Student Connections 2022 Winter Relaunch
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A new year means a new semester. New classes. New students. New teachers. And with that comes new opportunities.
NSSC Blog: Before You Invest
What is a security anyway? Part 1
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As the name suggests, the Nova Scotia Securities Commission regulates all securities in the province of Nova Scotia. But what exactly is a security?
Investing and Taxes
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It’s tax time, so what better time of year to review a couple of taxes that can come into play when you’re investing. Specifically, we’ll be looking at the Capital Gains Tax, and the Dividend Tax Credit.
Investment Advertising during RRSP season
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Last week we provided a quick rundown of RRSPs. As we said in that post, it’s RRSP season and investors can expect to see ads online, in print, and broadcast on radio and TV reminding them to contribute to their RRSP before the deadline.
It’s RRSP season! But what’s an RRSP?
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The turning over of the calendar means it will soon be time to start doing your income taxes. That also means the deadline, March 1, 2022, to contribute to your RRSPs is coming up for the 2021 tax year. You may start to see ads online and on TV reminding you that the time to invest in your RRSPs for the 2021 tax year is running out.
2021 Investor Alerts Review
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Part of the Nova Scotia Securities Commission mandate is to protect Nova Scotia investors. One of the ways we do that is by issuing investor alerts.
Welcome to 2022 and our new blog revamp
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In 2017 the Before You Invest Blog was relaunched. A Question of the Week format was implemented that ensured at least one new blog post per week. Since then, there have been 301 new blog posts, of which 244 were Question of the Week posts, consisting of more than 90,000 words. After five years of questions and answers we’ve decided to make a few changes.
Happy Holidays from NSSC!
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There will be no Before You Invest blog post this week as we take a short break for the holidays.
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year everyone!
Question of the Week: What Client Focused Reforms (CFRs) are coming into effect Dec 31, 2021?
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On December 31st the remainingClient Focused Reforms (CFRs) will come into effect. Here’s a brief rundown and what this means for clients and registrants.
Question of the Week: What is an ex-dividend date?
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If you invest in stocks that pay a dividend it is important to know about the ex-dividend date.