What is your debt management style and how can you improve?
How you deal with debt says a lot about your personality. Take this quiz to find out your debt management style, what motivates you to have that style and how you can use it to help get out of debt.
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What is Your Debt Management Style?
Understand your motivations and relationship with money and use that knowledge to find a debt management style and debt solutions that work for you.
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How to Manage Your Installment Loan
Tips to help manage your installment loan well so that you can protect or rebuild your credit score and get better rates in the future.
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4 Ways to Use Your Income Tax Refund
For many Canadians, their income tax refund represents an opportunity get ahead with some of their financial goals. Use yours wisely!
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How can easyfinancial help you rebuild your credit
Learn how easyfinancial products and services can help you rebuild your credit
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The 50-30-20 Rule and How You Can Use it to Guide Your Financial Planning
Needs versus wants: How much should you spend on each? We have a simple formula to try. The 50-30-20 Rule to help you budget and guide your financial planning
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Build a Good Credit Score with These 5 Habits
Building a good credit score can help you get approvals and good interest rates on such things as installment loans and mortgages. Make these monthly practices a habit and you'll be on way.
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Home Sweet Home. How to Pay Off Your Mortgage Faster
Every year, about one-third of mortgage holders take steps to decrease the amount they have to pay overall on their home financing.
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Do you know how to spring clean your finances?
Take this quiz to find out if you know how to start organizing and simplifying your finances.
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Money-saving tips every homeowner needs to know
If you want to save money as a homeowner, making a few changes around your house can save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year.
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Spring Clean Your Finances
Tidying up your finances is a lot like spring cleaning your house – you want to bring order to the chaos and live a better life. Here are 5 ways to tidy up your financial house.
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RRSPs and TFSAs: What’s the Difference?
Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are both great places to save. The main difference is RRSPs are for retirement savings and usually you can’t withdraw
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How to Talk to Your Honey About Money
Having open, honest, and consistent communication with your partner about finances is the most important step towards achieving a healthy financial future for your family.
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Do you know how to deal with financial distress?
Take this quiz and see what you already know, and don't know, about dealing with financial distress.
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Overcoming Financial Distress: How Do You Pay Your Bills When You Can’t Pay Your Bills?
The first thing to do when in financial distress is to take a deep breath and tell yourself there are options. The worst thing to do is avoid the problem. So, let’s take a look at what can be done.
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How to rebuild your credit after bankruptcy?
If you’ve had to declare bankruptcy or file a consumer proposal, it takes time and effort to rebuild your credit.
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Do you know how to cure your holiday bill hangover?
If you’re like many Canadians, you hit the credit cards pretty hard through the holiday season and January comes with an unpleasant holiday bill hangover. Do you know how to cure it?
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The Cure for the Holiday Bill Hangover
According to credit bureau TransUnion, the average Canadian carried $29,967 in non-mortgage debt in the third quarter of 2018, a 3.9% increase over the same period last year.
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