Investing essentials

In this short presentation, we’ll cover the basics of mutual funds to help you make more informed investment decisions. 

Whether you’re seeking regular income or long-term growth, there's a Scotia Portfolio Solution to help you achieve your goals at a level of risk you're comfortable with.

Understanding the costs associated with mutual funds is an important part of your purchase decision. Watch our video to learn more about how mutual fund fees work. 

Contact a Scotiabank advisor if you have any questions.

Understanding mutual fund distributions, their benefits and tax implications, are key to tax-efficient investing when holding mutual funds in a non-registered account. In this article, we define and demystify mutual fund trust distributions and how they impact your mutual fund investments.

Learn how Pre-Authorized Contributions (PACs) can help keep you on track to meet your investing goals and how harnessing the power of compounding can effectively help grow your assets.

Markets can be unpredictable, and last year was certainly no exception. The year was marked by a series of surprises and challenges including a banking crisis, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and rising costs of living. Read about the key investing lessons from 2023 and learn time-tested investing strategies to help set yourself up for success in the new year and beyond.  

Investment decisions have financial and emotional implications. Read about how our natural emotional biases can shape the way we view our finances and interact with our investments, often subconsciously.

Help take the worry out of inflation with actionable strategies in this article and position yourself for long-term success.

Whether you’re saving for retirement, your dream home or your children’s education, fixed income investments will most likely feature as an integral part of your diversified investment portfolio. Learn how fixed income has the potential to generate income, increase diversification, and enhance total return.

Although we cannot predict the future, we can certainly learn from the past. Nothing about 2020 was conventional, but the lessons learned felt very familiar. This article sheds light on the lessons learned from 2020 which will serve as an investment playbook for years to come.

The negative impact that inflation has on your savings over time is an ever-present, but often overlooked risk when investing. This infographic will put the effects of inflation into perspective for the long-term investor. 

In this short presentation we discuss the basics of asset allocation, and how this important strategy can add value to your investment portfolio. Learn how the right asset mix can help you achieve your long-term investment goals, while carefully managing risk.

Just like the weather, markets can be unpredictable. By building a diversified portfolio made up of a variety of investment types, you can help smooth your investment returns and benefit from potential gains from investments that are doing well.

Many of our investment decisions are based on our comfort with taking risks. It's important to remember that, when it comes to planning for the long term, risk can be managed with proper planning and the right balance of investments for each stage of your life.

When it comes to planning for the long term, risk is more than a four-letter word. This article puts different investment risks into perspective and explores the different ways they can be managed.

When making investment decisions, investors often attempt to time the market. In this short presentation we’ll discuss the concept of market timing, the likelihood of success with this strategy, and the potential impact on an investment portfolio.

Market volatility is unnerving, for even the savviest of investors. In this article we provide you with some key tips on how to manage – and potentially benefit from – market volatility.

Something as simple as staying invested during the ups and downs in the markets can be an important strategy to help you benefit from the best performing days in the markets. This approach provides the potential for better overall portfolio performance over the long term.