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Do you have trouble understanding what fees you’re paying on your investments? Maybe you don’t know your loads from your commissions. Maybe you’re one of the many investors who don’t know that they pay any fees at all. Unfortunately, yes those people do exist.
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A clearing house is a third party that acts as a go-between for buyers and sellers in financial markets. They facilitate the exchange of payments involving securities or derivatives transactions. Clearing houses are also responsible for settling trading accounts, clearing trades, collecting and maintaining margin monies, regulating delivery, and reporting trading data.
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Throughout the month our Twitter feed and Before You Invest Blog will be sharing new posts and information on clearing houses, short selling, and CEDIFs, as well as resharing evergreen content on equities, getting stared in investing, bonds, RESPs and risk. We’ll also be debuting our new online guide on Understanding Investment Fees.
Also be on the lookout for a new campaign from the CSA on ETF Facts.
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Defining Capital Gains and Capital Losses is quite simple.
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A bond fun, simply put, is a mutual fund that invests solely in bonds and other debt instruments. This may include government, corporate municipal or convertible bonds and debt instruments such as mortgage-backed securities.
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Junk bond is another term that seems to be used a lot despite the fact most people have no idea what it means.
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Tomorrow marijuana use becomes legal in Canada. The changing of the laws around marijuana have led to the creation of a new industry and many new companies in Canada, and beyond our borders. This in-turn has led to many advisers and investors seeing a new investment opportunity.
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October is the launch of our 2018 Student Connections campaign. Throughout the school year we’ll be visiting universities, colleges and high schools across Nova Scotia to deliver presentations on informed investing.
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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.