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One of the drawbacks of opening up an RESP account to save for your child’s post-secondary education is that if the child ends up not attending post-secondary education or quits early, then there are some penalties applied when the RESP account is collapsed. RESP Withdrawal Kindle eBook How the penalties and taxes are applied if [...]
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This post is part of our scam category. With scams the best defense is often to discuss them and let people who haven’t run into them know how they work. Unfortunately, talking about scams can seem like a “how to” for scam artists, which IS NOT my intention here. I always love reading about scams [...]
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This page will contain the latest information on unemployment benefits extension information in 2010. How the current unemployment benefits tiers work Currently, Americans can qualify for the following unemployment benefits: 26 weeks of benefits offered by their state. Tier 1 – 20 weeks – paid by the government via the stimulus bill. Tier 2 – [...]
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TradeKing Customer-driven TradeKing is an award-winning online discount broker that charges a flat commission for any kind of equity order – be it market, limit or broker assisted. TradeKing only charges $4.95 per trade; Zecco is slightly lower at $4.50 per trade but has pricing tiers for different types of trade including $19.95 for broker-assisted [...]
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When making decisions about your financial future, it can be confusing and frustrating trying to understand the ins and outs of financial planning for retirement. Many people can’t afford to make a money mistake. Understanding IRA’s may be one of the more difficult aspects of planning for retirement savings goals. But gaining the knowledge of [...]
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ShareBuilder is a subsidiary of ING Bank and is consistently rated as one of the top discount online brokerages. If you have an ING Direct account, you can connected it with your ShareBuilder account which makes the entire process of investing simple – and creates the opportunity for ShareBuilder’s most notable feature of automatic investing. [...]
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As most of you know the Globe and Mail just had their annual blog competition. This year there were two categories (investing and personal finance) and only Canadian blogs were entered. Money Smarts ended up getting 4th place in the personal finance category. I was happy with this since the first three blogs are much [...]
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I’m often struck at the stark difference between salespeople and advisors, how oblivious some people seem to be to the difference and the lengths some salespeople will go to present themselves as advisors. It’s a spectrum, and the differences can be a little fuzzy, but if we think of a benevolent family doctor / general [...]
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We’ve just passed the third anniversary of Money Smarts Blog otherwise known as the blog formerly known as Four Pillars. Three years, about a thousand posts and I feel like we are just getting started. Thanks to all the readers who have read our stuff, commented and bloggers who have linked to us. Globe and [...]
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Mr Cheap is out of town and may (or may not) be responding to comments. Rest assured, he’ll read each carefully once he’s back. This post, obviously, isn’t meant to be a comprehensive overview of networking. Entire courses, books and seminars have been devoted to that. This is simply intended as a primer for people [...]
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For anyone checking out the Four Pillars site you might have noticed that the domain has changed to MoneySmartsBlog.com. This is the big change I alluded to a month ago. I picked the wrong weekend to do this switch as I haven’t even had time to change the header or a bunch of other stuff [...]
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In a recent real estate post, frequent commenter Ryan Martin made a suggestion, in reaction to a statement at the end of my post: Mr. Cheap: ”I’d certainly be willing to sell if the right opportunity presented itself, but I’m not in any rush either” Ryan Martin: ”Mr. Cheap, judging by your last paragraph, it [...]
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Over the last year I’ve started to get into a number of “web television” productions. These are short (ranging from 3 or 4 minutes to 15 minutes per episode) videos, made for release on the internet. The Guild (especially their music video, Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?), The Legend of Neil and the utterly [...]
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Reader Jazzmin26 recently e-mailed me after reading my Mint review and shared my security concerns. She asked for suggestions to “make my financial life simpler and not spent my weekends logging and tracking“. I’ve repeatedly wrote about how valuable I find measurement to be, but I agree with Jazzmin26 that it can sometimes be tough [...]
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If you missed Part 1 of this post last week, go check it out first (I’ll wait for you here). Last week’s post focused on criticisms of the Canadian Capitalist and the Canadian personal finance blogger community’s support of him. I didn’t think either of these criticisms were fair. Beyond, hopefully, demonstrating that bloggers are [...]
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