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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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If you invest in stocks that pay a dividend it is important to know about the ex-dividend date.
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Last week we discussed systemic risk. This week we continue our look at different types of risk by looking at systematic risk.
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Today we’re starting a short two-part blog series that looks at two different types of risk. They are systemic risk and systematic risk. In part one we’ll focus on systemic risk.
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This question came from an investor that was interested in investing in an ETF, but didn’t know whether to go with hedged or unhedged because they didn’t know the difference between the two
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If you’re investing you usually want to know how well, or maybe how bad, your investments are doing. One of the easiest ways to do this is to calculate the return on investment (ROI).