Not exact matches
For instance, I know of one company that used to
run a national ad campaign that said «invest with advice»
even as it continued to sell its products through the no - advice discount
brokerage channel.
For DIY investors, Canadian discount
brokerages have quite a few treats in the form of deals and promotions
running this month, and perhaps
even a few tricks.
Frequent online traders making dozens of trades a day are the target, especially if their trading patterns causes the CRA to view them as
running businesses inside their TFSAs: if you or I traded that often we'd be losing a lot in trading commissions,
even at the $ 5 or $ 10 a pop that most online
brokerages charge.
Desjardins Online
Brokerage, for example, has had their $ 300 commission credit
running since October 2012 and
even though it is scheduled to expire, they may have to throw it a retirement party given how long it has been around.
One problem with that method is that I suspect a lot of investors will set up the account at TD but they won't switch to a discount
brokerage at the right time or at all which means in the long
run they will end up paying more fees compared to if they had just started buying ETFs
even when the account was fairly small.
The only other big bank - owned
brokerage offering a major prize contest is BMO InvestorLine and
even then, the contest is actually being
run by the parent BMO and spread across many different business units to qualify.
Finally, the «contests & other offers» covers any additional promotion that a
brokerage might be
running that is advertised to new or existing clients or
even to the general public (as most contests are generally open to more than just clients).
Stewart's formula appears to be reaping rewards
even in a fickle market: He started the
brokerage with one sales associate in 2000 and now has 22, making 1st Choice the largest independent real estate office in the Greater Utica — Rome, N.Y., region, says Carol Longo, who
runs the local REALTOR ® board.
The often unseen and
even unaccounted for costs of
running a
brokerage are so high.
This model is predicated on the idea that agents are offered an abundant level of training, encouraged to create a real estate business with a team atmosphere, have a say in how the
brokerage is
ran and
even allowed to share in the profit of the office.
My journey from being a college graduate to a licensed real estate agent and then
running my own
brokerage wasn't something I could have predicted
even five months ago.