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The final date by which you can contribute to your RRSP for the 2010 tax year is March 1, 2011.

RRSP funds can be attributed to, or to a combination of, mutual funds, guaranteed investment certificates, bonds, stocks, deposit accounts or segregated funds.

The Home Ownership course is free, and the payoff of the advice it lends could be exponential.

Tax-Free Savings Accounts have been available to Canadians for two years, yet only one third of Canadians have opted to open one for themselves.

What is TD’s strategy to stay afloat in a competitive mortgage market which has seen the Canadian home buyer’s business increasingly shifted towards mortgage brokers?

You portfolio will benefit greatly from a blend of investments that remain liquid and accessible in addition to others that build slowly, locked-in, over the long-term.

A reverse mortgage frees the equity you have built in your home with very little out of pocket expense – as little as $300 to $600 so long as no title issues are attributed to your property.

78 per cent of actively managed mutual funds under-perform the general stock market index.

12 per cent of Canadian mortgage holders opt to lock in to terms longer than five years; is the stability worth the added cost?

The purchaser will be paying interest on every dollar of the home’s value, as opposed to nicking off a good chunk, interest free, with a down payment.