It’s tax time and that means investors are about to be bombarded with advertisements telling them to invest before the income tax deadline. Late last year an employee at the Commis...
There's no new Before You Invest blog post this week or next week as we take a break for the holidays. Happy Holdays everyone, we’ll see you in 2020 with more investor education in...
We had a question sent to us asking what a white paper is in connection to cryptocurrency and initial coin offerings (ICOs). We’ll be speaking toward what a white paper is in that ...
A promissory note is a financial instrument that is a written promise from one party to pay back another party a set sum of money, either on demand or at a specific date in the fut...
A debenture is a type of debt instrument that is similar to a bond in that it is issued by a company or a government as a way of raising capital. Unlike a bond a debenture is not s...
FOREX is the Foreign Exchange Market. It is a global, decentralized over-the-counter market for the trading of currencies. FOREX allows anyone to exchange one form of currency for ...
One of our readers sent in a question last week after looking over our old post on Fund Facts. They noticed that the Fund Facts provided some basic information on a mutual fund’s i...
One of our readers is a keen follower of the stock market. They aren’t heavily invested in stocks, but they enjoy monitoring the price of some local companies and some well-known b...
The consumer price index (CPI) is used to determine the changes in consumer prices experienced by Canadians. The CPI is determined by looking at the change in cost over time of a f...
