Welcome to a new Weekend Reading edition, things you can learn from travel. I’m back from vacation (just a few hours ago in fact….) and I have a LOT of reader emails and other items to catch-up on – ...

I think about it a lot. I write about it a lot. Better still, I’m planning for our retirement income needs just around the corner. As we all know by now, personal finance is forever personal. You need ...

Inspired by a few recent reader emails along with some comments to various blogposts, I thought I would organize a post that includes some key wealth-building rules to live by. Enjoy the list, a ...

Source: X/Twitter. Bank of Canada; January 2022. Headlining this Weekend Reading edition is the news that inflation is coming down. Statistics Canada released their latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) ...

Is the RRSP Meltdown Strategy Worth It? Inspired by reader comments and some recent reader emails, I wondered this very question: is the RRSP meltdown strategy worth it? I had my thoughts on this ...

But the markets are cyclical and I certainly can’t predict the financial future. There can be periods of high-growth, low-growth and despite the recency bias with some investors with the S&P 500: ...

How much real estate should you have in your portfolio? I’ve written a lot about real estate, our journey in and out of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) over the years, and more recently this ...

What is Beat the TSX (BTSX)? This blog is about saving and investing my way beyond a $1 million investment portfolio using some Canadian stocks that pay dividends and deliver capital appreciation to ...

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