This page contains a list of interesting Canadian financial blogs, along with links and a short description of each blog.
Art of Money, written by a self-described Rich Dad loving geek, documents the exploration and understanding of the principles and teachings of author Robert Kiyosaki. The author presents the lessons he learnt from his past businesses, real estate ventures and stock market investments in a very insightful and informative manner and has a flair for creative writing. (RSS Feed)
A Canadian and Her Money is written by Money Diva, a 32-year old consultant who has amassed a significant nest egg for someone her age. She updates us on her net worth, discusses what she does to grow it, her long-term plans etc. (Feed)
Canadian Banks & Insurance covers analyst reports, articles, company and industry information on the Canadian financial sector. An example of a recent post was excerpts from Merrill Lynch report on the banks. (RSS Feed)
Canadian Dream: Free at 45 is a blog written by a twenty-something Chemical Engineer from Saskatchewan who has a twist on Freedom 55: retiring by the time he turns 45. He plans to keep us posted on his progress and he is off to a great start already. (RSS Feed)
Canadian Financial DIY is written by an expatriate Canadian living in Scotland who has been managing his own investments for about ten years. The blog is fairly new and features investment topics and book reviews. (RSS Feed)
Canadian Financial Stuff writes interesting essays and offers his unique and sometimes quirky point of view and opinion on personal financial matters. (RSS Feed)
A blogger from Ottawa writes the Canadian Money Blogs Reviewer, featuring links and short informal posts on a variety of personal finance topics. (RSS Feed)
Canadian Money Advisor wants to address “a shortage of good quality information and advice on the internet about the Canadian financial industry” and provide Canadians help with their financial planning. (RSS Feed)
Canadian Mortgage Trends, a blog by a professional mortgage planner, is the place to get information on “new types of mortgages, trends in Canadian real estate values, news on mortgage brokers, and where to find the best interest rates”. (RSS Feed)
The Confused Capitalist: 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 since February 2006, and posts at least a few times every week. (RSS Feed)
Crunch Money promises to help to “get a better understanding about some of the financial products you might be hearing about from your broker, advisor, brother, sister, father, or the media”. The blogger has covered topics like Principal-Protected Notes, Segregated Funds and socially responsible investing. Posts are detailed and well written. (RSS Feed)
Debt Be Gone: A couple in their late twenties, who are deep in debt, are on a mission to eliminate their consumer debt, increase their income and save for a home and retirement. They detail their progress in their blog. They are making great progress having paid down $10K in about six months. (RSS Feed)
The Dividend Guy Blog chronicles an Alberta-based consultant’s journey to financial freedom through dividend investing. He aims to build a $300,000 portfolio by the time he is 40 years old and writes extensively about dividend-paying securities and publicly tracks his well-diversified portfolio. (RSS Feed)
Ellen Roseman needs no introduction. She writes a popular personal finance column for the Toronto Star and is the author of six books. She has recently started blogging and like her columns, her blog posts cover consumer affairs and personal finance topics. (RSS Feed)
Financial Jungle is written by a thirty-something Vancouver resident with a keen interest in dividend investing. Recent posts covered topics such as closet index funds, Vancouver Real Estate, Retiring in exotic locations like Thailand etc. (RSS Feed).
Financial Security Quest is a recently launched blog with the tag line “Money, Real Estate, Passive Income and Early Retirement”. Recent posts discussed dividend-growth strategies, investing in rental properties etc. (RSS Feed)
Mike has often left long and perceptive comments on various posts and inspired by William Bernstein’s book, has started his blog at Four Pillars. Though the blog has just gone live, I am confident that we can look forward to interesting posts. (RSS Feed).
