The “Big Five” Canadian banks offer investment funds and include Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank (TD Canada Trust), Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Let’s explore the best place for you to invest.
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Six big retirement mistakes – what I’m doing about them Feb 14th
Save, invest, prosper with My Own Advisor.
Six big retirement mistakes – what I’m doing about them Recently Jason Heath, a fee-only financial planner, outlined a number of mistakes investors make when it comes to retirement planning and/or investing during retirement. I thought I’d outli.... More »
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BCE Inc. is now estimating its full-year adjusted earnings per share will be no higher than $3.40 per share, which is below the low end of its previous estimate issued in February.
The path to real estate bubble panic
– macleans.ca
Canada’s red hot housing market—fuelled primarily by soaring prices first in Vancouver, and now in Toronto—has drawn many a bubble warning from some real estate watchers. But there were others who once talked down bubble fears. However with prices in Canada’s largest city climbing at more than 25 per cent a year, bubble warnings have surged too.
We track the observations of economists, politicians and regulators as they watched Canadian house prices heat up over the past few years and finally become so hot in Toronto that officials at all levels of government have scrambled to intervene in an attempt to cool it off.
The emojis in the graph represent the various stages of bubble anxiety—from calm to frantic—for the six individuals we looked at. Tap each to read their quote from that time.
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Ditching home ownership and becoming a millionaire instead
– myownadvisor.ca
Save, invest, prosper with My Own Advisor.Ditching home ownership and becoming a millionaire instead
You might already know from the recent posts on my site, I’m more interested in FIRE – which stands for Financial Independence Retire Early in the personal financial community.
Here are some recent articles on this subject:
Is FIRE right for you?
How to achieve FIRE from Get FIRE’d asap
In the latter article, Aussie investor Martin achieved his financial independence through real estate investing initiated from home equity leverage. Those decisions are not for the faint of heart. However, by all accounts he worked hard, had some luck and realized his dream.
Today’s post is the antithesis of what Martin did, and this couple was equally successful all the same. Meet FIRECracker from Millennial Revolution. She and her husband outright rejected home ownership, and invested their money instead, diligently. In doing so they amassed a seven figure portfolio throughout their 20s to formally retire from their 9-to-5 jobs at the age of……
These stocks could see major moves on Thursday
– theglobeandmail.com
All eyes will be on Home Capital Group Inc. again on Thursday to see if the alternative mortgage lender’s stock will continue to slide.
Home Capital shares tumble after the company said the terms of a new $2-billion line of credit it is arranging will leave it unable to achieve its financial targets.
