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Living to 100 and Beyond: Building Your Portfolio

By Kevin

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This is the third in a series of articles on living to 100 and beyond. This post was originally published on June 1, 2010. In my last post on this series, I took a look into a possible future where lifespans extend out to one hundred and beyond, and the possible changes that will affect… [Read More]

Filed Under: Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Opinion, Precious Metals, Real Estate Tagged With: bonds, currency depreciation, gold, home ownership, index funds, inflation, interest rates, KISS, leverage, management expense ratio, planning, retirement, riches, Smith Manoeuvre, sovereign risk, stocks, store of value, Warren Buffett, wealth

A 20 Minute Guide to Investing

By Kevin

I recently read Barbara Friedberg’s 20 Minute Guide to Investing. This guide is an intro to investing that covers the basics of what you need to know, before you start investing. Barbara covers many topics, including the following: What should I do before I invest? Why should I invest? What is investing, and what are… [Read More]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: asset allocation, bonds, compound growth, debt, dollar cost averaging, emergency fund, ETFs, index funds, inflation, management expense ratio, mutual funds, rat race, REITs, retirement, stocks

Weekend Reading: Beginning of Fall Edition

By Kevin

This has been a busy week so far. I started classes which I am taking twice a week after work, and there is quite a bit of homework and study attached. I really don’t remember how I used to mix work and school in the past! Here are my posts over the past week: Learn… [Read More]

Filed Under: Weekend Reading Tagged With: bailouts, bonds, China, emergency fund, environment, foreign languages, fossil fuels, Gary Vaynerchuck, interest rates, learning, loans, management expense ratio, money, mortgages, mutual funds, oil, pollution, primal, retirement, riches, speculative bubble, stocks

Weekend Reading: Labour Day Weekend Edition

By Kevin

Summer Heat Another week goes by, as I enjoy the last of the summer heat. Although I will miss the heat, I need my sleep! With a combination of a hot, stuffy apartment and ragweed allergies, I don’t think I’ve gotten more than about 4-5 hours of sleep a night. Posts of the week I… [Read More]

Filed Under: Weekend Reading Tagged With: bailouts, debt, free market, frugality, inflation, living at home, management expense ratio, mutual funds, new cars, newborns, oil, organic food, patents, ponzi scheme, reflation, riches, savings, used cars

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

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