Peer-to-Peer lending: A beginner’s guide

Today, when you have money left over after paying your bills, you invest in big and distant corporations. You don’t even think about it. The government incentivizes you to save for your future through RSPs and TSFAs. You invest in stocks, bonds or mutual funds. Basically, all of our money goes to the financial markets. The financial system has been designed to funnel our our collective savings in that direction. As different as you might try to be, we all own a slice of the financial markets at large. Alternatively, you could start your own business or purchase an investment property, but this is a lot of risk, costs more in legal fees and taxes, and most importantly, it may entail work that you don’t have time for. So you invest in passive financial instruments. And until now, passive financial instruments basically meant big corporations. 2016 marks the year where we, individual Canadians, can re-channel some of those investments from large and distant corporations to local small businesses.

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Survival of the Fittest

An oldie but a goodie originally printed in CA Magazine. If you’re looking for a Registered Education Savings Plan for your children, here’s everything you need to know.

ETFs: Explained and Exposed

During the “flash crash” of 2010, the Dow dropped 1,000 points in a matter of hours because of a computer glitch. During this crunch, ETFs were impossible to sell unless you were willing to take a devastatingly low price. Why?