Weekend Reading: Canadian Financial Summit Edition

Canadian Financial Summit 2018

Last year hundreds of you signed up to watch me and dozens of other personal finance and investing experts speak at the Canadian Financial Summit. Well, we’re back with a fresh new line-up of information designed to make you better savers, investors, and take control of your financial future. Get your free ticket today to…

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Making It Easy For Canadians To Start Investing

RBC InvestEase portfolio mix

This post is sponsored by RBC InvestEase Inc. All views and opinions expressed represent my own and are based on my own research of the subject matter. Young investors want a simple solution to manage their investments at a low cost and with minimal hassle. They want automated advice and professional guidance – but on their own…

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Weekend Reading: Renewed My Mortgage Edition

Renewed My Mortgage

I wrote about my mortgage renewal strategy earlier this year. Since we don’t plan on moving in the next five years, my top consideration is to get the best interest rate possible. That meant looking at the best of either a 5-year close variable rate mortgage or a 1-to-2-year fixed rate mortgage. With my mortgage…

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The Crash That Never Came

The Crash That Never Came

It’s been nearly 10 years since the global financial crisis bottomed out. Since then stocks have basically been on an uninterrupted tear, with the TSX doubling in value, and the S&P 500 nearly quadrupling in value. In that time, investors have survived the European debt crisis, Greece’s debt crisis, a Russian financial crisis, the Brexit…

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Why You Should Avoid Group RESPs

Avoid Group RESPs and Scholarship Trusts

Most parents should know that contributing to an RESP is a great way to save for your child’s education. But there’s one type of plan that gives RESPs a bad name. Group RESPs, or group scholarship trusts, are heavily marketed to new parents and immigrants at doctor’s offices and trade shows. These RESP dealers employ…

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Weekend Reading: August Long Edition

4-Week Vacation in Ireland

My wife and I are spending this August long weekend planning our dream trip to the U.K. next summer. So far we’ve booked flights to Edinburgh, Scotland and found an Airbnb for our two-week stay in Kilkenny, Ireland. We’re trying to fill in the rest of the details, including travelling to Inverness, flying to Dublin,…

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