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TFSA contribution room calculator + MORE Jan 10th
Find out your current tax-free savings account (TFSA) contribution limit by using this calculator.
TFSA is a bit of a misnomer. While you can use it for straightforward savings, think of it more accurately as an investment holding account to store things like exchange-traded funds .... More »
Making sense of the markets this week: December 14 Dec 12th
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.
What’s coming down the pipeline for Canadian investors?
Canadian pipeline companies move oil and gas around North America. They don’t carry the risk of having to find an.... More »
Making sense of the markets this week: October 6, 2024 + MORE Oct 4th
Kyle Prevost, creator of 4 Steps to a Worry-Free Retirement, Canada’s DIY retirement planning course, shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.
Nike and Carnival’s Shareholders Cruise to Profitable Destination
According to this week’s earnings, we would rather.... More »
Trudeau confirms $1.3 billion for Blue Line, leaving Quebec to pay $3.9 billion - Montreal Gazette Jul 4th
Trudeau confirms $1.3 billion for Blue Line, leaving Quebec to pay $3.9 billion Montreal GazetteTrudeau announces $1.3-billion in federal funding for Montreal metro extension The Globe and MailTrudeau announces $1.3 billion in federal funding for Montreal metro extension &.... More »
Consumer watchdog agency asks court to reconsider ruling + MORE Nov 18th
WASHINGTON – The government’s consumer finance watchdog is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that said the agency’s structure is unconstitutional.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday called the 2-1 ruling last month “dramatic and unprecede.... More »
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.
August 2013 Dividend Income Update
– myownadvisor.ca
Welcome to my latest dividend income update. For those of you new to these posts on my site, every month I discuss my approach to investing using dividend paying stocks and how reinvesting the dividends paid from the Canadian companies we own are helping us reach financial freedom. You can check out my previous dividend income update here.
One of key reasons I’m investing in dividend-paying stocks today is to build a war chest of stocks that generate retirement cash flow years down the road. I’m nowhere near my goal but it’s getting closer every month mainly because most dividends paid are reinvested to buy more shares in the stocks I own. With any money left over, I save that money for a few months and when other companies are priced right, I make more purchases in either stocks or ETFs. This has been my process for a number of years now and I don’t intend to change it.
In my previous update, I told you I made a small purchase in Telus. This month, I didn’t have enough money to make any investments so the savings game is on…
One of key reasons I’m investing in dividend-paying stocks today is to build a war chest of stocks that generate retirement cash flow years down the road. I’m nowhere near my goal but it’s getting closer every month mainly because most dividends paid are reinvested to buy more shares in the stocks I own. With any money left over, I save that money for a few months and when other companies are priced right, I make more purchases in either stocks or ETFs. This has been my process for a number of years now and I don’t intend to change it.
In my previous update, I told you I made a small purchase in Telus. This month, I didn’t have enough money to make any investments so the savings game is on…
How and why Twitter flew from obscurity to the height of popularity
– canadianbusiness.com
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Pope. President Obama. Queen Elizabeth. Oprah. You.
When Twitter started seven years ago as an obscure medium for geeks, critics dismissed it as an exercise in narcissism. Some thought it would be as intriguing as watching people gaze at their bellybuttons. But it quickly matured into a worldwide messaging service used by everyone from heads of state to revolutionaries to companies trying to hawk products.
Now, Twitter is taking the next critical step in its evolution — selling stock to the public. It promises to be the most hyped and scrutinized initial public offerings since Facebook’s Wall Street debut in May 2012. To be successful, the company will need to become an advertising behemoth and prove that the same service that has already helped change the course of history can also make money.
Twitter quietly slipped out news of its plan to go public in a tweet on Thursday afternoon. By the next morning, nearly 14,000 of Twitter’s 200 million users had retransmitted the message…
When Twitter started seven years ago as an obscure medium for geeks, critics dismissed it as an exercise in narcissism. Some thought it would be as intriguing as watching people gaze at their bellybuttons. But it quickly matured into a worldwide messaging service used by everyone from heads of state to revolutionaries to companies trying to hawk products.
Now, Twitter is taking the next critical step in its evolution — selling stock to the public. It promises to be the most hyped and scrutinized initial public offerings since Facebook’s Wall Street debut in May 2012. To be successful, the company will need to become an advertising behemoth and prove that the same service that has already helped change the course of history can also make money.
Twitter quietly slipped out news of its plan to go public in a tweet on Thursday afternoon. By the next morning, nearly 14,000 of Twitter’s 200 million users had retransmitted the message…
Investments doing poorly? Three things you can do
– thestar.com
There’s no such thing as an easy low-risk fix to boost your investment returns. Risk and reward are flip sides of the same coin.Will of hospital-dwelling heiress whose dad founded Las Vegas is heading toward NYC trial
– canadianbusiness.com
NEW YORK, N.Y. – She had wealth few could boast and used it to finance a life few would choose — an heiress to the fortune of the founder of Las Vegas spending 20 years voluntarily in New York hospital rooms.
Now Huguette Clark’s reclusive existence is about to be scrutinized in a Manhattan courtroom, where jury selection is due to start Tuesday in a civil trial over her will. With an estimated $300 million at stake, the case broaches questions about aging, caregiving and the line between encouraging gratitude and extracting gifts.
Clark’s distant relatives say hospital executives, a nurse, a lawyer, an accountant and others in her small circle induced a dependent, fragile woman to give them millions of dollars during her lifetime and in her will. The beneficiaries say she was a sharp-minded, strong-willed, munificent person whose decisions were as deliberate as they were unusual.
Signed when the childless Clark was 98, the disputed April 2005 will largely left her estate to arts charities, her nurse and a goddaughter…
Now Huguette Clark’s reclusive existence is about to be scrutinized in a Manhattan courtroom, where jury selection is due to start Tuesday in a civil trial over her will. With an estimated $300 million at stake, the case broaches questions about aging, caregiving and the line between encouraging gratitude and extracting gifts.
Clark’s distant relatives say hospital executives, a nurse, a lawyer, an accountant and others in her small circle induced a dependent, fragile woman to give them millions of dollars during her lifetime and in her will. The beneficiaries say she was a sharp-minded, strong-willed, munificent person whose decisions were as deliberate as they were unusual.
Signed when the childless Clark was 98, the disputed April 2005 will largely left her estate to arts charities, her nurse and a goddaughter…
