News Releases

- The portfolios have three different risk profiles and aim to help preserve and grow wealth in retirement

- Low-fee solution designed to provide downside protection against market volatility

- According to StatsCan, life expectancy in Canada has increased by 25 years since 1921

- Three quarters of Canadians said they would use their own savings to fund long-term care needs

- Fifty-six per cent would prefer to receive long-term care in their own home rather than in a facility

- Thirty-seven per cent have not discussed any financial issues around potential long-term care with loved ones

- Wealthy Canadian parents pay for an average of 69 per cent of their children's post-secondary school costs

- They are less concerned with how their children will perform academically than how they will fare financially after graduation

- Sixteen per cent have their children enrolled in private schools; almost three quarters feel their children will receive a better education

- Overall spending down to $323 from $428 in 2013

- Despite having the highest percentage of people planning to shop for back to school (59 per cent), those in Atlantic Canada plan to spend the least ($211)

- BMO Economics says that fewer trips south of the border for shopping could provide a silver lining