- The upcoming episode of CBC’s consumer watchdog show Marketplace (Fridays 8:30 p.m. in most of Canada) promises to be interesting. Host Erica Johnson finds out who is really getting rich through “free” Rich Dad real estate seminars. (Hint: It ain’t the seminar attendees).
- If you thinking about opening up a TFSA high-interest savings account, check out the fine print. Rob Carrick points out that many financial institutions are offering “teaser” interest rates that will revert to a much lower rate in the future.
- Mark Hulbert reports in The New Times on a new study that found that an actively-managed fund has to outperform the index by 4.3% annually before expenses just to break even net of expenses.
- Kevin Press of Today ‘s Economy Blog shares observations gleaned from an interview with Gail Vaz-Oxlade.
- You’ll hear gold bugs often going on about the inherent value in the yellow metal. Michael James doesn’t buy that and says just like money, gold only has value because we agree that it has value.
- Million Dollar Journey featured a guest post on six relatively painless way you can cut costs but keep the Latte Factor in your life.
- Thicken My Wallet has a valuable tip: make sure you shred all your personalized junk mail such as credit card offers.
- Preet puts on his thinking cap and debates what happens when you inversely weight the components in a capitalization-weighted index.
- The Intelligent Speculatorreports that new leveraged ETFs in the works plan to use monthly rebalancing to provide better tracking for long(er)-term investors.
- Canadian Financial DIY discovers that post-dated cheques and stopped cheques can cause you considerable grief.
I’m unable to highlight all the articles worth checking out in my weekly round up but you can check them out through my Twitter feed. Hope everyone had a great weekend!
