Goodbye ScotiaITrade, Hello RBC Direct Investing!

February 20th, 2012 | Category: Banks, Investing | 11 comments

As the title says, I am moving all my investment accounts away from ScotiaITrade to RBC Direct Investing. Interestingly enough, I wasn’t with ScotiaITrade by choice since I previously was with e*trade Canada due to my employer’s stock purchase plan and I just stuck around after ScotiaBank purchased the unit from e*trade. It was working [...]

Crooked Banks? Mortgage and Real Estate Propaganda?

January 15th, 2012 | Category: Banks, Mortgages | 7 comments

The title is a mouth full – eh? I read an article over the weekend about the current low mortgage rates offered by many banks and the comments were most entertaining (more about that in a bit). The title was intriguing: “Why are mortgage rates hitting record lows?“. Who wouldn’t be interested if they have [...]

Dividend Yield: TD Bank (TSE:TD)

January 20th, 2011 | Category: Banks, BMO, BNS, Canadian Banks, CM, Dividends, LB, NA, RY, TD, Yield | 15 comments

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The Toronto-Dominion Bank, TD for short, is the second largest bank in Canada. Like most of the large Canadian banks, it offers a full range of financial products and services. With 71,049 employees and 19 million customers worldwide, TD is focused in 4 segments:

Canadian Personal & Commercial Banking – 2,668M$ in [...]

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