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Archive for 'financial literacy'

Investors Gouged by High Fees

Good coverage in the Globe for the CLC’s calculations on the huge negative impact of high management fees on investment returns from RRSPs and the like, as opposed to the low cost CPP. Does anybody out there find the investment fund industry response (we are providing good advice) convincing? If so, you will just love [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under financial literacy, pensions.
December 6th, 2011
Comments: 9

The Myth of Financial Literacy

Barrie McKenna has a very good column in today’s Report on Business about Bay Street simultaneously promoting “financial literacy,” more personal borrowing, and high-fee financial products. He makes some of the same points as contributors to this blog did when the Harper government’s Task Force on Financial Literacy began consulting, accepted submissions and reported.

Posted by Erin Weir under financial literacy, media.
November 21st, 2011
Comments: 8

False Consciousness, Part I: On Elections and the Middle Class

The following appeared in the National Post today. We’re in the last week of a federal election campaign, and every party wants you to believe they’re there for the hardworking families of a middle class under enormous pressure. That’s you, right? The idea of the middle class resonates, because it is a notion we all [...]

Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under Conservative government, economic thought, financial literacy, fiscal policy, income distribution, income tax, inequality, liberals, NDP, pensions, poverty, TFSA.
April 26th, 2011
Comments: 1

PEF Conference 2011

The Progressive Economics Forum has the following line-up of sessions for this year’s Canadian Economics Association conference on June 3-5 at the University of Ottawa. Thanks very much to Nick Falvo for coordinating our conference activities and putting this schedule together. We are also hosting a summer school the day before and announcing our essay [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under banks, budgets, Europe, financial literacy, household debt, monetary policy, PEF.
April 10th, 2011
Comments: none

So you think you can budget!

With the Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) officially released, you’d think the budget gnomes at the CCPA would have some much deserved time off.  Unfortunately with the snow still falling in Ottawa, we figured we’d put them back to work. Every year, the AFB puts together ideas from all of the partners involved.  Once everything is [...]

Posted by David Macdonald under budgets, federal budget, financial literacy, macroeconomics.
March 21st, 2011
Comments: 8

Financial Illiteracy

The Report of the Task Force on Financial Literacy is all that one would have expected from one co chaired by the CEO of Sun Life Financial and the Chairman of  BMO Nesbitt Burns. There is hardly a whisper of criticism of financial institutions and the myriad fees, charges and interest rates they extract from [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under financial literacy, financial markets, financial regulation.
February 9th, 2011
Comments: 6