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4.5 year – 2.45%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by Outlook Financial and was updated on 2013-03-14. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
House sales in most parts of the country will decline this year but rebound next year while prices continue to rise, reaching an average of $377,700 in 2014, according to the latest forecast by the Canadian Real Estate Association, released Monday.Passive Income Targets – June 2013
– IntelligentSpeculator.net
It was a fairly slow month but I do feel like things are getting much clearer. Why? I’m convinced that I want to carefully start investing on margin and build my own mini-Berkshire empire. It’s been tricky to save as much in the past few weeks so I’ll be putting more focus on reducing my spending to set more aside.The reason I post this monthly update is both to keep myself accountable but also have a more public discussion about my plans and how I can become financially independent as quickly as possible.
As time goes by, my objective is to be able to live entirely off of these new income streams but also be able be diversified enough to be ok no matter what happens. In many ways, that is what’s behind my interest in dividend income. For now, I prefer to avoid using actual numbers (might change later on) so what I will do is express all of this data in %. The objective of course is for all of these flows to end up generating 100% of my current income. I also want to gradually make sure that my income producing assets are not all locked away in accounts that will only be available upon retirement…
5.5 year – 2.70%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by Outlook Financial and was updated on 2013-03-14. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
