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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5.5 year – 2.77%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by DUCA Financial Services and was updated on 2014-01-25. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
30 days – 1.50%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by Oaken Financial and was updated on 2013-02-04. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
ETFs and mutual funds will co-exist for some time yet
– moneysense.ca
The February/March 2014 issue of MoneySense has just been produced and is due to hit subscriber mailboxes and newsstands shortly.February/March is always our annual RRSP issue and until a year ago, that issue featured Suzane Abboud‘s Best Mutual Funds. Suzane used to write a regular mutual fund column for us throughout the year but decided to take a break from it. She is however back for the annual mutual fund roundup.
A year ago, we introduced the MoneySense ETF All-Stars, written by Dan Bortolotti with the assistance of a small panel of ETF experts. Dan also writes the popular Index Investor column and authored the MoneySense Guide to the Perfect Portfolio. He’s back with the second edition of the ETF All-stars, a feature we plan to revisit at this time every year.
However, as was the case last year, we did not jettison the mutual fund package to make way for ETFs. Instead, we opted to align the mutual fund package with a philosophy Suzane had espoused in one of her last regular columns…
60 days – 1.55%
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This GIC rate is offered by Oaken Financial and was updated on 2013-02-04. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
He used his CEO skills to help a charity: Roseman
– thestar.com
Joe Canavan had a successful career in financial services before taking a break at age 47 and using his skills to transform a children’s charity.

