A credit card balance transfer from one or
several high interest accounts to one new account with a special offer can be a valuable tool to use in reducing your credit card debt.
Today's rates
on high interest accounts are awfully low, but when applied to the proceeds of a home sale you can still generate substantial amounts.
Of course one big difference this year is that the
TFSA high interest account interest rate is 1.05 % unlike the 3 % offered last year.
I plan to open an
online high interest account to save for vacations, a U.S. dollar account, and an RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan).
I don't know about you, but if I had extra savings collecting cobwebs in so -
called high interest accounts as we all await a more confident stock investing climate, I'd be tempted to consider investments such as Lending Club notes or even foreign currency CDs (okay this is a topic for another article!)
If you put that on a credit card earning 2 % cash back, you'd earn $ 10 per month (you'd be earning ~ $ 20 per month from the interest, but there are
other high interest accounts out there).
Transferring Debt to a Lower Interest Credit Card A less assertive method of paying off credit card debt is to
transfer high interest accounts to credit cards with lower interest rates.
If you have $ 100 a month to put toward paying down balances (over and above the required monthly payments, of course), focus on paying off
high interest accounts.
There is nothing wrong with holding cash in
a high interest account until you find the right product at the right price rather than forcing yourself to buy because you think you haven't been active lately.
RBC and Scotia have
high interest accounts that are competitive.
I tend to let the dividends accrue in cash (we'll sweep them to
a high interest account so they are still working), but then once a quarter we look for the holding that is down the most (there's always one, it seems) and we will put it all into that one stock that is down — to get the higher yield.
If
your highest interest account also happens to be your largest balance, you could be paying for years on that account before you see it get paid off.
They take a good 28 % of that 1.80 % on
my high interest account)... so basicall, I am getting really less than a percent interest.
However, I'll add Coast Capital to the forum and chart for
the high interest accounts.
Putting your business earnings in
a high interest account is a simple way of earning extra income through interest.
Pay off
your highest interest account first, then move to the next highest interest account and pay that one off, and continue down the ladder until you are debt - free from all unsecured debt!
As you pay off one account, take a moment to celebrate, and then roll that payment over onto the next -
highest interest account.
When all balances are below 50 % then attend to
the highest interest accounts.
Are you helping pay as you save, or are you saving it up in
a high interest account so you can do a big payoff after the big day?
Once you figure out where to cut expenses and basically find money, now you will be in a position to use the extra money and starting paying off
your high interest accounts one by one.
Pay as much as you can towards
your highest interest account, and simply pay minimum payments on all of the other accounts.
My plan would be buy everything on it, pay the minimums & stick what I would have spent it on into
the highest interest account I can find.
Hard - to - access,
high interest accounts can make a big difference.
Homeowners often opt to take out home equity loans to pay off
high interest accounts.
If you can qualify for one of the zero percent rate or low rate introductory APRs, apply for the credit card with the best introductory rate and transfer the balance to the card from
your high interest account.
Their high interest accounts pay the same rate, and although their GICs are a little less than Ally, their TFSA pays 3.00 % which is 1 % higher than them.
After buying a car, I immediately begin saving each month (in
a high interest account) so that when it is time for a new car again, I will have enough money.
$ 25,000 minimum to invest in non-BMO money market (or
high interest account) mutual funds, and $ 5,000 minimum to invest in BMO money market funds.
It makes no real sense to lock your money into a GIC for x number of years when the return is so low it makes more sense to leave it in
a high interest account.
I would recommend that the e-fund be placed in
a high interest account.
What we do is to take the money we'd normally have paid in premiums and put it in
a high interest account that we don't touch.