News Releases

- S&P 500 expected to gain upwards of 7 per cent by next year

- Financial and healthcare sectors will lead the way

- Since March 2009, S&P has rallied nearly 200 per cent

- Student assistance programs (18 per cent), child's savings (17 per cent) and scholarships (11 per cent) identified as other sources of funding

- Seventy per cent of parents are worried that their children will not be able to afford university or college

- Two-thirds of parents have opened an RESP, up from 52 per cent in 2012

- One of the busiest shopping periods of the year

- Only one-third of post-secondary students relying on family and friends for financial assistance

- BMO Economics: total retail sales are expected to climb 3.5 per cent to 4 per cent this back-to-school season