Question of the Week: How often are fund facts updated?
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In a previous blog post we talked about fund facts.
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Question of the Week: Can I change my mind on a mutual fund purchase?
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Sometimes investors change their minds. What if, after purchasing a mutual fund, you feel you have a made a mistake and wish to cancel or withdraw the purchase?
Question of the Week: What is SEDI?
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SEDI is short for the System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders. It is Canada’s online service for the filing and viewing of insider reports that are required under Canadian securities laws.
Question of the Week: What is a SPAC?
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The term SPAC has come up a lot in media stories and social media posts on investing lately. That led to a reader wanting to know more about them and if they exist in Canada.
Question of the Week: What happens when a company ceases being a reporting issuer?
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Last week we talked about Nova Scotia reporting issuers. A reader noticed that recently two Nova Scotia reporting issuers applied for and were granted permission to cease being reporting issuers. They wanted to know what happens in this instance.
Question of the Week: How many reporting issuers are in Nova Scotia?
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The Commission occasionally gets inquiries about Nova Scotia based reporting issuers. To help people looking for information on the number of Nova Scotia reporting issuers and what they are, we’ve created this post.
Question of the Week: What is the dividend tax credit?
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We’ve got another tax question this week regarding the taxing of dividends. Last week we looked at capital gains tax. Some investors believe capital gains and dividends are taxed the same. They are not.
Question of the Week: How do capital gains taxes work?
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It’s getting closer to income tax time and we’ve been seeing an increase in investors asking about taxes. One particularly popular tax topic is capital gains and how they’re taxed.
Question of the Week: What are target-date mutual funds?
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As a continuation of our series looking the different types of mutual funds, we’ve been asked about target-date funds.
Question of the Week: What are fund-of-funds mutual funds?
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In the latest part of our series looking at different types of mutual funds we look at fund-of-funds. Simply put, these types of mutual funds invest in other mutual funds or hedge funds. An investor investing in fund-of-funds is trying to build a broadly diverse portfolio and spread out asset allocation by investing in a variety of funds types in one.