At Henley Financial and Wealth Management we are here to help you save money wherever we can, we want to help you save money being spent unknowingly and unwillingly.
So, let’s start with something we know that everyone has… a bank account.
Why do you pay a monthly fee just to keep your money in a bank account? Canada’s big 5 banks have been raking in the profits from monthly chequing account fees and additional transaction charges. We’ll even go out on a limb and say you do most if not all of your transactions online.
We have all fallen into this category once we got out of school and were no longer eligible for a free student chequing account. We use debit cards for everything, so our banks recommended that we sign-up for the “unlimited” chequing account for $14.95 per month. Again, we ask why do you pay to keep your money at the bank when you do all the work? You put your pay check in the bank and take it out of the bank without any assistance from them and you pay for that service – but there is no service. Spending money Unwillingly because this is not an option. We will come back to that “option” part later.
Since most of us lived paycheque-to-paycheque in the first few years out of school we didn’t even realize how much money we were wasting on fees. You can have those monthly fees waived by always carrying a minimum balance, but how many people could do that on a fixed start up budget.
You probably pay up to $179 a year for the privilege of using your own money in your chequing account at your bank. So, think of that as a household, your Husband/Wife, and children also have accounts so as a family (of four) you are paying over $717 a year in bank fees! That is the Unknowingly because you never stopped to do the math. Now it does not seem like much but remember you are doing all the work and it’s your money that was put in their hands.
So now that you know and are willing to save the money, would you stop paying the bank fees and switch to no fee bank account?
Here is the “Option” part we spoke of earlier, Manulife Bank has an advantage checking a online account (personal or business) that pays you an interest percentage to keep your money with them. Now that’s a service that makes sense to us, you get paid to keep your money in your own account with no penalty for using your own money. A bank with several unique features such as listed below:
- no fee daily chequing
- pays interest
- 24/7 live support
- free email money transfers
- free ABM access through the banking network
- mobile banking
Now that free chequing accounts are becoming more popular in Canada, there are many more non brick and mortar banks with high interest savings accounts than Manulife. We like Manulife because of their willingness to help with other financial needs we all need as adults, such as Mortgages, Credit cards, lines of credit, with the emphasis on keeping the money in your hands. No more Fees Lost Unknowingly or Unknowingly!!!!
Contact Us at Henley Financial and Wealth Management and we will help you set up a No Fee, High Interest Paying, Account with Manulife Bank.
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