The Alberta government announced the rate on Capital bonds on Friday with a rate of 3.3%. The rate is equivalent to what is available on 5 year GIC’s. Considering limited liquidity, you may want to consider buying corporate bonds or 5 year Fixed Rate Reset Preferred shares.
The rates on corporate bonds can be as high [...]
Albertans are sure to be inundated with marketing on Alberta Capital Bonds in the coming weeks as the Alberta government looks to individuals to raise capital to fund their current deficits. Details of the offering were provided to financial institutions such as ourselves this week. The bonds will go on sale February 16th until March [...]
Reading the Financial Post this weekend, an incredible statistic was reported about TFSA’s. About 90% of all tax-free savings account contributions were held in actual savings accounts earning a paltry .25% give or take. With interest rates like that, who cares if the earnings are tax free as you earned $12.50 over the course of [...]
With Christmas around the corner, the last thing most people are thinking about right now are taxes and RRSP contributions. That being said, this season is the perfect time to start thinking about saving taxes and building your retirement nest egg.
A recent survey has shown that most Canadians have not contributed to RRSP’s in the [...]
We would like to congratulate Mr. Joseph Weisz of Montreal, Quebec for winning the first Rothenberg Capital Management Canadian Investment Idol Competition powered by Claymore ETF’s. Mr. Weisz had a return of 15.02% over the eight week time frame.
To view all of our weekly winners, you can click on the link HERE.
Have a great week.
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With India adding 200 tonnes of gold to their reserves, gold has hit an all-time high. It was highly anticipated that China was going to purchase this block of gold. With China publicly expressing its wish to increase its gold reserves over the coming years, one can only imagine that gold might appreciate significantly over time.
So [...]
I have seen some ads in the Calgary Herald advertising life settlements yielding 10%. The ads definitely peaked my interest as this was something different than real estate, commodities, equities or even the bond market.
To have a different asset class paying a 10% yield would be quite attractive. Of course, with the rash of real [...]
Media outlets have been reporting that inflation was -0.9% for the last 12 months in Canada. Many people will listen to that one number and not look any further.
The headline number includes food and energy prices with energy prices being the main reason for the decline since a barrel of oil in July 2008 was [...]
Bonds are not stocks.
The title of this post seems quite obvious in nature yet the amount of calls we received after Manulife cut the dividend on its common shares and how it affected the pricing and interest payments on their corporate debt was quite astounding.
Earnings per share for the company increased to $1.09 in the [...]
The latest monthly job numbers in Canada showed a 44,500 decline while the economic consensus was a 15,000 exepected decline. The National Bank Financial Economic & Strategy Group pointed out some figures that suggest some very good takeaways.
Half the job losses were in the food and accomodation area in Quebec. The decline was also among [...]
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