In summary, I opened up accounts at Manulife Financial at the 1075 West Georgia location in Vancouver back in 2006. At the time, I had purchased some private shares for a BC VCC called MVP on the direction of one of the financial advisors of Manulife. The strategy proposed to me was that after waiting 2 yrs to become capital gain exempt and the shares had a lift in price, I could swap out shares for RRSP tax free. The main point is that my primary RRSP accounts have traditionally been with RBC. However, RBC only allows for up to 25% of... read full review »