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ING Direct Goes To 3% For The New Years
Happy new years everyone! This was kind of a good change as I saw today that ING Direct has decided to increase its tax free savings account rate to 3%. As indicated on the fine print too, “Rate as at January 1, 2010 and (like the weather) is subject to change. Interest is calculated daily…
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Government Proposed Changes To TFSA Accounts
There hasn’t been too much news and happenings when it comes to tax free savings accounts since its launch. I would say the highlights would be how the interest rates took a huge dive which kind of killed the excitement of it for many. However, I was just browsing around and reading a piece about…
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ING Direct TFSA Rate To One Point Five Percent
I know on the ING Direct TFSA site the rate appeared to have dropped for about a month now, but I was hearing mixed stories about how some people were still getting the 3% rate. Thanks to some readers I guess this confirms that everyone is getting a 1.5% rate now.
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Scotiabank TFSA Rate Increases To One And A Half Percent
This is a good update for Scotiabank TFSA customers as the rate climbed up to 1.5% While the highest rate initially was about 2%, this is a pretty good increase considering almost everyone else seems to be dropping its rates. This could be a sign that the bigger banks are going to increase its rates…
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HSBC Rates Takes A Dip
Been awhile since anything really changed in the TFSA scene. HSBC’s TFSA rate fell by 0.2% not too long as you can see here: Guess it doesn’t really make too much of a difference, but a drop is a drop.
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ING Direct TFSA Increase To 3%
Maybe this was a Canada day boost, but it’s nice to know that at least one financial institution has dramatically bumped up its tax free savings account interest rate. As you can see, ING Direct is now at 3% which makes it the highest. Maybe that is a good sign that others will increase their…
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RBC TFSA Interest Rate Drop
This one was to surprising to me as I expected the bigger banks to drop its interest rates sooner or later. I guess you can add RBC to the mix as its new rate is 2.25% compared to its original 2.5% The rate is kind of interesting as it is in-line with Outlook Financial’s change…