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TD: losing retirement accounts????? Yup.

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  • How can this be? Surely you jest. See, e.g.
    Flawed Paperwork Aggravates a Foreclosure Crisis, NYTimes, 2010
    https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/business/04mortgage.html

    (Just the first random article I happened to hit.)

    IMHO there are at least two important takeaways:

    1. Always check your statements. The boilerplate verbiage from financial institutions to do this is there for a couple of reasons:
    - Actually checking helps find problems like the ones written about when they first occur.
    - The verbiage protects the institutions in case there is a problem and you failed to check. This is a defense mentioned in the article.

    2. Hold onto your statements "forever", or at least until there's no more money left to trace. Financial institutions may destroy records after a finite period of time, as allowed by law, e.g. "TD does retain records for RSP accounts for seven years, in accordance with applicable provincial laws."


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