Investing and Personal Finance
Last weekend I took my kids to the beach at Ashbridges Bay. It was sunny and about 24 degrees Celsius which is pretty amazing for the end of September. The waves were fairly large, which was a lot of fun for the kids and myself. The water wasn’t as warm as it had been during [...]
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Last weekend we went to the lovely city of Kingston, Ontario. It was a short trip – we left early Saturday morning and got home at dinner time on Sunday. A friend of mine invited us for a bbq and we decided to go (at the last minute), since I hadn’t seen him and a [...]
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Carnival of Financial Planning 09-16-2011 Best Personal Financial Planning and Personal Investment Articles this Week from Personal Finance Blogs Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #202 – September 16, 2011 Welcome to the September 16, 2011 Edition #202 of the Carnival of Financial Planning. The Carnival of Financial Planning takes a long-term view of personal [...]
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Last weekend I went to see the band Erasure who played at the Sound Academy (used to be the Docks) here in Toronto. It was the first concert I had been to in a few years and was it ever good! Andy Bell can really sing (still) and they put on a fun show. The [...]
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On Wednesday I participated in a Globe & Mail online Q&A chat on RESPs – you can read all the questions and answers here. The Q&A was a lot of fun. I wasn’t sure what to expect in the way of questions, but there were a lot of good topics covered. Thanks to Roma Luciw [...]
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I bought a few more camping supplies last weekend at Canadian Tire. There were no price discrepancies this time, but it wouldn’t be a CT trip without some kind of incident. I was walking along the sidewalk to our car with my two kids riding in the shopping cart. Up ahead there were two carts [...]
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We did our big camping trip last weekend at Awenda Provincial Park which is about an hour north of Barrie, Ontario. It went very well, although Saturday was pretty rainy. Luckily our friends thought to bring a big tarp, so we had a dry place to hang out. The weekend ended up being really fun. [...]
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I’m on holiday this week (from the day job at least) and one of our activities was a day trip to Windy Lake Provincial Park. We had a great time – the lake is beautiful and there is a very nice beach which the kids loved. We checked out the campsite area and it appears [...]
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Pretty exciting week in the markets this week. Maybe a little bit too exciting for some. I’ve been below my 75% equity allocation for several months due to an RRSP transfer and general portfolio neglect. I find it hard to buy a big chunk of equities all at once after the market has risen so [...]
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The big drama this week is in Washington as both political parties are fighting over whether the debt ceiling should be raised. At stake are all the various financial obligations of the US government: Social Security payments, government worker wages, interest payments on debt etc. If the ceiling isn’t raised in time, then the government [...]
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One of the links below discusses how expensive houses are. I like my house, but when I think of all the money we have to put into the basement (it’s a complete disaster down there) and a new garage, it is a bit discouraging. We’re going to be mortgage-free next year and while I had [...]
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I’ve been having trouble finding time for posting lately – work, holidays, exercise, and the Tour de France have all been taking up a lot of my time. The good news is that I’ve been exercising a ton and I feel like I’m getting into decent shape. This morning I weighed in at 174.5 pounds [...]
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I’ve been on holiday this week and my best intentions of doing a second (and better) post this week as well as making some progress on the RESP book 2nd edition were thwarted by an illness. Oh well. I’m feeling better now and the holiday is not over, so hopefully I can salvage something. MoneySense [...]
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Mike from the Financial Blogger has written an ebook about dividend investing. It’s a pretty good resource which explains why dividend investing is a good idea, how to select stocks and how to get started with the whole process. I might consider a book on the same topic in the future, but I can tell [...]
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Time once again to update the big stock picking contest. The great news is that I’m not in last place! My specific pick was to short the gold ETF CGL. What is CGL you ask? It is the Claymore Gold Bullion ETF which trades on the TSX and only invests in gold. Check out my [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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