Comments on: Revisiting High-Interest Savings Accounts

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This and That: Interest rates, Rob Arnott and more… | MoneySense — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:57:21 +0000

[...] Revisiting High-Interest Savings Accounts [...]

By: UncJDog

UncJDog — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:27:14 +0000

Some of these articles are so old they are completely irrelevant & should be updated or removed.
i.e showing rates of returns on savings accounts that are over 4%!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:44:59 +0000

The key is RBC. If you have a visa with them (no fee Visa is fine) as well as an RRSP (no minimum) then your chequing account activity is free. So buy a tiny RRSP with them, apply for a credit card, and do the rest of your banking free.

By: Shoeb Ahmed

Shoeb Ahmed — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:38:36 +0000

Go to http://www.canadiancapitalist.com/2008/02/24/high-interest-savings-accounts-revisited

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:26:34 +0000

Sherrylyn: Try PC Financial. They offer free chequing account with no fees, free chequebooks etc. For savings account, you can simply pick one from the list by first checking that there are no fees. It’s true that ING doesn’t offer the best rate anymore but they are near the top and have no fees whatsoever.

By: Sherrylyn

Sherrylyn — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:17:40 +0000

I’ looking for low or no bank fees, no minimum balance, high interest rate savings, chequing account in Canda. I have read that ING direct no longer offers the best interest rate.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:26:12 +0000

Rob, the US has FDIC. Those who were NetBank customers found that out when their bank was shut down recently. (Actually, ING Direct was able to “buy” the customers for only 10% down.)

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:17:08 +0000

Yes, ICICI banks customer service is still bad. Any time that I ever called them, it felt a lot like I was on a tan-can & string phone. I assume that they were using VOIP and you could feel the lag. The CSRs don’t seem to give a crap about politeness when dealing with customers. It was quite common to have to call multiple times to have something simple done.

There website is also abysmal. Setting up a recurring transfer was a royal PITA, they listed Semi-Monthly transfers but really meant every two weeks.

This is all as of August, 2007 or so. I have since left them and returned to using my old ING account.

By: ashish

ashish — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:10:26 +0000

i was surprised to know that 70% of icici clients are canadians and other foreign nationalities though its an indian bank.i have good experience dealing with the csr’s,in brampton branch.

By: LMG

LMG — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:49:02 +0000

telly,
You mention that “(I love PC but since my pay is in US$ it makes sense to use TD – TD Banknorth for transfers.)” Are you directly transferring money between a US Bank and a CDN Bank? I work in the states and was looking for a direct transfer but haven’t found one yet?

Can you help me out with some details?