With income tax time coming up many investors may be thinking about contributing to their RRSP before the end of the annual contribution period. Many investors will do this by inve...
Bond ratings are a guide to the creditworthiness of bonds, which in-turn helps an investor determine the amount of risk they would take on when purchasing these bonds.Bond ratings ...
There's no new Before You Invest blog post this week or next week as we take a break for the holidays. Happy Holidays everyone, we’ll see you in 2021 with more investor education c...
A dividend yield is expressed as a percentage and shows how much a company pays out in dividends each year based on its stock price. A dividend yield is calculated by dividing the ...
When investing, most people would like to get an average or above average return on their investments. This make sense of course. However, most people do not know what an average r...
In a previous blog post we addressed the age limitations for opening certain registered accounts. As stated in that post, to open a tax-free savings account (TFSA) you must be the ...
The real estate market in many parts of Canada, and Nova Scotia, is booming right now which has led to a question about the RRSP Home Buyers Plan (HBP).The Nova Scotia Securities C...
In a previous blog post we looked at stock splits. Recently in the news a few companies announced reverse stock splits, which led to this post.In a regular stock split a company di...
In a recent blog post we used the term leverage. One of our readers was looking for a more definitive definition of leverage and how it works. The Nova Scotia Securities Commission...
November is Financial Literacy Month across Canada. Financial literacy organizations will be running campaigns and programs coast to coast throughout the month and the Nova Scotia ...
