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Investing in Taxable Accounts Can be Worthwhile

By Canadian Capitalist / Online only, 21/11/12 / Comments Off

In a recent interview, MoneySense Editor Jon Chevreau asked Mercer actuary Malcolm Hamilton whether he still thinks that saving in taxable accounts is futile and Mr. Hamilton had this to say: It’s always better to invest inside tax shelters than outside. Some Canadians have to invest outside tax shelters because they exhaust their tax shelters [...]
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Bloggers Offer their Best Financial Tips

By Canadian Capitalist / Online only, 19/11/12 / Comments Off

November has been designated as Financial Literacy Month (FLM) by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, a Federal Government body tasked with educating consumers about financial products and services. As part of FLM, Glenn Cooke of Life Insurance Canada organized a campaign by Canadian bloggers who published their best financial tips below in reverse alphabetical [...]
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Money Tip: Buy a home you can afford

By Canadian Capitalist / Online only, 15/11/12 / Comments Off

November has been designated as Financial Literacy Month (FLM) by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, a Federal Government body tasked with educating consumers about financial products and services. As part of FLM, Glenn Cooke of Life Insurance Canada organized a campaign by a dozen bloggers to publish their best financial tip. This post is [...]
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This and That: Fiscal Cliff, Vanguard ETFs and more…

By Canadian Capitalist / Online only, 8/11/12 / Comments Off

Falling off the Fiscal Cliff: With the US elections over and done with, we are going to hear incessant referrals to the term “fiscal cliff” in the news. This CNN Money article explains the budget and tax cut items that make up the fiscal cliff. Unfortunately, Canadians need to pay to this as well because [...]
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Sleepy Portfolio 3Q-2012 Update

By Canadian Capitalist / Online only, 31/10/12 / Comments Off

Background I started the Sleepy Portfolio in 2005 to benchmark my personal portfolio, which at that time was mostly invested in individual stocks. The portfolio started off with an initial outlay of $100,000 but no new money has been added since. This is not simply a model portfolio; it reflects investment returns that can be [...]
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High Interest Savings Accounts at Discount Brokers

By Canadian Capitalist / Online only, 29/10/12 / Comments Off

[Note: The following post was originally published on May 18, 2010. Recently, TD Waterhouse started offering only TD Bank High Interest Savings accounts to its clients. Therefore, I've updated and somewhat revised this post to make it current. Feel free to have it bookmarked.] In response to yesterday’s post on the Renaissance High Interest Savings [...]
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Impact of Benchmark Change on Vanguard MSCI EAFE ETF (VEA)

By Canadian Capitalist / Online only, 16/10/12 / Comments Off

Recently, Vanguard announced that it will be switching the benchmark index for many of its Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF). In an earlier post, we took a closer look at what the benchmark change means for the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) and found a significant difference in past performance. In this post, we’ll take a closer [...]
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Double Dipping on Currency Conversions in US Dollar RRSP DRiPs

By Canadian Capitalist / Online only, 10/10/12 / Comments Off

Many investors sign up for synthetic Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRiPs) at discount brokers to save on trading commissions. With a synthetic DRiP, an investor can reinvest dividend payments in whole shares and have the leftover amount deposited as cash in their account. Let’s take an example. Investor John owns 1000 shares of ABC Corp. (ABC), [...]
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This and That: Financial Risk, Kevin O’Leary and more…

By Canadian Capitalist / Online only, 5/10/12 / Comments Off

Bernstein’s lesson from the Financial Crash In an interview with Money magazine, author William Bernstein explains the key lesson of the financial lesson that can be applied to the asset allocation of folks at or nearing retirement. One could argue that even retirees need a healthy allocation to stocks to survive the ravages of inflation. [...]
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Vanguard US ETF Benchmarks are Changing

By Canadian Capitalist / Online only, 3/10/12 / Comments Off

Vanguard’s US-listed ETFs such as Vanguard Total Stock Market Index ETF (VTI), Vanguard MSCI EAFE ETF (VEA) and Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) are popular among Canadian index investors because they offer a cheap way to diversify into global stock markets. Investors in these ETFs should take note of a recent announcement by Vanguard [...]
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