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What Do You Need to Get out of the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom?

By Kevin

exiting the rat race

What does it mean to get out of the rat race? To me, the phrase “getting out of the rat race” represents the desire and drive within most of us to live our passions and achieve our goals. If you are living the life of your dreams at a 9 to 5, then the rat… [Read More]

Filed Under: Growing Your Wealth Tagged With: bonds, debt, dreams, expenses, home ownership, income, index funds, lifestyle, money, mutual funds, planning, rat race, retirement, savings, stocks, wealth, Yakezie

Weekend Reading: Six-Month Anniversary Edition

By Kevin

This week, my six-month giveaway contest came to a close, and I contacted the winners. I will announce them on the site as soon as I have received a confirmation from everyone. I had a decent response rate, although a few entries had to be disqualified due to invalid email addresses and similar problems! After… [Read More]

Filed Under: Investing, Weekend Reading Tagged With: China, currency depreciation, debt, economy, finance, gold, health, index funds, inflation, interest rates, lifestyle, money, retirement, store of value, wealth, Yakezie

How to Invest in Vanguard Funds Using ETFs — and Save Money While You’re at It

By Kevin

Is it possible to save money by investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs) instead of mutual funds? For many of Vanguard‘s mutual funds, this is possible. Even more importantly, Vanguard ETFs offer Canadians and people living internationally the ability to invest in Vanguard mutual funds via ETFs. First, I’ll compare the difference between investing in… [Read More]

Filed Under: Growing Your Wealth, Investing Tagged With: ETFs, index funds, MERs, mutual funds, Vanguard

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

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