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Over the years the Before You Invest blog has published several posts on registered accounts, including Registered Retirement Saving Plans (RRSPs), Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs), Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) and, most recently, First-home Savings Accounts (FHSAs).
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The calendar flips over to October tomorrow, which is the start of Investor Education Month (IEM). Throughout IEM the Nova Scotia Securities Commission (NSSC) has investor events, presentations and content planned to help Nova Scotians make more informed investment decisions. Here’s a rundown of what we have planned for the month.
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The principal mandate of the Nova Scotia Securities Commission (NSSC) is to protect Nova Scotia investors. One of the ways we do that is by issuing investor alerts and cautions. You can find all the alerts and cautions we’ve issued for the last nine years on our Investor Alert Database.
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The bell has rung on a new school year, so the Nova Scotia Securities Commission is ringing in the new school year with the return of the Student Connections Program.
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It’s back to school season again, and many students and their parents may be thinking about their future post-secondary education. If your child is just starting school, you have more than a decade before college or university begins. That may seem like a long time, but going from the first day of school to high school graduation flies by faster than you think.
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Over the last year investing has become more complicated for investors and advisers. Prediction markets, event contracts, crypto assets, stablecoins and finfluencers are just a few of the emerging issues that investors are being bombarded with. These emerging issues have been consistently covered by the media, forums, Redditt and on social media.
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If home ownership is on your list of goals, then investing may need to be part of your plans to get there. When it comes to purchasing a home and investing there are two main options available to Canadians; the RRSP Home Buyers’ Plan (HBP), and the First Home Savings Account (FHSA). So, what’s the difference between them and how does each work?
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When it comes to investing, your most valuable asset is time. Unless someone invents the flux capacitor and time travel, time cannot be gotten back once it’s gone. Delaying investing reduces the amount of time available for potential investment growth.
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If you’re talking movies, The Magnificent Seven was a classic western action film released in 1960 that was based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. It was remade in 2016 and starred Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt. Since this is a blog about investing that’s not the Magnificent Seven we’re talking about.
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This year NSSC has received complaints from investors who are having problems or issues with their adviser or investment firm. Often these complaints are either sent to the wrong person at NSSC or lack sufficient information required to truly understand what has occurred and the resolution the investor is looking for.