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Why financial literacy matters
– moneysense.ca
November is Financial Literacy Month in Canada and in an effort to share concrete wealth-building tips with more Canadians than ever we’ve teamed up with a number of television, radio and publishing partners.
Visit MoneySenseWeek.ca daily Nov. 8 – 14 for a collection of stories and resources designed to a improve your knowledge in the areas of saving (Monday), debt management (Tuesday), real estate (Wednesday), investing (Thursday), retirement planning (Friday) and financial advice (Saturday). Watch and listen for more on BT Toronto, CityNews, Cityline, Chatelaine, Today’s Parent, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, 680 News, 660 News and News 1130 and share your favourite tips with your social network using #FLM2015.
Effectively managing money is not only part of everyday life, it’s essential for achieving all kinds of goals.
“It could be a short-term goal like buying a new mobile device or a ticket to a show. Or long-term, like saving for your kids’ education or for retirement,” said Jane Rooney, Canada’s Financial Literacy Leader, said in a speech to kick off the federal government’s Count me in, Canada program earlier this year…
Visit MoneySenseWeek.ca daily Nov. 8 – 14 for a collection of stories and resources designed to a improve your knowledge in the areas of saving (Monday), debt management (Tuesday), real estate (Wednesday), investing (Thursday), retirement planning (Friday) and financial advice (Saturday). Watch and listen for more on BT Toronto, CityNews, Cityline, Chatelaine, Today’s Parent, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, 680 News, 660 News and News 1130 and share your favourite tips with your social network using #FLM2015.
Effectively managing money is not only part of everyday life, it’s essential for achieving all kinds of goals.
“It could be a short-term goal like buying a new mobile device or a ticket to a show. Or long-term, like saving for your kids’ education or for retirement,” said Jane Rooney, Canada’s Financial Literacy Leader, said in a speech to kick off the federal government’s Count me in, Canada program earlier this year…
Nassim Taleb’s 6 tips for embracing risk
– moneysense.ca
Nassim Taleb has two categories for people: those who fall apart during times of crisis, and those who profit from them. The scholar, former options trader and author of some of the most influential books of the last 20 years calls the latter group “antifragile.” They are not just able to survive in a world of unpredictability: they actually thrive on disorder.
“The world is more random than we think,” Taleb explained in a rare interview with MoneySense before a keynote address to chief investment staff from Canada’s biggest pension plans. “You are going to make more mistakes than you ever think you are going to make, and you don’t know where or when.”
Taleb’s message will resonate with investors who endured two major market crashes in a single decade: the tech wreck at the turn of the millennium and the 2008–09 financial crisis. His major works—Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan and Antifragile—have challenged an investment industry that until recently clung doggedly to the efficient markets hypothesis: the theory that markets are rational, as are the investors that operate within them…
“The world is more random than we think,” Taleb explained in a rare interview with MoneySense before a keynote address to chief investment staff from Canada’s biggest pension plans. “You are going to make more mistakes than you ever think you are going to make, and you don’t know where or when.”
Taleb’s message will resonate with investors who endured two major market crashes in a single decade: the tech wreck at the turn of the millennium and the 2008–09 financial crisis. His major works—Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan and Antifragile—have challenged an investment industry that until recently clung doggedly to the efficient markets hypothesis: the theory that markets are rational, as are the investors that operate within them…
Spread the word
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Check MoneySenseWeek.ca daily Nov. 8-14, 2015 for a collection of tips and resources to help you build your wealth.
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6 questions to ask during an open house
– moneysense.ca
An open house is the real estate world’s version of window shopping. It’s an opportunity to sneak a peak at a neighbour’s home, and a chance to size up a potential house or neighbourhood.
But for most window-shoppers, ignoring or minimizing talk with the real estate agent at an open house lands somewhere between a challenge and a sport. It shouldn’t. While there’s no question that the realtor hopes to drum up business by holding an open house, they can also be a wealth of information. It’s just a matter of asking the right questions. Here are six questions to ask at the next open house you visit.
1. Why do the sellers want to move?
Listen, we all read the same real estate advice, so it’s quite unlikely the agent you ask is going to tell you the full story but even a partial story—or no story at all—can help.
Take, for instance, the absolutely stunning semi-detached I recently showed to a growing family. Like many urban Toronto homes, the bedrooms were on the smaller side and there was only one bathroom to share for the entire family…
But for most window-shoppers, ignoring or minimizing talk with the real estate agent at an open house lands somewhere between a challenge and a sport. It shouldn’t. While there’s no question that the realtor hopes to drum up business by holding an open house, they can also be a wealth of information. It’s just a matter of asking the right questions. Here are six questions to ask at the next open house you visit.
1. Why do the sellers want to move?
Listen, we all read the same real estate advice, so it’s quite unlikely the agent you ask is going to tell you the full story but even a partial story—or no story at all—can help.
Take, for instance, the absolutely stunning semi-detached I recently showed to a growing family. Like many urban Toronto homes, the bedrooms were on the smaller side and there was only one bathroom to share for the entire family…
