Investing and Personal Finance
Happy Canada Day for those of you who are Canadian. I was doing some unpacking last week and I found a bunch of unopened mail and various other documents. I haven’t moved lately, but I still had a box or two of junk to go through from my 2nd last move (six years ago). Anyway, [...]
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Most Canadians do their investing with banks or financial advisors. When they want to invest in equities, typically mutual funds are used. Whether they are high priced or low priced, mutual funds are pretty easy to buy. You just tell your advisor which funds to buy and hand a cheque over. Even if you are [...]
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I’ve managed to meet my weight goal of staying under 180 pounds for the last three weeks. I’ve always been able to lose weight quite easily, but keeping it off is the hard part. I am determined to keep going with this lighter weight! On with the links Financial Uproar had a great post about [...]
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Rob Carrick wrote about breaking the seal on the information vacuum where he covers recent proposals by the OSC and other regulators to force investment companies to disclose more information to investors. Mr. Carrick says that as a result of these changes “Things are going to be a lot different around here”. The financial information [...]
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I’ve done the last of the new material for the 2nd edition of the RESP Book. Which of course means – no more posts on RESPs! Yay!! Congrats to the Bruins for winning the Stanley Cup – I was cheering for the Canucks, but Boston definitely deserved the win. On with the links Sheryl Smolkin [...]
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The RESP Book: The Simple Guide to Registered Education Savings Plans Everything you need to know about RESPs. |
Group RESPs are RESP accounts where the earnings and grants of all the participants are grouped together. The plans are set up by birth year, so if your child was born in 2006, they will be grouped together in a plan with other kids who were also born in 2006. One third of all RESP [...]
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Busy week here on MSB with three posts. Unfortunately, they were all RESP-oriented. That should change soon as I have only one more article to write for the 2nd edition of the book. On with the links Support Spy has some good tips on using group discount sites (like Groupon). Dan Hallet notes that [...]
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Family RESP plans are very popular with families that have more than one child. Family plans save on account fees, paperwork and the best benefit is that if one child doesn’t use their RESP money, it can be easily shared with a sibling. Normally, you would share RESP money from the older child with the [...]
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Have you ever seen one of those ads promising big investment returns if you subscribe to a stock tip newsletter or sign up for an expensive trading course? Well, have I got a deal for you! This investment tip is guaranteed to give you a 20% return with a maximum time frame of two months. [...]
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American Index Fund and ETF giant Vanguard has announced they are setting up shop in Canada. The company indicated last fall that they were planning this move, but today was the first official announcement. They aren’t releasing any investment product information, but it’s reasonable to think that eventually they will offer both exchange trade funds [...]
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I decided to take last week off on a blogging vacation. Things have been pretty busy and it was quite nice to take some time off. Fitness updates I haven’t mentioned the diet or the pushups lately, so here is an update: Weight – After dropping down to 180.0 lbs (from around 191) earlier this [...]
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