Welcome to the third leg of the Canadian Tour of Personal Finance Blogs. I received a total of fifteen entries, which are listed in the order they were received. Enjoy!

  1. The RIF Meltdown Strategy: The Financial Blogger explains how you can slowly transfer assets from your RRSP into a taxable portfolio without paying too much tax on the withdrawals.
  2. The Disappearing Middle Class in Canada: Canadian Financial Stuff takes a look at StatsCan data and concludes that the gap between the “haves” and “have-nots” is continuing to increase.
  3. Who’s Benefiting From Your Asset Allocation? Financial Jungle warns that your financial adviser may be recommending an asset allocation strategy that may not make sense for your situation.
  4. Investing: How to start (over): Thicken my Wallet shares some lessons on how to start investing based on his experience from fixing his broken portfolio.
  5. Pay Down the Mortgage or Invest? Middle Class Millionaire explains why investing in the market makes more sense for his situation.
  6. DIYers, You never had it so good: Four Pillars lists five reasons why for investment DIYers, things have never been better.
  7. Living Below Your Means (LBYM): Canadian Dream explains the advantages of LBYM with a hypothetical example.
  8. Critical Illness: The Basics: Riscario Insider explains the financial risks of a critical illness and explains the basics of insuring the risk.
  9. BRK.B — My very own index fund: Growth in Value is comfortable with holding one baby Berkshire share. After all, it is run by one of the best investors ever.
  10. Goldcorp’s Q1/07 Review: Commodity News and Mining Stocks reviews the first quarter earnings of one of the lowest cost gold producers.
  11. ETF Screeners, Tools and Primers: Canadian Financial DIY lists useful websites and online resources with comments for investors looking into Canadian and US ETFs.
  12. Ten Ways Personal Finance Blogging has Helped Me: A Canadian and Her Money explores both the obvious and not-so-obvious benefits of personal finance blogging.
  13. Stock Analysis – Bank of Nova Scotia: Investment Jungle analyses BNS and concludes that it is currently selling at a premium.
  14. Advantages Of An Early Age RRSP: A Dawn Journal mentions a few benefits of starting a RRSP at an early age.
  15. Dealing with Losing Your Job! Million Dollar Journey offers some tips to cope with a job loss.
  16. Getting Started With Blue Chip Dividends: Financial Security Quest shares his experience of buying his first blue-chip, high-yield dividend stock.