Adam Bighill rises at 4:45 a.m. most days \u2013 and it\u2019s not just to prepare for the coming season as a linebacker for the Grey Cup champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He\u2019s also answering client e-mails and poring over financial news.<\/p>\n
Besides being one the Canadian Football League\u2019s (CFL) more accomplished defensive players, Mr. Bighill is also an investment advisor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be my career post-football, and for me to start building it now is important,\u201d says the 31-year-old, married father of three young children.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bighill has had an illustrious football career. The 10-year veteran has been awarded the CFL\u2019s Most Outstanding Defensive Player twice and has also won the Grey Cup two times.<\/p>\n
Now, Mr. Bighill has also joined another exclusive group of CFLers \u2013 those working in the investment industry. Hired last year as an advisor at one of Canada\u2019s fastest-growing, independent investment dealers, Wellington-Altus Private Wealth Inc., Mr. Bighill is distinctive even in this respect.<\/p>\n
Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full story originally published on\u00a0The Globe and Mail<\/a>\u00a0on February 3 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adam Bighill rises at 4:45 a.m. most days \u2013 and it\u2019s not just to prepare for the coming season as a linebacker for the Grey Cup champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He\u2019s also answering client e-mails and poring over financial news. Besides being one the Canadian Football League\u2019s (CFL) more accomplished defensive players, Mr. Bighill is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/spiring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}