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Classes are back in session for the new school year, and another class of high school seniors are a year away from college and university. After a house, post-secondary education can be one of the most expensive endeavours in a person’s life.
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School is back in session which means the Nova Scotia Securities Commission has relaunched the Student Connections Program.
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How much do you know about the Nova Scotia Securities Commission (NSSC) and the people behind it? The Before You Invest Blog has previously published posts on the Commission, highlighting our mandate and the role of the different Commission branches.
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Staff at the Nova Scotia Securities Commission regularly deliver investor education presentations on basic investing to the public. Some questions we regularly get from beginner investors at these presentations are related to public company’s financial reporting, specifically their balance sheets.
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Our psychology of investing series concludes today with a look at behavioural biases and fraud. Throughout the series we’ve talked about several different biases and how they can influence your investing habits. Fraudsters will exploit these biases to take advantage of you and separate you from your hard-earned money.
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The ninth part of our psychology of investing series takes a closer look at familiarity bias. Do you tend to favour things that are familiar and show less interest in things that are unfamiliar to you? This could be due to familiarity bias.
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Our latest regulatory review looks at all regulatory releases and notices issued by the Nova Scotia Securities Commission and the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) since May.
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The number of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Canada and the United States that allow investors to invest in crypto assets has increased rapidly in the last few years. In case you weren’t aware, the first ever crypto ETF, a Bitcoin ETF to be exact, was approved and launched in Canada in 2021.