You still have to pay currency exchange fees for new
Canadian dollar contributions, but once the money is converted to US$, it stays in US$ and there are no currency exchange fees.
Not exact matches
A few companies, such as BCE and
Canadian National, have voluntarily made special
contributions worth hundreds of millions of
dollars to their employees» plans.
If the
Canadian dollar strengthens versus other currencies, it will most likely be accompanied by strength in the
Canadian economy, and rising earnings — and hence plan
contributions — of the CPP participants.
As none of the discount brokers provide the option of keeping cash in the RRSP in US
dollars, any
contribution to the RRSP in US
dollars would automatically be converted into
Canadian funds.
For example, if the US
dollar is currently valued at $ 1.05
Canadian, then a $ 10,000 US deposit would count as an RRSP
contribution of $ 10,500 CAD.
When you deposit US
dollars into a registered account, the brokerage records the
contribution in the equivalent amount of
Canadian dollars.