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Apply for waiver of TFSA over-contribution penalties

What to do if you over-contribute to your TFSA.

Apply for waiver of TFSA over-contribution penalties

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This and That: Interest rates, Rob Arnott and more…

The Bank of Canada increased interest rates by 1/4 per cent this week. The Prime Rate to which the...

This and That: Interest rates, Rob Arnott and more…

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This and That: Flash Crash and more…

Morningstar warns investors against the false sense of security provided by stop-loss orders. As the flash crash has shown,...

This and That: Flash Crash and more…

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Book Review: The Elements of Investing

The authors of this slim volume need no introduction. Burton Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street is a...

Book Review: The Elements of Investing

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Cheating on taxes and Benford’s Law

Benford’s Law states that in many real-life sources of data, the leading digit is not distributed uniformly. Instead the...

Cheating on taxes and Benford’s Law

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Portfolio Allocation to Canadian Stocks

Though the Canadian market makes up just 3.6% of the World stock markets, Canadian investors are justified in being...

Portfolio Allocation to Canadian Stocks

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Stock Market Weightings excluding Canada

The holdings page of the Vanguard Total World Stock ETF (VT) is a good place to obtain data on...

Stock Market Weightings excluding Canada

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How do you say “bubble” in Chinese?

Edward Chancellor, author of an excellent book on past financial manias called Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of...

How do you say “bubble” in Chinese?

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Competition Bureau versus CREA, Round 2

The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) tried its best to beat back the charge by the Competition Bureau that...

Competition Bureau versus CREA, Round 2