The Frugal Canadian is a 29-year old accountant based in Toronto who writes about her personal experience with saving and investing. She is aiming to save $25,000 a year (or, 48% of her income!) for a down payment on a house and tracks her progress through the blog. Posts are sporadic, though they have been more frequent lately. (RSS Feed)
Getting Rich Together is written by a twenty-something blogger who writes about student loans, mortgages etc. targeted towards young people just starting out in life. (RSS Feed)
Investing Intelligently is a new blog by a Vancouver-based fellow Engineer and Software Developer. He writes about value investing and index funds and is a disciple of the Benjamin Graham school of investing. Posts are roughly once daily. (RSS Feed)
Larry MacDonald, author of books on Nortel (TSX: NT) and Bombardier (TSX: BBD.SV.B) and columnist for Investor’s Digest and Canadian Business Online, writes the Investment Ideas blog for Canadian Business magazine. The blog has been in existence since January 2006 and Mr. MacDonald posts frequently “to share facts and ideas that are by turns enlightening, entertaining and, yes, profitable”. The RSS feed can be obtained here.
Investment Jungle promises “to empower individual investors to gain the knowledge, skill and confidence required to invest in high quality stocks”. The blog features analysis of individual stocks using rules found in Phil Towne’s Rule # 1 book. (RSS Feed)
Investoid is written by a 25-year old former tech entrepreneur from Alberta. The blog mostly deals with investment topics and individual stocks are sometimes discussed. (RSS Feed)
The Investor Class is a blog written by Jean-François Leclerc, an economics and finance student from Montreal. Though the blog has been in existence for only two months, Jean-François writes detailed and insightful posts on investing and finance (for instance, check out his detailed analysis of the performance of actively managed funds). Posts are roughly once or twice a week.
While not strictly a financial blog, the McGill Management Blog provides a forum to discuss business topics. (RSS Feed)
Middle Class Millionaire is written by a 27-year old, who wants to retire by the time he is forty. He is off to a great start by assembling a $100,000 portfolio of stocks, mutual funds, bonds and cash and discusses his stock ideas on his blog. (RSS Feed)
The brand new blog Million Dollar Journey is written by a 27-year old who wants to accumulate a net worth of $1 million by the time he is 35. He is off to a good start and reports a net worth of $200K, which would place him between the 50th and 70th percentile for all age groups. (RSS Feed)
To One Million and Beyond is written by Matt who is 29 years old and deep in debt and yet wants to have a million dollars (surprise!) in liquid assets by the time he is 35. It’s a bit hard to tell this is a Canadian blog but Matt writes thoughtful posts on how he deals with his debt. (RSS Feed)
In Re: money, a 27 year-old Torontonian promises to discuss issues specific to Canadian small business, self-employment and taxes and investing, though I can’t say I am a fan of buying penny stocks. (RSS Feed)
Actuary Promod Sharma writes the Riscario Insider Blog. He explains that “riscario” is a combination of risk, care and scenarios and writes to “help Canadians learn about financial risks and how to reduce them”. (RSS Feed)
Almost all personal finance blogs are written by average Joes or journalists, so it is refreshing to read a blog like SteadyHand, written by someone with a lot of first-hand experience within the asset management business. The author, Tom Bradley, was recently President and CEO of the well-regarded mutual fund firm Phillips, Hager & North and is working on launching his own mutual fund. The blog features “observations on investing, the mutual fund industry, and other stuff”. (RSS Feed)
StingyFinance “provides free daily educational articles relating to personal finance, real estate and investing”. (RSS Feed)
The Wealthy Boomer, is a blog written by Jonathan Chevreau, personal finance columnist for The National Post. Posts are fairly lengthy and cover all topics related to money. (RSS Feed)
Inactive Blogs:
DIY Finances: The author, a federal government employee living in Ottawa, writes about his personal journey to financial independence. He plans to learn, share and discuss real estate investments and hopes to own an income-producing property in the future. Posts are roughly once every day and covers varied topics like indexing, book reviews, course reviews and how-to articles.
The Earning Curve is a blog by a Mechanical Engineer who shares the experience, knowledge, and challenges of a beginning Canadian investor. His goal is to become educated and effective at maintaining healthy personal finance habits, with a focus on eventual wealth building. The goal of his blog is to offer up his investing ideas, issues, and his portfolio, and allow the reader to learn, evaluate and hopefully discuss his process.
A Frugal Focus: An Ontario-based blogger records his personal finance decisions, rants and occasional insights in achieving his financial goals. The author has very specific goals: accumulating a capital of $197,870.62 in his retirement accounts and $308,446.64 in a taxable account invested in dividend-paying equities by 2020. The blog provides useful tips on saving money and also points out the total annual savings generated by each tip.
