Where to park money short-term?

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ATL5000 shows a yield of 0% at TDW ??
MIP510 .70%
DYN500 .65%
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Webber22 wrote:ATL5000 shows a yield of 0% at TDW ??
MIP510 .70%
DYN500 .65%
ATL5000 yeild can be found here: http://www.renaissanceinvestments.ca/en ... s/hisa.asp

When optionable68 posted yesterday it was still showing .70% but now it has indeed been increased to .80%. I'm glad I held off questioning his post, instead I assumed he knew something that I didn't know.
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bwalter wrote:
Webber22 wrote:ATL5000 shows a yield of 0% at TDW ??
MIP510 .70%
DYN500 .65%
ATL5000 yeild can be found here: http://www.renaissanceinvestments.ca/en ... s/hisa.asp

When optionable68 posted yesterday it was still showing .70% but now it has indeed been increased to .80%. I'm glad I held off questioning his post, instead I assumed he knew something that I didn't know.
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Looks like the other firms offering HISAs may be coming around to be competitive.

DYN500 just raised rates to 0.75%

But still not as good as Renaissance ATL5000 which was raised to 0.80% as per optionable68's notice above.
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fundamental wrote:Looks like the other firms offering HISAs may be coming around to be competitive.
Good stuff! Manulife's MIP510 has been raised, to 0.80 %, too.
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RBC and Altamira (National Bank) also raised.... but Renaissance is still #1
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BTB100 is now paying 0.80% as well.
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For a good return over 4.5 months, do you think PIC.PR.A would be a good safe place to invest? See details in this post:

http://www.financialwisdomforum.org/for ... 34#p387134
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Altamira now paying 0.80% too
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If you were "parking" money that you planned to spend on a down-payment for a house, is there any logic in putting it in XRE. Would XRE fluctauate with real-estate prices and in the meantime provide a yield that is much better than any GIC or HISA?
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CCS HISA 1.2%
BNS Power savings 1.15%
TD HISA 1.1 %

Needed approval above branch level on $250,000 do a definite maybe below
3 mths at BNS 1.65
6 mths at BNS 1.69
9 mths at BNS 1.74
1YR 1.94%
2yr 2.55%

Anyone seen any 1 % deals out there?

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drejmd wrote:If you were "parking" money that you planned to spend on a down-payment for a house, is there any logic in putting it in XRE. Would XRE fluctauate with real-estate prices and in the meantime provide a yield that is much better than any GIC or HISA?
I would say the short answer is that the correlation is far too weak to make that anything other than a considerably risky strategy. This thread might be worth a look:

http://www.financialwisdomforum.org/for ... ilit=REITs
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Lazy Ninja wrote:
drejmd wrote:If you were "parking" money that you planned to spend on a down-payment for a house, is there any logic in putting it in XRE. Would XRE fluctauate with real-estate prices and in the meantime provide a yield that is much better than any GIC or HISA?
I would say the short answer is that the correlation is far too weak to make that anything other than a considerably risky strategy. This thread might be worth a look:

http://www.financialwisdomforum.org/for ... ilit=REITs
Thanks, good thread. Personally I am going to go with Adrian and Altared on this one. (ie. REITS donot equal HOUSES)
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Peoples Trust is offering 2.1% interest on its savings account. I find it a little more laborious than the usual bank accounts, but I feel well compensated for my time.
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Why wouldn't you at least keep your cash in a HIS? You can transfer to your chequing account whenever you need to. At least you would earn 1-2% which is better than nothing?
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I usually pay bills twice a month so I shift enough money from the HISA each time with enough extra for weekly cash withdrawals.
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Shakespeare wrote:for weekly cash withdrawals
What do you use cash for on a weekly basis? I think I have the same $100 in my wallet I had a couple months ago. Are you one of those people holding me up in the grocery checkout taking pennies out of change purse? :wink:

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I eat out daily for lunch and pay cash. I know it's more expensive but, living alone, it's a way to get out of the house.

Steak is usually several times a week. :thumbsup:
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AltaRed wrote:The latter point I agree with completely. But I never keep more cash than I need in my chequing account in any given month, even though my chequing account also pays minimal interest. I simply move cash from my HISA at the end, or beginning, of each month to my chequing account.
We have no HISA and minimal cash in chequing accounts. In our unregistered accounts, dividends are not usually reinvested. We do a monthly transfer to our chequing account to cover expenses. We also have about $50k in a monthly income fund (in unregistered a/c) which we use more or less same as some use HISA. It is more tax efficient than an HISA although susceptible to ups and downs of markets. We have enough other cash flow, so seldom sell units.
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If I used my RBC direct investing to invest in other banks investment savings accounts (such as dyn500) would the 100k cdic fall under RBC or Dundee?
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You can't use RBCDI for anything other than RBC HISAs like RBF 2010, 2020, 2030, and 2040. Each would be considered separately for CDIC limits.

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Just to clarify, fund-based Canadian dollar investment savings accounts are CDIC insured, however those from the same corporate entity would be combined for insurance purposes.

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Doug, welcome to FWF and thank you very much for the clarification.
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The finiki says: Several issuers offer similar funds from different corporate entities so that each fund has separate CDIC insurance.

Shakespeare's post says: You can't use RBCDI for anything other than RBC HISAs like RBF 2010, 2020, 2030, and 2040. Each would be considered separately for CDIC limits.

Doug Watt from CDIC communications says: Just to clarify, fund-based Canadian dollar investment savings accounts are CDIC insured, however those from the same corporate entity would be combined for insurance purposes.

I wonder if we should add to the finiki to make this clear. I had always wondered about this.

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You can't use RBCDI for anything other than RBC HISAs like RBF 2010, 2020, 2030, and 2040. Each would be considered separately for CDIC limits.
Except if RBCDI itself goes belly-up then there is no CDIC insurance.
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