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Posted 3 days ago
The Sleepy Portfolio continued to tread water in the second quarter of 2008 losing 1.08% through the quarter. The only winner was Canadian equities with XIC posting an 8% gain from the first quarter.
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Posted 5 days ago
Vanguard recently introduced a ETF to capture exposure to the world s major equity markets weighted by their market capitalization. The ETF, which started trading last week on the NYSE Arca exchange
Posted 6 days ago
The Personal Finance Network is a group of six blogs - three Canadian, two American and one ex-pat Canadian - formed as a forum to exchange ideas. The other members of the group are:Blunt Money lives
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Posted 1 week ago
Peter Bernstein writes in the New York Times that our assumptions about the future may be wrong and risk management should be a process of dealing with the consequences of being wrong.Jon Chevreau rep
Posted 1 week ago
According to the CRA, you can deposit Canada Child Tax Benefit or Universal Child Care Benefit payments into a bank account or trust account in your child s name and have the interest payments treat
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Posted 1 week ago
Norm Rothery (also featured in this video interview with Jon Chevreau) recently wrote that the ultra-low commissions offered by the discount brokers allow investors with large portfolios to buy the st
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Posted 1 week ago
I thought I d share one of the less appreciated benefits of passive investing after reading Million Dollar Journey s post on working hard for our money instead of doing the things we value more. L
Posted 1 week ago
Everyone loves lists - there s the list of 100 greatest movies, 100 best novels, 1000 places to see and even a website devoted to the lists of bests. Lists are very subjective which is why they are
Posted 2 weeks ago
It seems that few people have any clue on what St phane Dion s green shift will end up costing the average Canadian family. The National Post s Political Editor sums up this opinion, writin
Posted 2 weeks ago
The Federal Liberals unveiled their Green Shift Plan today:We will cut taxes on those things we all want more of such as income, investment and innovation. And we will shift those taxes to what we all
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