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MoneyFlex

First home savings account: A Gen Z guide to achieving home ownership

If you want to be a home owner in Canada, here’s how the new tax-free FHSA could get you...

First home savings account: A Gen Z guide to achieving home ownership
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Real Estate

How to take advantage of the first home savings account

The federal government will launch the FHSA as part of a suite of measures to support first-time home buyers....

How to take advantage of the first home savings account
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Investing

Making sense of the markets this week: March 26, 2023

Inflation and banking fears ease (or do they?), GameStop earns a profit, and putting Canadian and U.S. stock...

Making sense of the markets this week: March 26, 2023
A retiree with her adult child's own family at their first home, thanks to the FHSA

Retired Money

How retired parents can use the FHSA to help their adult children

Canada’s new first home savings account nicely complements earlier real estate programs. Retirees with grown adult children should take...

How retired parents can use the FHSA to help their adult children
A woman in her 60s holds a coffee, pondering how to have the most tax-efficient retirement income plan

Ask MoneySense

How to have the most tax-efficient retirement income plan

Should you plan your retirement savings around paying the least amount of taxes? Find out the implications and the...

How to have the most tax-efficient retirement income plan
Links to "The First-Time Home Buyer Incentive" video

Mortgages

Video: Buying your first home? Learn about the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive

What is Canada’s First-Time Home Buyer Incentive program and who qualifies for it? In this short video, we explain...

Video: Buying your first home? Learn about the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive

Financial literacy

What is the benchmark interest rate?

The Bank of Canada’s benchmark interest rate can have an impact on everything from your savings account to your...

What is the benchmark interest rate?

Investing

What is a basis point?

You’ll often hear economists and financial journalists talk about basis points. What are they and how can you convert...

What is a basis point?

Banking

What is a credit union?

Should you do your banking at a credit union? Find out the key differences between credit unions and banks...

What is a credit union?