Investing and Personal Finance
I’ve started a new diet. Long time readers will recall I went through a diet phase a couple of years ago. At that time I went from about 200 pounds down to around 180 pounds. Unfortunately, my weight crept back up to around 191 lbs, so I decided it was time to get the diet [...]
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I read about an interesting way to manage your sock collection on Larry MacDonald’s blog a while ago. He reviewed the book Early Retirement Extreme and learned that if you throw out all your socks and buy a whole bunch of identical socks, you can avoid the problem of having to match pairs of socks [...]
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Ok, I’m doing the big stock picking contest again. In 2010, I finished dead last with a -35% return, so hopefully this year will be a bit better. I want to do the same bet as I did last year – bet against gold. I’m so certain that gold will finally crash this year, I’m [...]
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At the beginning of the year I entered into a stock picking contest with some other bloggers, as I do every year. I decided to swing for the fences this year and I ended up missing the ball and cranking myself in the head with the bat. I placed a bet against the price of [...]
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Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all have a great 2011. Personal Review When I look back at 2010, it was a very good year financially for my family – record income, record mortgage payments, record RRSP contributions. Health-wise, it wasn’t so good. It seemed like some or all of us were always sick [...]
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Christmas is coming up quickly – Happy holidays in advance! I haven’t decided my posting schedule yet, but it will likely be light(er) than usual for the next 2 or 3 weeks. On with the links Tim Ferriss is well known for his 4-hour work week. But maybe Ferriss is just a big fraud? This [...]
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I recently had the pleasure of talking with Dianne Nice of the Globe & Mail about year-end tips for RESP account. You can read the entertaining article called: When it comes to your RESP, keep your eye on the ball. Long after Barbie’s shoes have been sucked up the vacuum, their RESP money will still [...]
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As I mentioned recently, I bought a flat screen tv. I also picked up a articulating wall mount, which allows the tv to be moved around. I needed it because I wanted to put the tv in a corner. It ended up being a minor construction project since the plate which you attach to the [...]
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Mike Piper from the Oblivious Investor has come out with a book about retirement planning called Can I Retire? Mike has written several book covering various investment topics and American taxes. This particular book is aimed at investors who are trying to figure out how much money they need to retire and how to manage [...]
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See a comprehensive Mint.com review. I do a lot of networking with other bloggers – one of the issues that has come up over the past year has been non-payment for services from Mint.com. I haven’t done any business with them myself, but I’ve had to listen to endless complaining from my various blogger friends – [...]
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I wrote an article for Moneyville (Toronto Star blogging site) about the scary post-secondary educational cost estimates that you see in the media from time to time. While it is expensive to go to college or university, things are not as bad as they seem. Please check out the article – Debunking 8 myths about university [...]
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I bought a plasma tv recently. This may not seem like a big deal for most of you, but I have been thinking about buying a flat screen tv for over a decade. In 2000, I couldn’t decide what kind of flat screen to buy and I ended up buying a 27″ tube tv instead [...]
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I want to tell you a little secret. I really like it when people say nice things about me. That’s one of the reasons I’ve enjoyed reading all the various RESP Book reviews, because they have all been pretty positive. But this RESP Book review by Krystal Yee, who writes at Gimme Back My [...]
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I’m proud to be hosting only the third ever Canadian real estate blog carnival. This carnival was started by Rachelle from Landlord Rescue and contains posts relating to real estate. Investing Thesis presents a guide to investing in REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) with Dennis Mitchell of the Sentry REIT fund. Some interesting reasons for [...]
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My whole family was sick this week, which is why I didn’t do my normal Wednesday post. Next week, however will be jam-packed with great posts! On with the links Canadian Couch Potato wrote a good piece about risk in RESPs. He includes a few quotes from your’s truly. Bob Aaron wrote about a house [...]
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Last week, I had the pleasure of chatting on the phone with Rob Carrick – who most of you know as Canada’s premier personal finance journalist with the Globe & Mail. This Globe & Mail article was the result: The mysterious world of RESPs revealed. It lists seven of the trickiest rules of RESPs. Reviews [...]
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I had a ton of mentions in the media this week, which was a lot of fun. Hopefully that will continue! MoneySense interview I wrote a while back about doing an interview with Dan Bortolotti of Canadian Couch Potato for an RESP article in MoneySense. The article is online – it’s about couch potato investing [...]
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I decided to push back my regular Wednesday post to Thursday, because I was too excited about the big media mentions today. Not to mention two more RESP book reviews! Thanks a lot to the journalists and bloggers who made all this happen today. Toronto Star – Ellen Roseman Ellen Roseman wrote a piece today [...]
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Lots of mentions and reviews today for The RESP Book. I have to say that I’m really happy with the coverage and praise that the book is getting. Thanks so much to everyone who is writing or telling people about the book. The Globe & Mail Chaya Cooperberg of the Globe & Mail wrote a [...]
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Happy Halloween in advance! In case you missed it, the Globe and Mail published the first chapter of my book. Have I mentioned that I wrote a book? I also unveiled the monster Canadian discount brokerage comparison earlier this week. I swear I could have written another book in the time it took me to [...]
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