As you may have noticed, things are slow around here on the blog. The main reason is that I’ve been busy on a book project that I’m working on with a few other bloggers. I’m hoping that it is mostly out of the way now and I can go back to my regular posting schedule [...]
The Bloggers for Charity initiative attracted a top bid of $5,000 (Five thousand)! A big thank you to Concentra Financial — the winner of the auction. Quicken Giveaway If you use Quicken money management software to track your finances or you want to give it try, this giveaway is for you. Thanks to Intuit, I’m [...]
[The top bid in the Bloggers for Charity initiative is $400 by Straight Talk Investing's Dr. Dale Rathgeber. The deadline for sending in your bids is tomorrow, so if you want to outbid Dr. Dale, you may want to hurry and contact me directly.] iShares recently introduced a Floating Rate Note ETF (Factsheet, Prospectus) that [...]
In recent columns, Jon Chevreau took Investors Group to task for the sky-high MERs charged by its mutual funds. He rightly questioned why investors have $12.73 billion parked in the Investors Dividend Mutual Fund with a MER of 2.69% when the iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF (TSX: XDV) has pretty much the same holdings [...]
Before we dive into today’s round-up, an update on the Bloggers for Charity initiative. The top bid is currently $400 by Straight Talk Investing’s Dr. Dale Rathgeber. Thank you Dr. Dale! If you’d like to outbid Dr. Dale, please contact me directly. Keeping Steady: The Bank of Canada decided to keep interest rates level this [...]
[A quick update on where the bidding stands in the Bloggers for Charity auction. The top bid now is $400 by Dr. Dale Rathgeber. If you'd like to make a bid, you may want to hurry. Bidding will close on December 16, 2011.] A recent discussion on Canadian Money Forum over the advantages of using [...]
[A quick update on where the bidding stands in the Bloggers for Charity auction. The top bid so far is $288.88 by The Cynical Investor. If you'd like to make a bid, you may want to hurry. Bidding will close on December 16, 2011.] Vanguard’s initial line up of six exchange-traded funds (ETFs) started trading [...]
The big news this week was the co-ordinated move by central banks in the US, Europe, Japan, Canada, England and Switzerland to enhance their capacity to provide liquidity support to the global financial system. If, like me, you are wondering what the heck the Central banks mean by dollar liquidity swaps, here is a very [...]
You won’t know it from the wild swings experienced by the stock markets in the recent past but the Sleepy Mini Portfolio gained 1.65% since my previous update. To be fair, it should be pointed out that the portfolio showed gains for the last quarter only after the significant rally of the past couple of [...]
[Note: The following post was originally published on May 18, 2010. Recently, I noticed that TD Waterhouse now offers a lot more high interest savings accounts than they used to and I have extensively revised and updated the original post with new information. I intend to keep this post current, so feel free to have [...]