45 responses so far ↓
1 Shazad Mardhani // Nov 17, 2005 at 11:51 am
Why all the focus on the stock market?
2 Canadian Capitalist // Nov 17, 2005 at 12:38 pm
Shazad: Interesting question, but why not?
3 Dave // Nov 23, 2005 at 12:24 pm
Hey, can you update the link to my site? I have a new domain at http://www.investingintelligently.com, woohoo! Thanks for inspiring me to switch to Wordpress as well, it’s awesome.
4 Shazad Mardhani // Dec 16, 2005 at 8:22 am
Canadian Capitalist: Because there are so many other forms of investment, why focus only on the one yielding the least amount of direct control on the dealings of the actual investment?
5 Canadian Capitalist » DIY Finances // Feb 27, 2006 at 8:34 pm
[...] I am adding DIY Finances to the Canadian Financial Blogs page. The author, a federal government employee living in Ottawa, writes about his personal journey to financial independence. He plans to learn, share and discuss real estate investments and hopes to own an income-producing property in the future. Posts are roughly once every day and covers varied topics like indexing, book reviews, course reviews and how-to articles. [...]
6 larry macdonald // May 6, 2006 at 5:54 am
Canadian Capitalist: Thanks for including me in your list! Some of the info has changed tho. I now write a column for Canadian Business Online and have a RRS feed for the blog. Here is an updated version of your listing:
Larry MacDonald, author of books on Nortel (TSX: NT) and Bombardier (TSX: BBD.SV.B) and columnist for Investor’s Digest and Canadian Business Online, writes the Investment Ideas blog for Canadian Business magazine. The blog has been in existence since January 2006 and Mr. MacDonald posts frequently “to share facts and ideas that are by turns enlightening, entertaining and, yes, profitable”.
7 Canadian Capitalist // May 6, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Hi Larry: I have update the information. Its great that a RSS feed is now available. I am adding your blog to my Bloglines reader.
8 Charles P. Whaley // Jun 6, 2006 at 10:29 am
For what it’s worth, I’ve re-launched TSX TrendWatch after a one-year hiatus. I use a quasi-proprietary approach called relative trend analysis to track the stocks and sub-indexes of the S&P/TSX Composite Index.
To go directly there, use… http://TSX.ProfiTrend.com
When I get around to adding a Links page, I’ll be sure to include your blog/site.
9 Darin Diehl // Jun 20, 2006 at 8:30 am
We recently launched a user generated blog center at http://www.StockHouse.ca. A few weeks in and we have more than 100 blogs started up by the citizen journalists who make up the more than 800,000 unique visitors a month StockHouse attracts. The focus is stocks, stocks, stocks. Anyone can blog there - including Canadian Capitalist - even if only to promote your own Web site. Come one, come all.
10 Monty Loree // Dec 9, 2006 at 4:25 am
As a good quality Canadian Finacial blog, I’ve linked to you on my blogroll. Care to exchange links? Much appreciated.
11 MillionDollarJourney.com // Dec 27, 2006 at 10:25 pm
What are the requirements before getting added to this list?
FT
http://www.MillionDollarJourney.com
12 Canadian Capitalist // Dec 28, 2006 at 12:09 am
FT: I usually add all the blogs that I mention in my posts. Its just that I’ve been a bit busy with other things lately and haven’t gotten around to adding to this list. I’ll make an update shortly.
13 Middle Class Millionaire // Jan 31, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Great job on the site. You’ve inspired me to start my own. If you have time please check it out.
http://middleclassmillionaire.blogspot.com
P.S - I’ve linked to your site and if you like what you read at mine a link to mine would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Middle Class Millionaire
http://middleclassmillionaire.blogspot.com
14 Mark Huber // Apr 4, 2007 at 8:39 pm
I am delighted to see the quality financial information that is being posted on Canadian blogs in recent years - it’s about time!
Cheers!
