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Online “finfluencers” grow up + MORE Jul 4th
If you’re someone near or at retirement, has a column like the one you’re now reading ever “finfluenced” any of your financial decisions? Increasingly, many Canadian investors are turning to a new generation of voices online, a trend that regulators are starting to watch more closely.
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Stock news: Couche-Tard and BlackBerry post gains, Metro flags strike impact Jun 27th
Here’s a round-up of news for Canadian investors this week.
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Stock news for investors: Retail stocks tumble despite strong earnings + MORE Jun 20th
Here’s a round-up of news for Canadian investors this week.
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Is AI the ultimate retirement hack?
– moneysense.ca
There’s an interesting new book just published called I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything. The author is Joanna Stern, who was a personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal for 12 years. As the subtitle of her book reveals, she spent a year using artificial intelligence (AI) for almost every conceivable task in her daily life, which included a job, raising a family, and writing the book.
The book—described in Stern’s site as an “instant NYT bestseller”—inspired me to reach out on LinkedIn and Featured.com to see whether retirees could benefit from some of these ideas, both financially in order to get to retirement in the first place and, once there, to discover how AI might be used to spend the resulting leisure time that accrues to retirees. I know plenty of retired or semi-retired friends who are writing books, playing around with AI music or art, and other creative pursuits assisted by AI tools like Chat GPT, Grok, or Claude…


