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3% of Canadians were victims of a pyramid or Ponzi scheme.
Initiative: Canadian Financial Capability Survey
Adopter: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
About 40% of Canadians understand when it is financially beneficial to borrow money.
Initiative: Canadian Financial Capability Survey
Adopter: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
About 40% of Canadians compared credit cards from different companies before applying.
Initiative: Canadian Financial Capability Survey
Adopter: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
About 75% of Canadians understand what lowers house mortgage costs.
Initiative: Canadian Financial Capability Survey
Adopter: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
About 70% of Canadians say they are financially preparing for retirement.
Initiative: Canadian Financial Capability Survey
Adopter: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
Fewer than 10% of Canadians reported using a Buy-Now-Pay-Later service during 2021. Most of them understood the amount of each scheduled payment.
Initiative: Pilot Study: Buy Now, Pay Later Services in Canada
Adopter: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
65% of QUBER users accepted and successfully completed a saving challenge, and of those, 80% continued with other saving goals.
Initiative: QUBER App
Adopter: QUBER
80% of QUBER users accepted a saving challenge, and of those, more than 80% successfully completed the challenge.
Initiative: QUBER App
Adopter: QUBER
Canadians’ top preference for receiving information about their investments is through digital channels (68%) followed by meeting with their advisor or getting a paper copy of their investment banking statement (15% each).
Initiative: Investor Survey
Adopter: Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization
The most common reasons given for not opening an RDSP were: 1) not having enough money to save (46%); 2) lacking information about the RDSP program (29%); and 3) feeling it was too complicated (15%).
Initiative: Survey on Savings for Persons with Disabilities
Adopter: Statistics Canada
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