Ask Lizzie: How Do I Know If I’m “Paying My Dues” or “Getting Taken Advantage of”?

Our columnist looks at the incredibly slow changes happening in corporate culture — and how (and when) to stand up for yourself.

The Bond Market Fell, Hard. An Explainer for Normal Humans

A steep selloff in government securities has unnerved Wall Street — and made individual investors question whether bonds are even worth holding anymore. Here’s what’s going on.

How to Make Your Money Make Money

One problem with having so many great places to earn a return on your money? It can be hard to keep them straight — and even harder to choose the right one.

Two Genius Moves to Make With Your Tax Refund

If you’re among the millions of Canadians getting a tax refund this year, you have a choice to make. You can spend that money, which would be fun. Or you can turn it into more money, which would be smart.

We Have a Fancy New Way to Diversify Your Portfolio — And It Targets a 9% Yield

Wealthsimple’s Private Credit lets you earn money like a huge institutional investor: by making loans to companies and collecting interest.

How Safe is a Bank Account?

Or stocks or a GIC, for that matter? In the wake of a banking industry panic attack, here’s a guide to deposit insurance, custodian companies and everything else you need to know to figure out your money security.

Canadians Say They Need $1.7M to Retire. We Calculated How to Get There

But there are some ways to make it easier. (Like starting now: hitting that goal gets a LOT harder the longer you wait to invest.) We did the math.

A Freelancer’s Guide to Saving Like a Corporate Lifer

Self-employment comes with a lot of perks, mostly involving not having a boss. The tradeoff? No savings or retirement benefits. Womp womp. That means freelancers need to create their own savings strategy. Here’s how.

Six Tax Enigmas That Confuse Basically Everyone

OK, OK: they’re not technically enigmas, but these are the things most likely to trip you up when it comes time to file. We make sense of the madness and hopefully spare you some confusion.

The Perfect Guide to Every Annoying Tax Question You Have

Or at least the 13 most common, thorny questions. We assembled our Wealthsimple Tax team to answer everything you were afraid to look up on the internet and we promise the answers are easy to understand.

Dumb Questions for Smart People: The Pioneer of Burnout Theory Tells Us About Millennials and Money

Anne Helen Petersen, journalist and author of the forthcoming book "Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation", explains how things are different for the generation the world seems to love to hate.

Everyone Knows Canadian Monopolies Are a Problem. Why Can’t We Do Anything About It?

If you thought a regular Monopoly game was long and boring, Canada’s been playing its own version for, oh, 200 years. The host of the Canadaland podcast “Commons” explains how we got here, how limited competition hurts everyone, and what we can do about it.

What’s the Legacy of the $GME Mania? We Asked the “Dumb Money” Writers to Weigh In

It has (somehow) been almost three years since a group of Very Online retail traders cost Wall Street hedge funds billions of dollars by piling into GameStop shares. Here is what has, and hasn’t, changed in the time since.

How 2023 Cracked Wall Street’s Crystal Ball

We asked Kyla Scanlon — a writer, video creator, and podcaster (surely you’ve seen her financial explainers on social media, right?) — to unpack why pro investors guessed all wrong about what would happen this year.

2023: The Year of FOMM (Fear of Making Money)

Stocks have boomed this year. Yet many DIY investors have sprinted from markets — and missed out on big returns. What spooked them?

The 10 Most Interesting People in Money Right This Second

End Times for Tech Stocks?

OK, OK: tech stocks aren’t dying. But there’s a case to be made that rising interest rates could end their decade-plus-long dominance, which has everyone wondering: what comes next?

How Long is This Bear Market Going to Last?

A recovery explainer for these please-tell-us-a-recovery-is-coming-soon times.

2022: The Year We Said Farewell to FOMO

In the past twelve months, memestocks exploded, crypto collapsed, and the major stock indices slid. Felix Salmon makes sense of the market craziness and explains how — we actually got kind of lucky?

The Story of the Stock Market, Told by Five Companies

These stocks help to explain what the heck happened in Q3 2022.