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April 13th, 2007 · 9 Comments

  1. Jon Chevreau writes in his Wealthy Boomer blog about the new Claymore S&P CDN Preferred Share ETF.
  2. It was bound to happen: a lazy portfolio built using the new-fangled fundamental index ETFs.
  3. Rob Carrick compares the 10-year dividend growth rate with the 10-year share price increase in The Globe and Mail and concludes that dividends are almost a sure thing when it comes to investing.
  4. The Toronto Star’s Ellen Roseman recommends two investment books to read.
  5. Melanie McLister of Canadian Mortgage Trends points to an article that provides an overview of mortgage brokers.
  6. It’s a never-ending debate: invest in your RRSP or pay down the mortgage. Here are two recent posts on the subject from Million Dollar Journey and Canadian Dream.
  7. Thanks to Mike for recommending The Four Pillars of Investment Wisdom, a fascinating book by William Bernstein (of the Efficient Frontier website). I’ve only read the first twenty pages but am already planning on buying the book.
  8. If you are still procrastinating on your taxes, here’s a list of NETFILE certified tax preparation software packages. You can still get a $10 discount for downloading QuickTax.

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  • 1 Malkiel, Bogle Argue Against Non-Market Capitalization Weighted ETFs at Investing Intelligently // Apr 13, 2007 at 1:56 am

    [...] found this little nugget from June 2006 from a link I saw (not a very interesting read) on Canadian Capitalist’s blog. It’s an article called “Turn on a Paradigm?” (very interesting read) and it was [...]

  • 2 Luc // Apr 13, 2007 at 3:28 am

    The link to QUickTax shows an empty cart.

  • 3 Mike // Apr 13, 2007 at 6:57 am

    I just finished the ‘Four Pillars’ a couple of days ago and also plan to buy it.

    The author maintains a website http://www.efficientfrontier.com/ef/index.shtml which contains occasional finance articles.

  • 4 Canadian Dream // Apr 13, 2007 at 9:50 am

    CC,

    Thanks for the link. It really is a debate that just will not die.

    I suppose that is a good thing to try and generate a new idea once in a while on it.

    CD

  • 5 Canadian Capitalist // Apr 13, 2007 at 10:08 am

    Luc: I regret the error. Here it is:

    Link

  • 6 Mike // Apr 13, 2007 at 3:59 pm

    CC I saw your comments in Chevreau’s blog - pretty good stuff.

  • 7 Aleks // Apr 13, 2007 at 7:16 pm

    We made the switch from Quicktax to UFile this year. There’s really nothing in Quicktax that justifies paying more than $20.

  • 8 Dan // Apr 13, 2007 at 10:02 pm

    I have used Quicktax and Taxwiz in the past. This year I used StudioTax. It works great, and it is free. It did everything I needed, including Netfile. All they ask for is a donation. The link is included.

    Cheers

    http://www.studiotax.com/en/main.htm

  • 9 Phil S // Apr 15, 2007 at 9:52 am

    I just took a look at the Claymore ETFs and most of them are so new that they haven’t even published their first quarterly report yet! You only have the prospectus to go on. I like the concept behind a few of them, but I’m not willing to put my cash into them until I see what their quarterly report with cash flow statements looks like and a complete list of their holdings…

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