“Cross-border shopping will remain a thorn in the side of retailers,” the BMO study said. With consumers looking to pay down record high household debts and American retailers luring them over the border with deep discounts, Canadians are likely to spend less at home, a report by BMO Capital Markets predicts. The forecast is based [...]
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Fulfill your wishes tax efficiently – It’s all about Estate Planning
by Chandresh Brahmbhatt Estate Planning is often overlooked by many Canadians. Estate planning is a process to arrange all your financial affairs, after your death, in an orderly manner; so that your estate is transferred, according to your wishes, often tax efficiently. You are legally known as testator (person making a will). Simply speaking Estate [...]

HOW TO GET A JOB IN A BANK OR FINANCIAL FIRM
by Aizad Ahmad When you opened your first bank account, did you ever wonder how that person got the job and what qualifications, skills and knowledge they had to attain? Six years ago, when I landed here in Canada, I wondered the same, and thought it quite impossible to get a job in the banking/financial sector. [...]

Market your products and services for Free
by Karthik Asymmetric warfare a.k.a guerrilla warfare is a means for a smaller force to overwhelm and ultimately win over a much larger and well organized conventional army. You must be wondering what the earlier line has got to do with marketing. Well, marketing is a kind of battle in which the success is defined [...]
Dreams & Money Goes Purely Digital
At Dreams & Money, I have a dream; I know you have a dream too. That’s why you have this paper in your hands. My dream took the shape of mission statement for “Dreams & Money” nine months ago. The mission of Dreams & Money is to help people see their financial dreams come true. [...]
Bank of Canada leaves rates unchanged.
“The strong Canadian dollar continued to be a nuisance, hampering the export recovery and depressing prices,” said Bank of Canada on April 12. This is confirmed by Statistics Canada. It reported a disappointing trade performance for February. The bank has not hiked interest rates since last September. There’s nothing here to suggest that the Bank [...]




