There is a popular conception that investors with online brokerage accounts are day-traders or web-savvy, young adults dabbling with a few bucks. Actually, they are rather similar to investors at full-service brokerages according to J.D. Power and Associates. The consultancy surveyed 2,696 clients of online discount brokers in May and ...

Bear markets have often been times when investors swear off stocks. But this time around, online discount brokerages are reporting sizable jumps in clientele during one of the steepest sell-offs in decades. Scotiabank’s discount broker, for example, racked up 60% growth in accounts over the past year. Other major online ...

I recently asked Professor Moshe Milevsky what he thought were some of the pitfalls of do-it-yourself (DIY) investing. Professor Milevsky teaches at York University and has published dozens of articles and several books on topics relating to personal-finance topics. Here is what he said:

The HowToInvestOnline blog is probably one of the best financial blogs you have never heard of. No other blogger seems to have it in their blog roll. It held a book give-away last summer and got only one response (and after the deadline).