Dividend Dollar Daily Round Up

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For those of you who don’t know what your asset allocation should look like, The Dividend Guy has a good post about possibly modelling your asset allocation after pension plans.
Dividends4Life has a funny post about one spouse being frugal and the other being the spender.
Shareholders of the dividend paying company BCE [...]

Plasma Persecution

I want a plasma tv!

You’re probably wondering what wanting a plasma tv has to do with personal finance? Well, a lot actually. It relates to our spending habits, our wants vs needs, instant gratification, savings, budgeting etc.
I want a plasma tv and i want one bad! I have wanted [...]

Why We Want You to Be Rich: My Thoughts

I recently finished reading the book Why We Want You to Be Rich by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki. My reason for reading this book, as with any financial book, was to see if i could learn anything new for my investing future. I was also looking to see if i could gain [...]

Dividend Dollar Daily Round Up

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Not really financial news, but this story about Bell throttling speeds of 3rd party internet providers could possibly affect you.
A lost decade of investing?
The Dividend Guy talks about what the band Nine Inch Nails taught him about investing.
This article from John Heinzl at the Globe and Mail talks about how Canadians [...]

Warren Buffett’s Words of Wisdom

Warren Buffett is the world’s richest man (worth $62 billion…yes, that’s billion) and it would probably serve us well to listen to some of his wisdom that he espouses every year. He is actually quite entertaining too, with comments like, “You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide [...]

Dividend Dollar Daily Round Up

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Gavin Graham wrote an article about how Canadian banks are oversold.
Tyler over at Dividend Money had a novel way to make some money while in college. Any college or university students would find this particularly interesting.
As someone who is looking to purchase their first home, I found this article about [...]

Should I Get a New Credit Card?

I recently came across a post on cash back credit cards over at MillionDollarJourney. He also has a follow up here. RedFlagDeals also has a good comparison of rewards cards which is worth a look.
It got me to thinking that maybe i should get a new credit card and [...]

Dividend Dollar Daily Round Up

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I’ve heard the term “equalization payments” used before, but never really understood what they were until i read this article about Ontario becoming a have not province.
Dividends4Life makes and interesting comment about the number of Canadian dividend blogs.
Report On Business always has a weekly article giving a financial facelift to people.

No Fee Bank Account

So i recently decided to open a no fee banking account. We all know that banks charge fees for everything and this contributes to their always rising profits (US housing crisis not withstanding). There are probably a lot of people who will clip coupons to save a few cents on an item, yet [...]

Dividend Dollar Daily Round Up

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The Globe Investor magazine has a good article why bonds are a bad deal.
Here are the Top 10 Features Of A Profitable Rental Property by Andrew Beattie at Investopedia.