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Where to Invest Your Cash Savings for Higher Yields

Money For the Rest of Us

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Is Telus a Spread Business?

We need to recognize when an entity is promising higher yields, we need to understand their business model. Lending and paying interest on deposits is a spread business; they have to earn money somehow through lending or some other activity in order to maintain the deposit. Telus raised $16 million earlier this year with investments by Andriss and Horowitz, the renowned venture capitalist firm. But again, as depositors at Telus, your deposits are not secured.

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