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Contracts For Difference for Canadian Retail Investors: Beware!
on Oct 29, 2009 in CFD Last Sunday, GlobeInvestor posted the news that henceforth Canadian retail investors in Ontario and Quebec would be allowed to open accounts to trade in Contracts For Difference (CFDs). As Wikipedia describes, CFDs have long existed in the UK, Austra...
TFSA Account Adoption Creeping Steadily Up
on Oct 27, 2009 in TFSA RBC has just released a survey that shows the number of Canadians opening TFSA accounts is climbing steadily and is now at a quarter of eligible (18+) Canadians. Back in April Jonathan Chevreau had reported in his Wealthy Boomer blog that 20% had ope...
Friday Fun: How Much do Pro Golfers Make?
on Oct 23, 2009Ever notice how the sports reporting on the winners of golf tournaments says little or nothing about how much money pro golfers make? In these hard economic times it isn't wise to rub it in how much these guys and gals make.Canadian Business / MoneyS...
Government Ban on RRSP - TFSA Swaps Revisited: One Red Herring and the Real Problem
on Oct 22, 2009 in RRSP TFSA taxes Sometimes I'm a bit thick and it takes a while for the real reality to distinguish itself from the illusory reality.The Illusory Reality: Yesterday I noted the scenario mentioned by two other bloggers - see here and here - for supposedly moving funds...
TFSA Ban on Asset Swaps with RRSPs
on Oct 21, 2009 in RRSP TFSA taxes Updated later in the day - see red text.The proposed new rules to eliminate potential abuses of TFSA accounts announced the other day by Finance Minister Flaherty includes one strange rule (see the Department of Finance's Backgrounder section on Asse...
Book Review: The Secret Language of Money by David Krueger with John David Mann
on Oct 19, 2009 in book review investment psychology I like this book. Reading it made me reflect, it explained puzzling human behaviour about money and investing with a neat combination of physical and psychological science and good stories, it gave me practical, implementable advice to, as its subtit...
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