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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I am seriously considering investing in ETFs. Is there a penalty or limit into investing solely on an international ETF such as XAW?—Michael
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Best online brokers in Canada for 2023
– moneysense.ca
Self-directed online investing has normalized after a few years of outsized activity spurred by house-bound investors and government stimulus payments, especially after a bad year for stocks in 2022. Account openings have now stabilized and are back to pre-COVID and pre-meme-stock-phenomenon levels. And the trend of $0 commission firms—specifically no limitations on stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)—has stalled at two and a half legitimate firms. Yes, you read that last part correctly. (More on that half-firm later, where we talk about $0 commissions.)
Now, the question for Canadian online investors—or for that matter the actual online brokerage firms—is what’s the next marketing ploy to watch for? Is it something to attract new investors to the industry and in turn to the firm? Or is it something to make existing investors entertain the thought of trying a new online broker or even switching?
It seems the current marketing focus is to target Canadian investors with words like “easy” and “simple…
