November is Financial Literacy Month
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Welcome to Financial Literacy Month. Here’s what the Nova Scotia Securities Commission has planned to help educate investors throughout the month.
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Question of the Week: What is a Registered Disability Savings Plan?
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Throughout this month, which is Investor Education Month, we’ve been sharing basic information on investment accounts, specifically RRSPs, TFSAs and RESPs with a new infographic and video. One type of account we did not include in this new primer is registered disability savings plans, or RDSPs.
Question of the Week: What happens when a company name or stock ticker changes?
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Last month one of our blog readers noticed that they owned shares in a company that went through a name change and stock ticker change. They wanted to know if this has any bearing on their investment in the company.
Question of the Week: What is the relationship between risk and return when investing?
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Question of the Week: What are the prospectus exemptions? Part 7: Offering Memorandum exemption
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Our blog series on prospectus exemptions concludes this week with Part 7 on the offering memorandum exemption. You can find links to the entire series at the end of this post.
Welcome to Investor Education Month and World Investor Week
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The beginning of October is also the beginning of Investor Education Month and World Investor Week.
Question of the Week: What are the prospectus exemptions? Part 6: Start-up crowdfunding exemption
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We’re getting near the end of our blog series on prospectus exemptions with Part 6. This week’s post looks at the start-up crowdfunding exemption.
Question of the Week: What are the prospectus exemptions? Part 5: Minimum amount ($150,000) exemption
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As we reach Part 5 in our series on the prospectus exemptions, we arrive at the shortest blog post in the series on the Minimum amount ($150,000) exemption.
Question of the Week: What are the prospectus exemptions? Part 4: Accredited investor exemption
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We’re crossing the midpoint of our blog series on the prospectus exemptions. This week we’re looking at the accredited investor exemption.
Student Connections Program launches for the new school year
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With students returning to the classroom in high schools and universities across Nova Scotia this month the Nova Scotia Securities Commission is relaunching our Student Connections Program.