CFN as a Forum Be a Contributor Logic behind CFN

The Canadian Financial Network was created with the belief that investors want information that is:

• timely
• easy to access
• accurate and
• useful

In 1995, there was no comprehensive finance source for Canada on the net. Canada needed a central financial information database, accessible by investors. A site was needed where an investor could learn about the Canadian capital markets, about Canadian financial companies; where he or she could compare them to global offerings, and find what's new in investment ideas. Such a place would allow investors or corporations to find as much information, in as much depth, as needed to make informed decisions.

With this in mind, CFN, an independent resource, was designed to describe the resources available in the world's largest financial library, the World Wide Web. We provide a categorized overview so that you can target the information that you want to access. Surfing may be fun but pre-qualified and categorized information retrieval is more efficient.

There is a dizzying array of specialized services on the web. Every major investment undertaking is represented. Some examples include:

Stock quotes, comprehensive US mutual fund sites, Canadian mutual fund listing services, resources for investors seeking mining company information, many financial newsletters, stockbrokers, databases of corporate filings, charting services, banks, economic news and forecasts, financial news, and on and on.

CFN helps make sense of this confusion. It is a guide or catalogue for these global investment and financial resources and, conveniently, it uses categories that reflect investor interest. Our revised format and our new search engine will make you more efficient.

We search the Web constantly to stay as up to date as possible with new sites and services. We provide a brief description of each and every site we visit. CFN is the most extensive index of categorized pre-qualified business resources with a Canadian perspective available.