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Investment uncertainty won’t scare Shell away, Canadian boss says + MORE Jun 7th
Michael Crothers says higher costs from climate-change policies that’ve helped Alberta and Canada’s environmental image are ‘manageable’
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From the comments: 'Boy, do the rich ever look after themselves.' Readers disagree over Trump pardoning Conrad Black - The Globe and Mail + MORE May 16th
From the comments: 'Boy, do the rich ever look after themselves.' Readers disagree over Trump pardoning Conrad Black The Globe and MailTrump's Doral resort is in steep decline, report says CNNTrump to provide rare look of finances in disclosure report CTV NewsTrump's.... More »
Weekend Reading – Kudos to National Bank, correcting BNN, bloggers to follow, living paycheque to paycheque + MORE Sep 9th
Learn, save, invest and prosper with My Own Advisor.
Welcome to my latest Weekend Reading edition friends. Earlier this week I shared my latest dividend income update on my journey to financial freedom and this is the tax treatment associated with Canadian dividend paying stocks to be mindful of.
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Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week Dec 6th
TORONTO – Five things to watch in Canadian business this week:
Poloz in TO: The Bank of Canada governor speaks to the Empire Club of Canada on Tuesday on monetary policy. Stephen Poloz held firm on the bank’s central lending rate last week, leaving it at 0.5 per cent even as the Federal .... More »
Does our young family have enough insurance? + MORE Jun 13th
Sammu (left) and Mandy Dhaliwall (far right) (Photo by Jennifer Roberts)
In our April 2016 issue of MoneySense, we introduced you to Sammu and Mandy Dhaliwall, a young married couple with three kids from Brampton, Ont. They are trying to juggle RRSPs, TFSAs, paying down their $350,000 mortgage as w.... More »
Energy companies face pressure to sell assets as oil slump hits profits
– theglobeandmail.com
Unexpected increase in crude oil inventory in United States served as catalyst for Wednesday’s slide
Activity in Canada’s real estate market will slow “modestly” next year as interest rates begin to rise, according to a new report from RBC Economics.
No arguments here, the TFSA has come of age
– moneysense.ca
At MoneySense, we don’t always agree.
Whether it’s buying versus leasing, real estate versus the stock market, Harper versus Mulcair or Beatles versus Stones, consensus doesn’t come easily around here. Nor should it. When it comes to money, or anything else, few things are etched in stone. Take David Aston’s feature from the last issue (“A defence of active investing,” Summer 2015). In it, he argued that the popular Couch Potato method of passive investing isn’t for everybody. He’d rather set his own risk profile in picking investments, aiming to select funds that don’t merely bob along with the ups and downs of the market’s benchmark indexes—but outperform them. “All that makes me an active investor, and by extension, a heretic here at MoneySense,” he wrote, perhaps sensing the backlash that would ensue. Of course there were those who disagreed with Aston’s method, none more than our own contributing editor and columnist Dan Bortolotti. So we invited the two of them to go toe-to-toe on the subject of passive versus active investing here in the MoneySense office…
Whether it’s buying versus leasing, real estate versus the stock market, Harper versus Mulcair or Beatles versus Stones, consensus doesn’t come easily around here. Nor should it. When it comes to money, or anything else, few things are etched in stone. Take David Aston’s feature from the last issue (“A defence of active investing,” Summer 2015). In it, he argued that the popular Couch Potato method of passive investing isn’t for everybody. He’d rather set his own risk profile in picking investments, aiming to select funds that don’t merely bob along with the ups and downs of the market’s benchmark indexes—but outperform them. “All that makes me an active investor, and by extension, a heretic here at MoneySense,” he wrote, perhaps sensing the backlash that would ensue. Of course there were those who disagreed with Aston’s method, none more than our own contributing editor and columnist Dan Bortolotti. So we invited the two of them to go toe-to-toe on the subject of passive versus active investing here in the MoneySense office…
