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TD Waterhouse Lowers Commission Fees Nov 4th

November 3, 2010 · 1 comment

in 2010, Canadian, November, banks, brokers, fees, financial planning, investing, news and updates, stocks

TD Waterhouse Discount Brokerage (Canada) has announced that it will lower the standard flat rate commission fee for buy and sell orders from $29 down to $9.99 for clients with household assets of at least $50,000. Changes take effect on November 4th, 2010.
Previously, clients had to hold at least $100,000 in assets at Waterhouse to [...]

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Wall Street Fraud & Moral Corruption Runs Deep

October 18, 2010 · 5 comments

in CEO pay, Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, US Treasury, US economy, bailout, banks, brokers, bubble, central banks, collapse, ethics, executive compensation, films, financial education, government, leadership, money lessons, regulation, reviews, risk, wealth transfer

Review of The Inside Job by Charles Ferguson (2010).
Despite the fact that it’s a trite truism that Wall Street is fueled by greed and “greed makes the world – or at least the markets – go round,” it’s merely the tip of the iceberg of moral depravity and social corruption that has been exposed on [...]

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Ex-Dividend Date and Record Date Explained

February 15, 2010 · 5 comments

in CIBC Mellon, Computershare, DRIPs, brokers, dividends, financial education, investing, special dates, stocks, terminology

So you finally want to figure out the exact difference between the ex-dividend date and the record date?
If you’re a dividend investor, you know that stocks which pay dividends set three important dates around the determination, announcement, and distribution of dividends: the payment date, the record date (or date of record) and the ex-dividend [...]

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eNorthern Shuts Down – Questrade Takes Over

July 10, 2008 · 9 comments

in Canadian, DRIPs, brokers

It’s too bad, because eNorthern had really cheap prices on share certificates, which is one of the reasons I was interested in them in the first place.  Only $20.00.  I’m not sure why, but now eNorthern is closing its “doors” to new business.  Here’s what they posted on their site, if you click on “Open [...]

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eNorthern Share Certificates Slow Getting to Computershare

June 18, 2008

in Canadian, DRIPs, brokers

Recently I opened an account with eNorthern primarily for the purposes of ordering share certificates (registering the share in my name as opposed to the street name). What’s great about eNorthern is that they have the cheapest prices for share certification of any Canadian broker. It only costs $20.00 to order one. [...]

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Buy Stocks Direct with MoneyPaper’s Guide to Direct Investment Plans

June 13, 2008 · 5 comments

in DRIPs, brokers, foreign investment

In a previous post, I discussed the benefit of investing in stocks directly using dividend reinvestment plans (also known as direct purchase plans, direct reinvestment plans, or direct stock purchase plans – there are some slight pragmatic differences here, but nothing that should prevent you from getting started and enrolling). In this post [...]

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Why You Should First Invest in Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs)

June 10, 2008 · 19 comments

in DRIPs, brokers, cashflow, dividends, investing (general), students

Over the past couple of years, more attention has been given to a type of investment known as dividend reinvestment plans – in both the popular finance news media as well as around the blogosphere.  Yet surprisingly, a lot of people still aren’t familiar with these plans that allow you to invest in stocks with [...]

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