World Bank Cuts Growth Forecasts

As you can appreciate, my sentiment was cautious leading into the end of 2012 with the Bush era tax cuts set to expire. As suspected, U.S Congress came through at the last minute with their usual political posturing leading to the final vote. Now that we avoided the...

Canadian Mortgage Changes

If you look at any recent housing market survey, you’ll notice a common trend. The Canadian real estate market is cooling, but definitely not popping. In spite of this, the Government of Canada has announced more changes to government-backed insured mortgages in...

Centum One Mortgage Rates

As a part of our on-going commitment to enhance our client’s experience at Security Financial Services, we recently launched our revamped website which now includes a “Mortgage Rates Section” that posts our most competitive rate via Centum One...

10 Market Rules to Remember

I read an interesting article and wanted to share it with you. It’s nothing new but it reinforces the very basic rules of investing and how it relates to historical patterns, human emotion, and downright logic. Source: Advisoranalyst.com, The Big Picture...

2012 Federal Budget Highlights

The March 2012 federal budget introduced various tax measures and credits aimed at seniors, families, registered plans and small businesses. Rather than trying to summarize every change I will focus on some aspects that I think will be of interest to you as investors....