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HISAs vs. bonds and GICs: Where should Canadians hold their cash? + MORE Dec 18th
“Bonds are back,” you may have read on a financial news site or heard a financial advisor say recently. True enough, money is flowing into these fixed-income investments at the highest rate in years, and for good reasons.
In fact, Canadian savers have an abundance of good choices right now f.... More »
How much to take out of your RRSP in your 60s + MORE Nov 3rd
Many retirees have the bulk of their retirement savings in registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs) or similar tax-deferred registered accounts. RRSPs need to be used to buy an annuity or more commonly converted to a registered retirement income fund (RRIF) by Dec. 31 of the year someone turns 71.... More »
Stock market news for investors: Canadian banks report Q1 earnings + MORE Feb 28th
Companies that reported earnings this week
BMO
Scotiabank
National Bank
CIBC
RBC
TD
Laurentian
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Silicon Valley Bank files for bankruptcy | GMA - ABC News Mar 18th
Silicon Valley Bank files for bankruptcy | GMA ABC NewsParent company of Silicon Valley Bank filing for bankruptcy protection CBC NewsSVB Financial Goes Bankrupt Bloomberg TelevisionSVB parent company files for bankruptcy CTV NewsSilicon Valley Bank parent.... More »
How to build credit history in Canada + MORE Sep 28th
In Canada, a credit history is a person’s track record of using credit (borrowing money) and repaying debt. Your credit history can affect many aspects of your financial life—from getting approved for a credit card or renting an apartment to taking out a mortgage or a car loan, among other thing.... More »
How Early-Stage Start-Ups Can Overcome the Talent Crunch
– canadianbusiness.com
Record investment deals, a historic tech initial public offering (IPO) rush, newly minted unicorns and the rapid adoption of technology to digitize our lives and enable remote work—it’s been an electrifying few years for Canadian tech companies. But the Covid-19 pandemic has made life much harder for a critical slice of our innovation economy: early-stage start-ups.
Early-stage companies are the beginning of Canada’s entrepreneurial pipeline. They have big ideas, product prototypes and even a few sales. More importantly, they have the potential to be Canada’s next homegrown tech titans. They’re not quite ready to scale up or cash out—they’re still surviving on coffee, maxed-out credit cards and angel or seed investments.
Seed financing is up during the pandemic. But it hasn’t kept pace with the amounts going to later-stage companies—through the first three quarters of 2021, 63 per cent of venture capital dollars were invested in later- and growth-stage companies…
