Canadian Classification of Institutional Units and Sectors (CCIUS) 2012

• S1 - Total economy
• S12 - Financial corporations
• S124 - Financial auxiliaries

S1241 - Investment dealers

This major group consists of financial corporations that are engaged in performing a variety of functions in capital markets, of which the principal ones are: underwriting new issues and carrying out their primary distribution; trading-in secondary markets, both as agent and as principal; providing portfolio management services; and, for a limited number of dealers, money market trading. Investment dealers raise most of their funds through short-term bank loans, clients' credit balances and under buy-back arrangements.