Canadian Capitalist

I am hosting the Carnival of Investing next week and I am starting to panic because so far, I haven’t received any submissions. Bloggers, please send in your favourite posts on investing topics to ccapitalist-at-yahoo-dot-ca. I promise to read each of your submissions and include all the posts in the carnival (Can you sense my [...]

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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will present the new Tory government’s first budget on May 2, 2006. Here’s what we can almost certainly expect (from a personal finance perspective):

A 1% cut to the GST will be one of the key features of the budget. The key unknown here is when the cut would take effect.
Prime Minister [...]

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I am adding The Confused Capitalist to the Canadian Financial Blogs page. The blogger, Jay Walker, writes mostly about investment topics and has a contrarian take on the markets. Recent posts covered subjects like prospecting for stocks, the (falling) US dollar and (the lack of) a housing bubble in Canada. Mr. Walker has been blogging [...]

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The Confused Capitalist left the following comment in response to an earlier post on blue chip bargains:
I agree with your overall thesis; however, you, like I, have the currency issues to consider. i.e. the possibility of continuing deterioration of the US dollar. Not an issue to be taken lightly, in my view, as I think [...]

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The Investment Reporter, a Canadian newsletter with a tremendous long-term record, has a buy rating on Tim Hortons (TSX: THI, NYSE: THI) in its April 7, 2006 issue.
We believe it’s worth paying up to $34 a share for Tim, Canada’s largest chain of quick service restaurants, either in the market or through Wendy’s International.
The newsletter [...]

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I am currently reading David Swensen’s (of the Yale Portfolio fame) Unconventional Success and was very surprised to learn that he considers the Russell 2000 (a US small-cap equity index) a poorly constructed index as it suffers from very high turnover. For example, in the three years ending December 31, 2003, the index posted an [...]

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I finally managed to file our tax returns and since we used Netfile, we can expect our refund within the next two weeks. It is always nice to have a lot of money in the bank account and wonder what to do with it. This year, that decision is pretty easy for us: we are [...]

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I finally got around to organizing and annotating my collection of links to other Canadian websites. While it is still a work in progress, it is available here and also through the Resources section on the main page.

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Canadian Banks are the mainstays in many a portfolio for very good reasons: they have profitable franchises, pay a solid dividend that typically increases every year and have high returns on equity. As a recent cover story in the Report on Business points out, the recent performance of the banks is nothing short of spectacular: [...]

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Welcome to the 31st edition of the Carnival of Debt Reduction, dedicated to posts that inspire or help us to get rid of debt.
Without further ado, here are the highlights:
If I Had a Nickel… Blogging Away Debt says that if she had a nickel for every time she has goofed up on her road [...]

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