The difference between fee-only and fee-based financial planners
There is a lot of confusion about what fee-only actually means and what such planners can and cannot do...
Financial Independence
Defining financial independence
Wikipedia now makes the distinction between retirement and financial independence, or what I like to call findependence, crystal clear.
Retiring retirement: Mr. Harper, there’s a hole in my safety net
The argument for raising the age at which Canadians receive old age benefits and replacing the notion of retirement...
Plan for the unexpected
Stress-test your financial plan for any major curve-balls life may throw your way.
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$10,000 gold?
Time will tell if Nick Barisheff's new book, $10,000 Gold, belongs in the same category as such overly bullish...
If gold isn’t safe, then what is?
If there's anything the gold plunge has taught us it's that there is no single asset class out there...
The days after Findependence Day
The lines between work and leisure have blurred for MoneySense Editor Jon Chevreau, who celebrated the world's first Findependence...
Will the social media budget help the young and older underemployed?
Like most federal budgets, Economic Action Plan 2013 gave with one hand and took away with another.
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Savings accounts aren’t just futile in Cyprus
Consider the return on Canadian savings accounts and you may feel that the tax being levied in Cyprus—while an...