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Can you gain entry to your formerly shared home after a separation? May 7th
Q. I have somewhat of a complicated situation regarding my separation and the separation agreement, so I’ll try my best to give you as much information as possible:
February 2004: Partner and I started living together. He had just purchased a townhouse with financial assistance from his mother. I.... More »
Reader Questions – How I built my dividend portfolio + MORE Mar 4th
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Reader Questions – How I built my dividend portfolio Thanks good readers, I appreciate hearing from you and receiving your saving and investing questions. If you’ve been following My Own Advisor for a while you’ll know I’m a hybrid investor. I.... More »
Asian stocks extend rally as Singapore policy move hits currency + MORE Apr 14th
The global stock rally intensified in Asia as Singapore unexpectedly eased monetary policy, helping stoke confidence in the ability of central banks to manage a global slowdown and damping demand for haven assets
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Brexit vote rocks the world’s financial markets + MORE Jun 24th
A man walks past a screen displaying currency exchange rates outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter – RTX2HWDB
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — World financial markets were rocked Friday by Britain’s unprecedented vote to leave the European Union, with stoc.... More »
Does it make sense to retire when we’re still in a pandemic? Jul 28th
While the war in Ukraine has largely displaced COVID-19 as front-page news, that doesn’t mean the pandemic is done with us quite yet. In fact, COVID again made the front page of the National Post in early July, when it reported that half the Canadian population (more than 17 million) were infected.... More »
How technology helps fund managers get bigger returns with lower fees
– canadianbusiness.com
(Illusration by Serge Bloch)After the Great Recession erased their portfolio gains in 2008, many investors started to wonder whether active management was really worth it. If stock-picking managers couldn’t keep their funds afloat in tough times, then what was the point? At the same time, study after study was showing that most actively managed mutual funds could not beat their benchmarks, mainly because of the management fees (averaging over 2%) embedded in their returns.
How Canadian startups are changing the way we bank
That opened a door for low-fee, technology-enabled alternatives, such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and online “robo-advisers,” that build portfolios with a minimum of human interference and at a cost typically less than 1% of the value of assets under management per year. They were all about passive investing at first—using index funds to match the returns of stock and bond benchmarks like the S&P 500. Their adherents slept well knowing that they’d still do better than most of their neighbours, who shelled out big fees to chase elusive “alpha,” or above-market returns…
Brookfield to spin off 35% of business-services operations
– theglobeandmail.com
The dividend is worth about 50 cents a share, or about $500 million, the Toronto-based company said
Canada-wide real estate search site, BuzzBuzzHome plans to launch a “buy now” button, allowing Canadians to instantly purchase a new construction home online with nothing more than a credit card.
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed and his investment firm double ownership of Twitter stock
– canadianbusiness.com
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and his investment company have doubled their ownership of Twitter’s publicly traded shares in the past six weeks.
A joint statement released Wednesday by the prince and the Riyadh-based Kingdom Holding Company says their combined shares represent more than 5 per cent of Twitter’s common stock, with a market value of $1 billion.
The prince and KHC, which he chairs, originally invested $300 million in Twitter in 2011 before the micro-blogging site went public two years later.
With the most recent investments, Prince Alwaleed holds roughly 30,100,000 shares in Twitter and KHC has nearly 4,850,000 shares.
The post Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed and his investment firm double ownership of Twitter stock appeared first on Canadian Business – Your Source For Business News.
A joint statement released Wednesday by the prince and the Riyadh-based Kingdom Holding Company says their combined shares represent more than 5 per cent of Twitter’s common stock, with a market value of $1 billion.
The prince and KHC, which he chairs, originally invested $300 million in Twitter in 2011 before the micro-blogging site went public two years later.
With the most recent investments, Prince Alwaleed holds roughly 30,100,000 shares in Twitter and KHC has nearly 4,850,000 shares.
The post Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed and his investment firm double ownership of Twitter stock appeared first on Canadian Business – Your Source For Business News.
