A brokerage account allows you to buy and sell securities such as stocks, bonds and ETFs. Generally, opening a brokerage account makes sense once you’ve saved for an emergency fund and maximized ...

A brokerage account allows you to manage your own investments, rather than relying on a stockbroker, whether you’re saving for your child’s education, using your investments to save for retirement, or ...

Thanks to improvements in mobile technology and smartphone apps, buying stocks in Canada has perhaps never been easier. Even so, when you’re buying stocks on the Toronto Stock Exchange, you might get ...

Brooklyn Sprunger is a full-time Content Manager and Personal Finance Writer at Motley Fool Money, where she oversees product reviews and ratings while also writing about credit cards, bank accounts, ...

A regulatory hearing panel fined and banned a former mutual fund rep at Royal Mutual Funds Inc., after finding that he violated securities rules by encouraging several clients to open online brokerage ...

How to sell your funds and become a DIY investor A. Transferring your accounts to an online brokerage is relatively straightforward. But if you decide to work with one of the big-bank brokerages, I ...

No-fee trading platforms are attracting a wave of do-it-yourself investors in Canada, accounting for almost half of all new account openings and almost a third of all trading activity. A report set to ...

We’ve all done it — some more than others — but many of us have picked an online brokerage without researching, test-driving, or reading customer reviews. Maybe they offered a sign-up bonus, or maybe ...