatives of mutual fund dealers, financial planners, financial security advisors, group insurance and annuity advisors, as well as scholarship plan dealers.

Professionals duly authorized by the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) to practice in the fields of expertise regulated by the CSF are automatically members of the CSF. A registry maintained by the AMF allows you to verify if an individual or company is authorized to do business in the financial products and services sector.

To access the register, click here.