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Weekend Reading – Dead simple investing, selling Berkshire, household expenses, and #money stuff

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Mark | 12 Comments

Weekend Reading Welcome to my latest Weekend Reading edition. I hope you’ve had a good week. As I write this post, we’re bracing for yet another winter storm in Ottawa. I suppose it could be worse – our friends down…

How to protect yourself online – fraud prevention for any day or month

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Mark | 15 Comments

How to protect yourself online This year marks another year for the annual education and awareness campaign that is Fraud Prevention Month. Kudos to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre for this annual campaign. #FPM2017 Really though, in my opinion, every day…

Can you have too much money in your RRSP?

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Mark | 68 Comments

Can you have too much money in your RRSP? Earlier this year the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) celebrated yet another birthday. This means for decades Canadians have had a great opportunity to defer taxes and growth their retirement nest egg…

Weekend Reading – Saving yourself, retirement, SRI, John Bogle and #money stuff

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Mark | 4 Comments

Weekend Reading Welcome to my latest Weekend Reading edition where I share some of my favourite articles from the week that was. It was a busy week friends – happy to have some downtime this weekend. My NCAA bracket is…

What is Sustainable Investing and how can you learn more?

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Mark | 6 Comments

This post has been brought to you in partnership with Scotia iTRADE. All thoughts and opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Scotia iTRADE. We’ve heard it all before. Save early. Save often. Keep saving…

Sean Cooper encourages you to Burn Your Mortgage

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Mark | 23 Comments

Burn Your Mortgage Most of us aspire to own our home. In doing so, we need to burn our mortgage at some point – hopefully before retirement. Some Canadians yearn for a bit more – they want to kill all…

Stop punishing people who save and invest their money

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Mark | 38 Comments

Dear Government, With the upcoming federal budget, based on what I’m reading and hearing, it includes significant changes regarding the taxation of capital gains. It’s going up. I urge you to re-consider. TFSAs 101 As you know, the Tax Free…

Weekend Reading – Trapped in $1.6 million homes, pressure from banks, RRSP withdrawals and more

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Mark | 7 Comments

Welcome to another Weekend Reading edition, where you’ll find some of my favourite reads from the personal finance blogosphere. Earlier this week, I posted these articles: What makes a great Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)? I asked what’s next for TD…

2017 Financial Goals – March Update

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Mark | 15 Comments

In my previous update, outlining our 2017 financial goals, I told you my wife and I decided a long time ago we needed some financial goals defined so we have a hope of realizing them. Nothing has changed… Our money…

What’s next for TD Bank?

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Mark | 33 Comments

Unless you’ve been living under a financial news rock recently, longtime TD Bank employees have gone public – citing “incredible pressure” to squeeze bank profits from customers. Yet this is nothing new in the financial sector. The banking sector mandate…