A confidential monthly benchmark for Canadian independent dealers, run by the Federation. Federation members who take part in the survey panel see the results, and their own firm's figures displayed with the median of firms their size.
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Your firm displayed with firms your size. Each month you see where your firm stands, displayed with the median of dealers of a similar size, on the measures that shape an independent dealer's costs and margins.
A comparison with dealers like you. The figures come from independent dealers only, so you are measured across firms that run the way yours does.
Evidence for the whole channel. Combined, the panel's figures support the Federation's case to regulators when rules fall harder on smaller firms.
A short monthly report. Most answers come from reports your firm already prepares.
No firm's answers are ever shown to another firm. Results appear only as combined figures. A comparison appears only once enough firms have reported that no single firm can be picked out.
Only the Federation and other panel members see the full set of aggregated results. The Federation may only use carefully selected aggregated results to support advocacy initiatives for our dealer members. Everyone accepts a confidentiality agreement the first time they sign in.
Your answers are never sold or given to any affiliate member or outside company.
Your answers are stored in Canada, in two major datacenters: a Federation-controlled server, on an encrypted disk, in one, and encrypted backups in a separate one.
Members sign in through the Federation's member portal with a link sent to the address on file, so there is no password to steal.
Every page travels over an encrypted connection. The site loads nothing from outside services: no advertising and no tracking.
The security of your data has been taken to a very high level and reviewed by the Federation's Board of Directors.
Members may request the Barometer's cybersecurity report from the Federation.
Enter the email address the Federation has on file for you. No password: we send you a link that opens the survey.
Access is by invitation of the Federation. If you believe you should have it and no link arrives, write to the Executive Director.