Mark Huber, CFP
Author of *The UnCanadian Way* http://howtobesetforlife.com/TheUnCanadianWay/
http://howtogetridofyourmortgage.com/theuncanadianway/
15 Big Cajun Man // Apr 26, 2007 at 9:08 am
Thanks for the mention, good on you for “paying it forward” and exposing us to the new Blog Sites too!
Thanks –C8j
16 Financial Jungle // Apr 27, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Hi CC,
I’ve been holding this request until today, because I wanted to publish some contents for you to evaluate. If you think my blog is worthy of a mention, I’d appreciate if you can write a short blurb about it. Thanks very much for your consideration.
Financial Jungle Guy
http://www.FinancialJungle.com.
17 FinancialJungle.com // May 28, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I see Financial Jungle on your blogroll. Thanks for your vote.
Financial Jungle Guy
http://www.FinancialJungle.com
18 Canadian-Business.info // Aug 11, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Hey I recently started a blog on Canadian business, economy, and market news/opinion.
http://www.canadian-business.info
19 Canadian-Business.info // Aug 11, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Canadian Capitalist, I’ve linked to this page on my site.
Would be greatly appreciated to get linked from the list.
Thanks.
20 Canadian-Business.info // Aug 11, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Actually I didn’t realize you had a whole blog, lol (Quite interesting too). I could link to that as well, whatever you want. Let me know.
21 WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com // Aug 11, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Hi there, I’ve recently started posting to a blog that covers many different aspects of money, including investing. I have to admit that I am new to using the internet and all the etiquette involved - I find it quite overwhelming. I have read that it is good for traffic when you are linked from other sites, especially if the sites are high quality sites like your own.
If you have the time, and are so inclined, I would love to hear your thoughts on the site (content, navigation, or whatever else you deem important) so that I may improve the user experience.
If anyone else is reading this comment, please do feel free to offer all criticisms to me at my site: http://www.wheredoesallmymoneygo.com
Additionally, if you would like me to link to your site, please say so and I will add the link.
I have benefited from visiting your site - so thank you for your efforts…
22 GI // Aug 23, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I’ve just started a new Canadian investing/personal finance blog at guerilla-investor.com. It’s heavily oriented towards technical analysis and timing the markets. I would therefore call it somewhat unorthodox. Would like to exchange links with yourself and all other PF bloggers out there!
23 Patricia // Oct 29, 2007 at 7:17 am
Quite interesting information! But why wouldn’t you divide the text into smaller parts - it’s very difficult to read it.
24 Bruce // Dec 18, 2007 at 10:26 am
I did some research on asset allocation. I would welcome other’s comments, and I might post this on other blogs. My tax rates on capital gains is 23.2%, 46.4% on income and foreign dividends, and 24.6% on Canadian dividends.
I found a website showing 20 year returns up to Dec
31/2004 for porfolios of varying proportions of Canada/foreign equities (
http://www.mutualfundreporter.com/foreign/). The results from that website
suggest that 40% foreign/60% Canadian gives the optimal mix of performance
and volatility. There is another website showing 25 year returns up to Dec 31/2000 for similar portfolios (http://mutualfunds.yahoo.ca/funds/invest.html). I got this website from Dan Solin’s book. The results from this website suggest the optimal mix is 80% foreign/20% Canadian. However, one can get ETFs that are currency hedged.
With currency hedging, the ratio of foreign/Canadian equities is less important. Once again though,
Canadian dividends are taxed less than foreign equities. I don’t have data
for the Canadian stock exchange. However, I do have data for the S and P
500 for 20 years ending in 2005. 38% of the return came from reinvested
dividends ( http://www.troweprice.com/common/index3/0,,pgid=7217,00.html).
If the same holds true for Canada, the 46.4% tax that I pay on foreign
dividends becomes a factor in asset allocation. Overall, I find asset
allocation complicated.
About how much should be invested in bonds, I did some research. From
the globefund site, the 20 year return of the Canadian stock market and
Canadian bond market are 10.50% and 8.96% respectively. From the Bank of
Canada web site, the Canadian inflation rate for 1987-2007 was 2.42%. I
don’t have tax data for the 20 year period. For the following calculations,
I assume that tax rates were the same over the 20 year period as they are
now (very likely an incorrect assumption). I also assume a tax rate of
24.6% on both capital gains and Canadian dividends. As mentioned
previously, I don’t have data on the relative contribution of dividends and
capital gains to the Canadian stock market during this time period. Inside an
RRSP, the return on stocks and bonds was 8.08% and 6.54% respectively.
