H&R Block At Home 2011 Tax Software Giveaway

If you use H&R Block At Home to file your taxes, this giveaway is for you. Thanks to H&R Block, I’m giving away five (5) coupons that are good for downloading one copy each of H&R Block At Home desktop software (valued at $29.99 plus tax). Please note that the downloaded software will only work on PCs. A Mac version of the software is not available.

Entering the giveaway is real simple. Just leave a comment in this post and don’t forget to include a valid e-mail address. If you are reading this through your favourite RSS Reader or via-email, you have to click on the headline, get through to the website and scroll down to the bottom of the page and type in your comment.

Some quick rules:
(1) No purchase necessary. A skill-testing question may be required.
(2) Deadline for entries is 8 p.m. EST on Thursday, February 16, 2012.
(3) One entry per person please.
(4) I treat your privacy very seriously. Your email will be used for the sole purpose of contacting you if you happen to win.
(5) I’ll pick five (5) entries at random and announce the winner after the deadline. Thank you for entering and good luck!

PS: My weekly links post will be published over the weekend.

PPS: The winners in the TurboTax giveaway are Henria O., Chris and Andrew F. Thank you to everyone who entered.

Investing in Magazine Stock Picks is a Bad Idea

While getting rid of old magazines recently, I ran into a Fortune magazine story from the turn of the century. Titled, 10 Stocks To Last The Decade, the column claimed that investors should bet on four “sweeping” trends that are sure to make money over the next decade: communications networking, entertainment, financial services and biotech. [...]

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Do Penny Mining Stocks count as Investments?

In a recent column in The Globe and Mail, Rob Carrick wrote about a financial adviser who says he is investing based on a new fangled strategy called “the risk barbell”. A barbell is an asset allocation strategy that provides exposure to asset classes at the two extreme ends of the risk spectrum. The adviser [...]

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This and That: Pension Return Assumptions & TurboTax Giveaway

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Under 40? Forget Retirement Planning

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech in Davos last week set off a mini firestorm when he briefly touched upon the need to make social programs sustainable as the population ages rapidly: We have already taken steps to limit the growth of our health care spending over that period. We must do the same for our [...]

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iShares + Claymore is not good for Clients

Recently, BlackRock which offers 48 ETFs in Canada under the iShares label announced that it will be acquiring Claymore Canada, a vendor of 34 exchange-traded funds. The press release accompanying the announcement said that the transaction enhances BlackRock’s ability to “deliver excellence in innovation, quality and choice”. According to the Canadian ETF Association, iShares is [...]

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