Glossary

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Commonly Used Acronyms

BNN - Business News Network
CCPC - Canadian controlled private corporation. An incorporated small business which may qualify for lower tax rates.
CDIC - Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation
CFP - Certified Financial Planner
CLU - Chartered Life Underwriter
CRA - Canada Revenue Agency
CPI - Consumer Price Index.
CPP - Canada Pension Plan
DB Pension - Defined Benefit pension; one in which the future payouts are known in advance
DC Pension - Defined Contribution pension; one in which future payouts depend upon pension fund returns
DCA - Dollar Cost Averaging
DVA - Dollar Value Averaging
DIY - Do-it-yourself (investor).
EAFE - Europe - Australasia - Far East Index.
EMT - Efficient Market Theory (also referred to as EMH, or Efficient Market Hypothesis)
ETF - Exchange-Traded Fund. A security that trades on a stock exchange and that, in sufficient quantity, is exchangeable with a defined basket of securities.
FWF - Financial Webring Forum
FX - Foreign Exchange
GIC - Guaranteed Investment Certificate. A certificate of deposit that is government-insured, usually by the CDIC (see above).
IPO - Initial Public Offering. When a formerly-private company becomes public, the stocks are offered to investors in an IPO.
IPS - Investment Policy Statement
LIRA - Locked-In Retirement Account. Generally similar to an RRSP but using pension funds from a former employer. No further contributions or early withdrawals are allowed by law. Also called an LRSP.
LRSP - Locked-In Retirement Savings Plan. See LIRA.
MER - Management Expense Ratio
MMF - Money Market Fund.
NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
OAS - Old Age Security
OSC - Ontario Securities Commission
OSFI - Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
REIT - Real Estate Investment Trust. A security that provides unitholders with rental income from real estate properties.
RESP - Registered Education Savings Plan.
RFP - Registered Financial Planner.
RRB - Real-Return Bond. An inflation-indexed bond issued by the Government of Canada and/or certain provincial governments.
RRIF - Registered Retirement Income Fund.
RRSP - Registered Retirement Savings Plan.
TFSA - Tax-Free Savings Account.
TIPS - Inflation-indexed bonds offered by the U.S. government.
SEDAR - System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval Securities related information for Canadian companies
TFL - The Fund Library
TSX - Toronto Stock Exchange

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