Canadian Capitalist

[After investing through a broker for more than seven years, Dave from Winnipeg has decided to become a DIY Investor and offered to write about his investing adventures. Here's part one of his saga...]
After months and months of reading investing focused books, sites and blogs I’ve finally gotten to the point where I feel reasonably [...]

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Glenn Cooke is the president of InsureCan, a life insurance brokerage that offers instant online life insurance quotes from about 25 Canadian life insurance companies. Mr. Cooke offered to write an informational and non-promotional article on life insurance in exchange for a link to his site. You can find a selection of life insurance articles [...]

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Subsequent to the publication of The RRSP Book, I asked Preet Banerjee if he would be willing to share with us some details of his next project. He recently mentioned that he is working on a charitable giving handbook. The electronic version of the handbook will be available free for download and all proceeds from [...]

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Mike from Quest for Four Pillars shares his spreadsheet, which shows that it takes a long time for non-match RRSP with low-MER funds to catch up with a group RRSP with an employer match but offers only high-MER funds.
Last week’s post on a survey that indicated how a lot of employees who have the opportunity [...]

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[I've never featured a guest on this blog before, so as an experiment, I asked (okay, pestered) Derek Foster, author of Stop Working: Here's How You Can! to contribute a post. Derek hopes that his post might spark some discussion.]
In 2004, at the age of 34, I retired. I then wrote and self-published STOP [...]

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