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Saving on Taxes and Growing Your Wealth with the Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA)

By Kevin

What is a TFSA? If you live in Canada and you have not started to contribute toward your TFSA, you should start thinking about doing so! What is a TFSA? A TFSA (Tax Free Savings Account) is a special type of investment account that allows your savings to grow tax-free. It is similar to the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Growing Your Wealth, Investing Tagged With: Canada, finance, planning, retirement, Roth 401k, savings, tax-free, taxes, TFSA, wealth

Save More Money with Indexed Funds

By Kevin

Chart of the performance of index funds management expense ratio (MER) versus active funds management expense ratio (MER).

In my short investment journey, I have read books, articles, and blog posts about the merits of index funds. “Invest in index funds”, they say, “and stop wasting your money on management fees!” Are the authors really telling the truth? Passive investing The idea behind an index fund is simple enough: all it does is… [Read More]

Filed Under: Avoiding Scams, Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Saving Your Money Tagged With: active investing, Canada, compound growth, index funds, management expense ratio, marketing scams, mutual funds, passive investing, stocks

Interested in where interest rates are going?

By Kevin

Not too long ago, the Bank of Canada raised the benchmark overnight rate by 0.25%. The ongoing sentiment at that time was that the Canadian economy was starting to heat up, and interest rates were about to start their long upward climb. People rushed to get into 5-year fixed mortgages, notwithstanding the fact that even… [Read More]

Filed Under: Market Analysis Tagged With: Canada, fixed rates, interest rates, mortgages, variable rates

Another Hot Week Passes by…

By Kevin

Here is your weekend reading:

Filed Under: Weekend Reading Tagged With: alternative housing, beating the index, BillShrink, Canada, collection agencies, college debt, credit score, debt, FairTax, home ownership, income trusts, index funds, Internet, lifestyle, planning, private schooling, Sex and the City, student loans, Sun Life, sustainability, used cars, Yakezie

Canadian Dollar and US Dollar at Parity, Once Again

By Kevin

The Canadian Dollar and the US Dollar are at par, once again! The last time this happened was back in September 2007, and the time before that was in November 1976. Great… I’m Canadian! So now what can I do? Well, if you don’t live far from the U.S. border, now might be a good… [Read More]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Opinion, Saving Your Money Tagged With: Canada, currency, currency depreciation, foreign exchange, parity

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