Many people find tax instalments confusing and scary. They're not so bad once you understand why they exist and how they're calculated.
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It's still possible to get into double-taxation trouble with the Home Buyer's Plan as I did many years ago.
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How tax-free compounding helps. A scenario showing how RRSPs and TFSAs benefit investors.
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Whenever I read a strident piece about how the cost of a latte doesn't make a meaningful difference to anyone's finances, I see the author writing to the top quartile of wealth or income and treating the rest as cattle.
New book review: The 5 Types of Wealth
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New book review: The 5 Types of Wealth
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Index investing is a statement about personal limitations. But almost all of us have these investing limitations.
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New: Beware the practical expedient rule in secondary private equity funds
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New: Beware the practical expedient rule in secondary private equity funds
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A risk-free way to create 7 mutual funds that beat their benchmarks for a decade despite sky-high MERs.
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"Pay yourself first" is more complicated than it seems at first.
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I've been told to take it easy on financial advisors because most of them have their heart in the right place. My thoughts:
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The right mindset for trading equities - whether you trade equities daily or annually, here the way to think of the person taking the opposite side of your trades:
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New: My investment return for 2025
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New: My investment return for 2025
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New: Retirement income planning
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New: Retirement income planning
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AI is great! It can produce wildly wrong answers in one-tenth the time it takes me to fix it.
Modest investment returns are better than they appear when compared to the past.
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5 years ago I said that fund fee "disclosures must be expressed in dollars." We've begun doing this with fuller disclosures coming in early 2027. Hopefully, they'll help more investors understand what they pay.
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Defending the all stock portfolio - It's interesting that I got a lot of pushback for being 100% in stocks fifteen years ago, but now that stocks have been soaring for years, the idea gets a lot of support.
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CRM3 question:
Over the years I've encouraged many clients of the wealth arms of big Canadian banks to ask what they pay in fees. Not one got a straight answer or even an approximate total. Will these wealth arms find a way to avoid the intent of CRM3?
New: Alternative investments
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My spreadsheet emailed me this morning saying it's time to rebalance my portfolio again. I guess stocks went up more than I noticed lately. I'm glad computers are paying attention so I don't have to.
New: Alternative investments
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New: How should you plan for your spending to change throughout retirement?
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New: How should you plan for your spending to change throughout retirement?
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Spoke to a guy from California who claims to have moved 3/4 into crypto after the last US election. Didn't trust the admin to run the economy properly. What if crypto goes down even more? He 'knows' that can't happen. Once again I failed to talk someone away from crazy risk.
BMO Investorline's AI recommends leverage for me. This is clearly a bad idea for someone who is retired. It also seems strange to get this kind of advice from a platform that is supposed to be "order execution only."
