News Releases

- Canadians are optimistic their investment portfolios will increase, despite perceived market volatility

- Canadian investors remain cautious about their investments, consistent with previous years

- Moderate global economic growth, supportive monetary and fiscal policy and reasonable equity valuations to support good opportunities in equities in 2016

- With the launch of SmartFolio, BMO now has one of the most extensive suites of investing services available to Canadians

- The new offering provides a digital and hands-off approach that is aligned to individual investment objectives for those who have as little as $5,000 to invest

- Service created with simplicity, intuitiveness and transparency as guiding design principles

- Other resolutions include: become healthier, spend more time with friends or family and improve their financial situation

- Fifty-four per cent will donate to health/medical causes this year and 48 per cent to anti-poverty charities

- Fifty-eight per cent do not have a strategy in place for donating to charity

- One third of parents with children aged 18-34 are willing to have a less comfortable retirement to support their children

- Forty-two percent are concerned their adult children have or will have financial problems caused by debt

- Forty percent said they received financial support when they were young adults themselves

Survey reveals shopping trends and Canadians' plans to avoid a Holiday Hangover in 2015

-- Only 12 per cent expect to incur debt this holiday season

-- Two-thirds say they prefer to shop using their credit card to earn rewards points