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October 23, 2013
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January 28, 2015
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May 28, 2013
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stingray said
Hi…I have a situation where I enrolled in the 2.5% regular savings account at Zag in mid Jan 2016 and noticed up to today Feb 8/16 NO interest paid…spoke to CSR with promise to rectify on Feb5/16…still no action…wondering about this bank...has this happened to anyone else…?thank you
My initial deposit of $25 showed up in my ZAG acount on Jan 19, and the subsequent $98K arrived Jan. 28. Zag paid me $26.80 in interest on Jan 31. So, I think my interest calculations are fine.
2:55 pm
October 11, 2015
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Hello fellow savers.
I jumped into ZAG headfirst with multiple GICS including a TFSA and RRSP GIC.
Of course they do not/will not send statements in the mail (no name service). As well, you can only look up transactions in a 3 month window. (i called CSR and found out that you can do a range of dates to a maximum of 3 months).
Unbeknown to me, the 2.5% interest on the GIC is not compounded. They take the monthly interest amount and place it in a different savings account which currently receives 1.6%.
It is a total nightmare to "follow the money".
Apparently I told them to pay the interest monthly, so they are putting it in a lower interest savings account. I was never advised that there were any other options. After speaking with a supervisor today, he claims that based on my comments, they will try and improve the website. (yeah right). Once these GICs mature, I will probably leave ZAG for good.
3:56 pm
June 22, 2016
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... not sure what the complaint here is ....
You had purchased a GIC @ 2.5% with no compounding and monthly payout of interest to your savings account. You could hardly expect ZAG to place your interest in a savings account earning 2.5% as Zag does not offer 2.5%, they offer 1.6% as you stated. You can now leave the interest in your ZAG savings account @ 1.6% or transfer the money to another institution at a higher interest rate (maybe PC Financial @2.25%).
7:58 pm
October 21, 2013
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Her complaint is that she didn't know that the interest would not be compounded. If it had been compounded, then the 1.6 rate wouldn't matter.
I don't deal with ZAG so I don't know if they make this clear when you take out GICs with them.
Most GICs, in my experience, do include compounded interest unless you set them up for regular income stream, e.g. in retirement. This has probably been dentgal's experience as well or she wouldn't be surprised.
I'm sure that in future she will be checking the fine print to make sure all her GICs are set up the way she wants them.
Oaken is a good example of how this works in a way that is clearly communicated. If you want monthly payouts etc., you get a lower rate of interest, and their rates charts make it very clear. Too bad ZAG didn't make theirs as clear, but it's a common way to make interest rates look higher than what you are going to get.
However, the solution now is to do exactly as bali says. Now that she knows about it, dentgal can mark her calendar to pull the interest when it is paid out and put it somewhere else where she can, hopefully, get as good or better return!
In my opinion, it ought to be possible to set it up so that the interest is paid out to an external account at the FI of choice, but they may not be willing or able to do that.
Not being able to get statements more than 3 months back s*cks. They have that information, and you should be able to get access to it as well. They have to keep that info for CRA among other things.
I am not sure how long you have had these GICs and can't remember when ZAG started. Hopefully just one year. I would be a bit concerned about the non-registered GIC. Hopefully it is for enough money that they are obliged to send you a tax receipt for each year. Make sure you receive that in the new year, especially since it's not clear that you know how much it should be for, and it will also include interest on the savings account which you may not know if too many months have elapsed. At that point, if not before, you should be able to verify that you were paid correctly and make sure your tax return is complete.
For what it's worth, I try to check all my accounts at the beginning of every month.
Something else to bear in mind in regards to the RSPs and TFSAs, particularly in view of ZAG's short leash on statements, is that once you have moved these investments to another FI, it is very unlikely that the "old" one, i.e. ZAG, will still have any records at all that you can retrieve. So it is best to check, save, and print those regularly and also just before you make a transfer or cash out.
Live and learn!
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April 6, 2013
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I remember this issue.
Zag's web site for purchasing GIC's was not clear. I wrote about that earlier.
It had looked like one was selecting monthly posting and compounding of interest. However, one was actually selecting monthly payout of interest!
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