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Online Brokerage & Guided Portfolios


Write Your Own Future and explore online investing with Qtrade Direct Investing™. We’ve partnered with Qtrade Direct Investing™ to give you the confidence to buy and sell stocks, bonds, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), and mutual funds – with low trading fees.

Want an option that is more automated? Try Qtrade Guided Portfolios®, a simple and convenient digital investing service that provides you with a professionally managed, low-cost portfolio to match your personal financial goals, timeline and risk tolerance. Qtrade Guided Portfolios® offers investment portfolios for a wide range of investor needs, including Responsible Investing options

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Exceptional value: $8.75 stock trades for everyone, regardless of your account value, and $6.95 stock trades for more active traders. Plus, choose from 60 free ETFs and trade mutual funds commission free.

Outstanding service: Prompt, friendly service is part of the Qtrade experience. Get the right answers and solutions, right away. Knowledgeable investment representatives are ready to help you open a new account, transfer funds, or place a trade.

Accounts you need: Non-registered and registered accounts, including cash, margin, RSP, TFSA, RESP, RIF, and more.

Investment choices: Build a diversified portfolio from a wide range of investments including stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, bonds, GICs, and options, plus new issues/IPOs.

Planning and research tools: In-depth research and powerful tools to help you set goals, find and evaluate investing ideas, and review your portfolio. Qtrade gives you all the essentials, plus plenty of extras, including real-time quotes, analysts’ recommendations, market news, investment screening tools, model portfolios, technical data, and much more.

Convenient access: Stay connected to the markets, wherever, whenever. Invest, monitor your portfolio positions and access market information online, with Qtrade Mobile for iPhone and iPad, or with MobileWeb for Android and other mobile browsers.

Award-winning trading experience: Qtrade’s easy-to-use and comprehensive trading platform has consistently been rated among Canada’s best by independent reviewers, including The Globe and Mail, Morningstar® and MoneySense.

Qtrade Guided Portfolios®

Qtrade Guided Portfolios® offers investment portfolios for a wide range of investor needs, including Responsible Investing options. Core portfolios track the performance of Canadian, U.S. and global stock and bonds. Responsible Investing portfolios make a positive impact beyond a financial return. The investment managers evaluate investments based on environmental, social and governance performance and work directly with companies to encourage improvements in their sustainability as well as their growth. Getting started is easy. Tell Qtrade Guided Portfolios® a little about yourself and you’ll receive a recommendation for an expertly designed portfolio that fits your needs. Then fund your account online and Qtrade Guided Portfolios® will do the rest for you. Qtrade Guided Portfolios® provides:

  • A fully automated service so you don’t have to make any investment decisions
  • A professionally managed portfolio of high-quality investments that are diversified across geographies, sectors and industries
  • Continuous oversight and regular rebalancing by our team of experts
  • Mobile apps for tracking your investments
  • Friendly support from knowledgeable investment representatives by email and phone

Online brokerage services are offered through Qtrade Direct Investing, a division of Aviso Financial Inc. Qtrade, Qtrade Direct Investing, and Write your own future are trade names and/or trademarks of Aviso Wealth Inc.

Qtrade Guided Portfolios is powered by Aviso Wealth, one of Canada’s leading independent financial services providers. Aviso oversees billions in assets under administration and management. It is owned by the provincial credit union Centrals, The Co-operators/CUMIS and Desjardins. Qtrade Guided Portfolios is a trade name of Aviso Financial Inc., Member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund.

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