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EQ Bank aims to become a household name + MORE Feb 20th
Canada’s seventh-largest bank is a lender the vast majority of Canadians have never heard of. It has no branches, credit cards, or wealth management offerings.
That could all soon change, says Chadwick Westlake, who became chief executive of EQ Bank last August and already announced a transform.... More »
How retired parents can use the FHSA to help their adult children Mar 23rd
If you’re a retiree or close to retiring, you probably have a paid-off principal residence, or should be close to having one.
However, many retirees—including me—have grown children struggling to get onto the first rung of the real estate ladder. Coming up with a down payment is still diffi.... More »
Stock futures inch higher as S&P 500 and Nasdaq face worst month in 2023: Live updates - CNBC + MORE Sep 28th
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More Canadians are rethinking their bank. Should you? Jul 22nd
Clinton Begin was growing tired of frequent visits to bank branches and calling into the trading desk to check on various transactions. “There (were) a lot of things that just took too much of my time. I was always phoning, always going to visit them. It was always a big deal,” he recalled.
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Tom Schwartz Addresses Tom Sandoval-Raquel Leviss Affair - Entertainment Tonight Mar 11th
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Five money fears from childhood—and how to overcome them
– moneysense.ca
Ask around your group of peers what their childhoods were like, and you’ll probably discover you all grew up incredibly differently. Some of us dined on Kraft Dinner nightly, while others enjoyed meals fit for the cover of Bon Appétit. Some families were frugal by choice or necessity, and others were reckless spenders who regularly racked up debt. And though we’re adults now, many of the ideas we formed about money in our youth can still linger, influencing our financial decisions to this day—oftentimes, not positively.
“I have colleagues who know a lot about money, but that doesn’t mean they always make the savviest decisions, because they default to certain behaviours based on specific experiences and how they grew up,” says Melissa Leong, money expert and author of Happy Go Money. Early financial experiences with parents who overspent or didn’t save—or barely had enough to scrape together—can create a lasting impression, she says.
According to a new survey conducted by Meridian, 55% of Canadians say that money problems they experienced growing up still affect them today…
