How Canadian Markets Work

education, courses, business, investing · EN

Most financial content is trying to sell you something. This isn't. How Canadian Markets Work is a series about the machinery underneath Canadian finance — how capital actually moves from people who have it to people who need it, and who takes a cut along the way. Each episode is about twenty minutes and covers exactly one idea. Not three. One. Your hosts John and Jane work through it in conversation: John explains how the structure is built, Jane asks the question you were already thinking and pushes back when something doesn't add up. Across the series we cover how markets are organized, who regulates them and why, the economy behind the prices, bonds and how they're really priced, equities and how companies raise money, derivatives, reading a company's financial statements, mutual funds and ETFs and what they cost you, and how it all comes together in a portfolio. It's built for anyone who wants to unde