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1 As of March 1st, 2017. All private placement requests are subject to approval. The fee is charged upon Questrade's receipt of the request. If a request is rejected, the fee is non-refundable.
2 A shipping fee of USD $35 is charged for each 500oz or $100,000 of gold or silver, whichever is higher, withdrawn from pooled storage (your precious metals are stored together with other customers' metals). There is also an insurance fee of USD $6.50 charged on every $1,000 of gold and USD $6.50 on every $1,000 of silver. If your precious metals are stored separately from other customers' metals, please contact us for shipping and insurance fees.
3 Charged per purchase/redemption/Contribution-in-Kind of physical or electronic EMP at the time of transaction.
4 Waived with $15,000 CAD combined equity, per customer, in non EMPs.
5 Charged per account holding any EMP(s) on the 1st business day of: January, April, July, October.
6 As of June 1, 2018, accounts will be assessed a fee for the quarter in which they first acquire an EMP.
7 Invoiced to the dealer/issuer upon the first customer transaction in a new EMP fund.
8 The CPCC fee is charged when you move shares of a private Canadian corporation into your personal or corporate Questrade Inc brokerage account. No fee is charged to open a Questrade, Inc investing or trading account for your privately held corporation (corporate margin account).
9 Questrade currently charges a 1.5% currency conversion fee on Canadian to US dollar conversions (and vice versa). This fee was last updated November 18, 2023. The fee is included in the total foreign exchange rate that is applied to your conversion.
10Questrade remuneration has been added to the price of this security (in the case of a purchase) or deducted from the price of this security (in the case of a sale). For GICs, it’s included in the rate provided.
