Million Dollar Journey gives his views on the 2009 Budget My Two Dollars wrote about a restaurant where the staff voted to work for tips only. Preet has a book giveaway. Financial Blogger talks about Critical Illness Insurance. The Money Gardener reflects on the recession. Good Financial Cents discusses types of trusts and when you [...]
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It’s not terribly enlightening to assert that the threat of punishment or the promise of reward goes a long way to explaining people’s actions. Similarly, it’s probably a pretty simplistic view of negotiation to say that it is understanding their perspective, then structuring incentives for other person to do what you want. I’m not a [...]
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I recently read John T. Reed’s “How to Buy Real Estate for at Least 20% Below Market Value” (Vol. 1) and enjoyed it. He warns that the book is only applicable for buying in America (and actually refuses to sell it internationally, an American friend got it for me for Christmas). He’s right that the [...]
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I recently received a copy of “New Rules of Retirement” written by investment advisors Warren MacKenzie and Ken Hawkins. Now if you’re wondering why I would even bother looking at a book written by a couple of investment advisors, I should clarify that these guys are not the normal “mutual fund/used car salesman” type of [...]
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A quick note to let everyone know that wolfe and Swati are the winners. I’ll be in touch with them by email to work out the delivery.
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It was interesting to watch some of the inauguration speech by US President Obama this week. While I think it’s great that a black man is president of the US – I thought the far more important milestone in US history this week was that George Bush is no longer in office. As a Canadian, [...]
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President Obama has proposed an economic stimulus tax cut package for 2009 which contain about $275 billion worth of tax cuts to individual tax payers as well as businesses. The big question is – does this package contain a stimulus check in 2009? The idea behind this money is to promote individual spending as well [...]
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There’s an old parable about 4 blind Indian mystics trying to describe an elephant. The first, running his hand along the elephant’s side says “elephants are rough and wrinkled”. The second mystic, touching the elephant’s tusks declares “no they aren’t, they’re hard and smooth”. The third, feeling the trunk, argues “well, at least we can [...]
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Don’t forget to enter in the contest to win one $50 gift card at Chapters.ca. There are two cards to giveaway and so far only 30 comments so get over there! You have to leave a comment (on the contest post, not this one) saying what if any changes you are going to make to [...]
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Questrade discount brokerage has just come out with a great way for retail mutual fund owners to save on high management fees by offering to rebate up to 1% of those fees. What’s the deal with the Questrade mutual fund rebate? Questrade will rebate up to 1% of the management fee for any mutual funds [...]
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This post will upset some readers. I won’t insist that readers promise not to be offended or anything like that, but if you’re not in the mood to read something that may get you worked up, you might want to skip today’s post. If you’re angry and don’t have the time to write a well [...]
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Intelligent Speculator is a blog about investing, news and comments about the markets and the relevant news. It also supplies users with free stock picks that will hopefully help you get ahead. You can visit the blog at IntelligentSpeculator.net and subscribe to the RSS feed here. It was mid-November, the market had reached new lows [...]
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As a member of the BMO (Bank of Montreal) share purchase plan (and drip), I recently received a notice that there is now a 2% discount on any shares bought through the dividend reinvest plan (DRIP). Please note that this is the share purchase plan run through Compushare – it doesn’t apply to shares bought [...]
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As you can see, I’ve installed a new theme on Four Pillars. If you are reading this in an email or feed reader then feel free to click on through to the site to check it out. I’ve been wanting a new theme for a while and finally made the decision to buy a theme [...]
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Glenn Cooke, President of InsureCan, is sponsoring a contest on this blog (and a few others listed below) where you can win one of two $50 Chapters gift cards. Here’s how to enter the contest: In the comments – please answer the following question “Have you changed (or are you going to change) your asset [...]
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Weight 182 pounds – down 1 pound from last week which is good. Didn’t run this week because of knee problems which are hopefully temporary. The Links Jordan’s post this week on investing part of a house down payment in stocks reminded me of a Rob Carrick article on investing lessons learned over the past [...]
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I’ve written before about quotes being twisted for various purposes and being misleading. One witticism for real estate investing which means what it says is “Buy land! They aren’t making any more of it”. The wisdom that’s supposedly encapsulated in this saying is that there is a finite amount of space on planet Earth and [...]
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This guest post is written by Mike from the The Oblivious Investor. This blog has been around for a few months and is very investment oriented (but not too techy) so I would recommend you check it out (I’m a regular reader). For me, the above quote was enough to make Bogle’s Little Book of [...]
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The Canadian financial press has been very kind to Four Pillars, so I was excited when Power Publishers offered us a review copy of Jonathan Chevreau’s new book “Findependence Day”. Most Canadians interested in personal finance already know Jonathan Chevreau from his column in the Financial Post. While Mr. Chevreau has written previous books on [...]
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Jordan has agreed to help out the crack writing staff here at Four Pillars by contributing the occasional post. He is a young guy living and working from home in Vancouver with his wife and 2 young kids. Jordan is a computer geek at heart and last year discovered he also had a hidden passion [...]
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