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Regular readers of Canadian Finance Blog know about Jim Yih, who contributes great articles on this site, as well as his own site, Wealth Web Gurus. Jim was really ahead of his time, having what is basically a blog since 2000. Retire Happy Blog Today Wealth Web Gurus makes the transformation to Retire Happy Blog….
Good week for submissions to the Canadian Finance Carnival. For those that are submitting, please let me know if you’d like to see any other categories to better fit your posts into. Debt and Credit Big Cajun Man at THE Canadian Personal Finance Site presents Interest Rates Remain the Same but New Mortgage Rules, saying…
The following excerpt on shareholder rights is from Investing in BRIC Countries, written by Svetlana Borodina and published by McGraw-Hill. Even companies in the most emerging of emerging markets understand these days that enforcement of basic shareholder rights is a priority in attracting Western investment. Shareholder rights have improved remarkably in many of the BRIC…
Credit Cards Canada is hosting the first-ever Personal Finance Guest Blogging Contest. There are 13 prizes to be won, the top prize is worth $1,000. Even the smallest prize is $100, and you might have pretty good odds of getting a prize if not too many people enter. So write a post and submit it…
Your shiny, new credit card just arrived in the mail, but how much do you really know about it? Do you know what kind of fees you will pay if you make a late payment, go over your credit limit, or take out a cash advance? A study published in 2008, Learning in the Credit…
I think at some point, we all have to come to a decision in our life about certain priorities in regards to our lifestyle and workplace… live to work, or work to live. One of these, it seems, must always come before the other. We can either choose to live for our work, where our…
With yesterday’s announcement changing the maximum mortgage length from 35 to 30 years, you might be asking how much mortgage can I afford? As The Globe and Mail pointed out, if someone bought a home at the average Canadian resale price of $344,551 at a 4% interest rate and a 5% down payment, a 35-year…
