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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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March is Fraud Prevention Month!