Canadian Capitalist

I happened to notice, by accident, that Scotia Bank is offering free seminars featuring The Automatic Millionaire author David Bach. Turns out the one in Ottawa is tonight, but I was able to register even though I thought these seminars would be popular and get filled up pretty quick. I intend to post a review [...]

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Investing in a well-diversified portfolio even with small sums of money.

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I have collected links to interesting Canadian Financial Blogs into a resource page. In addition to existing blogs, there is a new Canadian blog called Investing Intelligently, devoted to the Benjamin Graham school of value investing. There are a few posts so far covering value investing and indexing topics and posts are made roughly daily.

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Significant personal tax cuts are proposed in the 2005 Fiscal Update presented in Parliament today.

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This winter costs to heat our homes are going to soar. MSN Money offers some timely tips to save us a bit of money.
I find that a programmable thermostat, weather stripping, changing air filters regularly and caulking to be the most effective.

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RE/MAX forecasts that home prices across Canada will rise modestly in 2006.

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I’ve always assumed that bankruptcy is something that happens to people with very low income. Turns out my assumptions are totally incorrect.
A story in the National Post paints the portrait of a typical bankrupt: He is 40 years old, earns a decent income of about $50,000 a year, has experienced a major life event [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write about the new options available for ETF investors seeking a higher dividend yield than available with the popular indices. In addition to the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index Fund (DVY), yield-seeking investors have the following options:

PFM (Yields 2.4%): PowerShares Dividend Achievers Portfolio replicates Mergent’s Broad Dividend Achievers™ Index [...]

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Since there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, investing in Canada does involve some risks:

The Canadian market is dominated by the finance and resources sectors. The risks of concentration in these two sectors can be seen from the performance of the Canadian market in October. The brutal correction in the energy sector (down [...]

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You might want to add a bit of Canada to your portfolio…

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