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Is Selling Your Home: A Smart Decision for Retirement? Jan 7th
For many people, owning a mortgage-free home in retirement can be a financially smart decision, as it allows them to keep their expenses low by only having to worry about property taxes, maintenance, utilities, and insurance. However, if your home is particularly valuable or no longer fits your n.... More »
How to plan for retirement for Canadians: A review of Four Steps to a Worry-Free Retirement course + MORE Oct 26th
With November incoming and being Financial Literacy Month in Canada, it seems appropriate to devote this edition of the Retired Money column to a new Canadian DIY retirement course created by MoneySense’s “Making sense of the markets” columnist Kyle Prevost.
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Canada’s best no foreign transaction fee credit cards 2021 Jun 9th
Millions of Canadians travel abroad with their domestic credit cards and don’t realize they’re racking up foreign transaction fees (often referred to as “forex” fees) that can amount to 2.5% on top every purchase. The good news is, there are a few credit cards out there that offer either zer.... More »
Reni Odetoyinbo on why you should pay yourself first and have multiple streams of income Jun 6th
Social media content creator Reni Odetoyinbo started investing at age 18 and bought her first house at 23. Everyone wanted to know how she did it, so she started documenting her journey to home ownership on her YouTube Channel in 2020.
Odetoyinbo quit her full-time marketing job at a .... More »
Investing inside a corporation: what you need to know + MORE Jul 23rd
A MoneySense reader writes:
We have $550,000 to invest in our corporation and need something tax-efficient. Although we’re retired, we don’t need this money for the foreseeable future, so we’re investing for the long term. We’re considering either DIY investing following one of the Couch Pot.... More »
How to tell if a company is honest
– moneysense.ca
Despite what you may witness on Twitter, people generally see the good in others, whether that’s their friends, colleagues or the executives running the companies they invest in. We want to believe a business we’re buying into is on the up-and-up, that what they’re saying about their operation is truthful and that they really will help you make some money. But, as we’ve seen—Enron, Worldcom, various mortgage brokers and banks in the 2008 financial crisis, for example—there are business people who have other motivations besides honesty with investors.
More recently, it’s been reported that several Canadian cannabis companies, including Aphria and Aurora, have been sued by investors for allegedly making misleading claims, failing to disclose revenue problems, inaccurate financial statements and more. These claims have yet to be proven in court, but they’re an indication that once-rosy relationships between investors and the companies they own could sour at any moment. (You could argue that cannabis investors should have known what they were signing up for…
More recently, it’s been reported that several Canadian cannabis companies, including Aphria and Aurora, have been sued by investors for allegedly making misleading claims, failing to disclose revenue problems, inaccurate financial statements and more. These claims have yet to be proven in court, but they’re an indication that once-rosy relationships between investors and the companies they own could sour at any moment. (You could argue that cannabis investors should have known what they were signing up for…