Beware of do-it-yourself investing - Solutions For Financial Planning*

How an advisor's support can help you avoid these 10 common pitfalls.

Do-it-yourself (DIY) investing has become more popular in Canada recently, with Canadians opening 2.3 million self-directed accounts in 2020 – nearly tripling the 846,000 accounts opened in 2019. Overlapping that growth, however, was a 270 per cent rise in complaints from DIY investors to the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) Complaints & Inquiries team...

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