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As we said in a previous blog post, a bond is essentially a loan you are making to a company or the government. The bond is secured by the government’s tax base or by a company’s assets. The term on a bond can typically range from a year to 30 years.
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A yield is the income return on an investment. This could include interest or dividends you receive for holding a security. In reports on a stock or a bond you’ll typically find the yield expressed as an annual percentage. This is based on the investment’s cost and current market value.
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October 1st kicks off two special events on the investor education calendar. It is the start of IOSCO’s World Investor Week and the beginning of Investor Education Month.
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The Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) has been in the news lately, leading to a reader wanting to know more about the organization.
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In pop culture you may have heard the term “stock options” bandied about. In TV shows or movies someone gets a job and it’s the best because they get employee stock options. So, in this context what exactly are employee stock options?
Stock options are an incentive that publicly or privately traded companies can offer their employees. It is a contract that gives an employee the right, but not the obligation to purchase shares of a stock at a set price on or before a specific date.
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A dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) is a plan offered to equity investors that allows them to reinvest their dividend payments instead of receiving it in cash. The dividends are reinvested in additional shares, or in some cases fractions of shares of the underlying equity.
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In last week’s blog post on mutual funds and ETFs we mentioned Net Asset Value (NAV). Now a few of our readers want to learn more about it.
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There are a number of similarities and differences when it comes to mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The key similarity is of cour
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We continue to get questions from investors regarding investment fees. The latest question was about loads. Specifically, one reader wants to know what a load is. We’ve outlined a few different kinds of loads in previous posts, but we’ll go through them again so you can get the full low down on loads all in one place.
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Last week we talked about RESPs and that led a reader to wondering what happens to the money in an RESP if their child doesn’t go to college or university? It’s definitely a possibility. Some parents start funding their RESP before their child is walking. Who knows what they might be doing 18 years down the road?
If this situation does arise then you could have four options to consider: