I hope everyone had fun on Halloween. (I’ll probably be living with a sugar hangover for the next couple of days.) There were too many great articles this month for me to include even a fraction of them here, so I tried to choose a selection that included some new sites that you might not…
Tag Archive: retirement planning
Stock Allocation: All or None?
Just remember, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~ M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Wealth #9 posted at Personal Dividends and in The Carnival of Financial…
Variable Returns Can Work Against You in Retirement
The following is a guest post by Jim Yih, a fee-only advisor, best-selling author, financial expert, and syndicated columnist. Currently, Jim specializes in putting financial education programs into the workplace. For more information you can visit his websites at Retire Happy or Wealth Web Gurus. Variable Returns Create Timing Risk One of the problems of…
Have You Lost Faith in the Market?
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Our financial system operates on trust. When you put your money into a bank, you trust that it will be there when you want to take it out. When you put money in the stock market, you expect ups…
Love & Money: Retiring Together
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~ Author Unknown We conclude our Love & Money series today with a look at retirement goals. The Financial…
TFSA vs. RRSP Duel: Who Wins?
The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. ~ Author Unknown At this time of year, many Canadians are trying to figure out where to put their savings in order to reap the greatest tax and long term investment advantage. With the introduction of TFSAs, that decision has been complicated…
Book Review: Enough Bull
People on commission cannot be trusted. ~ David Trahair, Enough Bull, p. 121 This book came out in August of 2009. By that time, the market tailspin had finally subsided and many investors have since felt comfortable diving back into the investment pool. David Trahair would probably advise against that. This book was billed as…
