Brokerage fees,
bank by bank

Because each schedule has its own conditions: a tier above 150 trades here, a maintenance fee under a threshold there, a commission-free platform elsewhere. One page per institution lets you read everything line by line, with the date it was checked.

From each institution's pricing page, read at the source. Each fee page states when it was checked, and whatever was not verified is written as “not checked” rather than guessed.

It depends on your trades, your balance and your account type. The calculator ranks the eight institutions from those three answers. On commissions alone, Wealthsimple, Desjardins, National Bank and Questrade sit at $0.

No: it is funded by the Wealthsimple referral program and says so up front. The figures are those of the schedules. Code LOIO3A gets you $35 in total, after the request form.