Outside an RRSP, the return on stocks and bonds was 5.50% and 2.38%
respectively. There are bond funds with MERs of 2.38% or greater.
25 Canadian Capitalist // Dec 18, 2007 at 10:49 am
Bruce: I’d caution against deriving optimal asset allocations based on past returns. For me asset allocation decisions are driven by 1) How much risk to take? and 2) How much in Canadian equities?
The first question depends on your capacity and willingness to take risk and dictates how much to have in bonds and cash.
The second is more philosophical. Yes, you get the dividend tax credit for Canadian equities but foreign markets offer better diversification opportunities and better returns. The allocation to foreign equities can then simply be split according to the respective weight in market capitalization. You can find many posts on this topic in the archives section.
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27 Tarik. Blog // Jan 5, 2008 at 5:33 am
I’m a Queens University Business Student who recently started a blog on Canadian business, markets and analysis.
Visit it at: http://www.tarik.ca
“a paradigm shift, in the analysis of the Canadian financial markets”
28 DeanP // Feb 12, 2008 at 11:49 am
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29 DeanP // Feb 12, 2008 at 11:50 am
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30 tracy ho // Feb 22, 2008 at 2:57 am
Thanks for the information ,
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31 Roo St. Jacques // Mar 4, 2008 at 2:20 am
Hey. Love your blog.
Maybe you’ll like ours.
Its fun and witty- and more informative than anything in the business papers.
Thanks.
Roo St. Jacques
32 Roo St. Jacques // Apr 11, 2008 at 10:57 am
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33 DebtFree // May 12, 2008 at 11:54 pm
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34 Marc Ryan // May 26, 2008 at 7:14 am
Hi
Very much enjoy your site. Keep at it. You may wish to consider adding my own site to your list.
I launched the site as a retirement project in March 2008. A lawyer by training, I worked 3 years for a securities regulator and 26 years for two major blue-chip issuers. The site is Canadian, bilingual (companion site http://www.investisseurautonome.info) and unaffiliated with any banks or other financial intermediaries. It is focused on providing independent, objective information to the do-it-yourself investor.
35 Marc Ryan // May 26, 2008 at 7:18 am
You may wish to consider adding my site to your list: http://www.independentinvestor.info.
I launched the site in March 2008. A lawyer by training, I worked 3 years for a securities regulator and 26 years for two major blue-chip issuers. My site is Canadian, bilingual (companion site http://www.investisseurautonome.info) and unaffiliated with any banks or other financial intermediaries. It is focused on providing independent, objective information to the do-it-yourself investor.
36 Dave Smith // May 29, 2008 at 1:07 am
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37 Lemuel // May 29, 2008 at 2:38 am
Most of the financial blogs listed here are great. Thanks for sharing a lot of information here. Very informative blogs.
Debt Free Christian
38 John // Jun 30, 2008 at 7:29 am
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39 Darin // Jul 20, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Great Site! Tons of quality links for investors!
40 Stan // Jul 24, 2008 at 4:41 pm
41 Greta B // Aug 6, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Here is a great financial blog.
http://myonlinetrader.blogspot.com/
42 finance // Aug 20, 2008 at 4:05 am
This blog is nice.We get more informative.
43 Paola // Sep 27, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Interesting blog…and collection of comments.
Do you do reciprocal links? Check us out at http://www.canadianfinancialfreedom.com
44 sred // Oct 9, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Here is one of my favourite business blogs:
http://www.northbridgeconsultants.com/blog
45 Capital Stories // Oct 20, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Hi CC,
I have enjoyed reading your blog.
Recently our team created a financial blog where Patrick Mullins, CFA will leverage his 20-plus years of experience advising investors to add some clarity to the vast array of financial news and information. We expect to post a couple entries every week. If you like what you read please add us to your list of Canadian financial blogs.
Thanks
Aaron
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