March is Fraud Prevention Month. Throughout the month we’ll be sharing information on how to recognize and avoid investment fraud on our website, Twitter feed and relaunched YouTub...
This week the risk series shines the spotlight on concentration risk.An investor takes on concentration risk when they do not diversify their investments. We talked about diversifi...
The risk series continues this week with a look at liquidity risk.The liquidity of an investment refers to the ability to sell it for cash. If you cannot sell your investments for ...
We continue our series on investment risk today by looking at market risk. Market risk is the risk that an investment will decline in value due to negative economic developments or...
Today the Before You Invest Blog is starting a new series on risk. The series will run for the next nine weeks and look at different types of investment risk. Along the way we’ll t...
We did it again. We dropped some terminology in last week’s blog post and people want to know more about it. This week it’s asset classes. An asset class is a group of investments ...
In last week’s blog post we mentioned diversification. We briefly explained what it meant, but a few readers asked for a more in depth look at what diversification is and why it is...
Time horizon is the length of time you expect to hold on to an investment before selling it. Time horizon can help an investor determine how much risk to take when investing and wh...
Okay, we are not talking about the TV show or Alex Trebek.It's a new year, and many investors may be re-examing their investments and investment strategy and goals. With that may a...
A new year means a new semester. New classes. New students. New teachers. And with that comes new opportunities. Throughout the school year staff from the Nova Scotia Securities Co...
