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Don’t Get Fooled: High Pressure Marketing Tactics

By Kevin

Nigerian style 419 scam

“This offer is available TODAY only; you’d better hurry while it lasts!” “Normally I would charge much higher than this, but for you only, I’m making you a special offer that you can’t refuse.” “You would be stupid to turn down such a good deal.” Do these slogans sound familiar to you? If so, then… [Read More]

Filed Under: Avoiding Scams, Opinion Tagged With: emotions, manipulation, marketing scams

How I Almost Got Scammed: Lessons Learned from Trouble in “Paradise”

By Kevin

Enjoying Southeast Asia Last winter, me and the girlfriend went on a one month tour of Southeast Asia. It was a fantastic trip, and the countries we visited were very beautiful; we stopped by Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Taiwan. We took in a lot of sights, ate many different types of food, and took in… [Read More]

Filed Under: Avoiding Scams Tagged With: kino, marketing scams, Neuro-linguistic programming, Phuket, salesmen, scams, Thailand, timeshare presentations

How Mutual Funds Rip You Off with Extra Fees and Charges

By Kevin

In my last post, I showed how index funds allow you to save more money by losing less of your investment returns to management fees. Here is what different management expense ratio (MER) levels will cost you on an initial $10,000 investment at 10% growth compounded annually:

Filed Under: Avoiding Scams, Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Saving Your Money Tagged With: back-end load, deferred sales, front-end load, index funds, low load, management expense ratio, marketing scams, mutual funds, sales charge

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

The “Guest Post”: A Deceptive Advertising Trick

By Kevin

The role of advertising on the Internet is changing. With the rising power of Google and the role of links in determining placement in the search results, a growing number of companies are seeking to buy their way up the rankings by purchasing links on other websites. The problem with purchasing links in order to… [Read More]

Filed Under: Avoiding Scams, Miscellaneous, Opinion Tagged With: advertising, blogging, debt consolidation, ethics, guest post, marketing scams, scams

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