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Winning the Loser’s Game 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Long-time readers of this blog may recognize that this post title has appeared here before. That’s because I’m reviewing the sixth edition of Charles D. Ellis’s excellent investing book Winning the Lo...
Short Takes: New Vanguard ETFs, Commission-Free ETFs, and more 23 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
My posts for this week: Playing the Winner’s Game Currency Exchange at BMO Investorline Here are my short takes and some weekend reading: Canadian Couch Potato reviews the latest crop of Canadian ...
Currency Exchange at BMO Investorline 21 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Currency exchange is typically a lot more expensive than many people realize. Paying somewhere close to 1% for each exchange may not sound like much, but if you switch back and forth between Canadian ...
Playing the Winner’s Game 19 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Larry Swedroe now has a Canadian Version of his book Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett, created with the help of PWL Capital. The Canadian Version is called Playing the Winner’s Game. This ex...
Short Takes: Returns on Options, Arguing Against Indexing, and more 16 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
This week I compared dividend investing to index investing: Dividend Investing Advantages and Disadvantages Here are my short takes and some weekend reading: Larry Swedroe explains how call options...
Dividend Investing Advantages and Disadvantages 14 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Frugal Trader at Million Dollar Journey wrote a thoughtful post titled 5 Advantages of the Dividend Investing Strategy that caught my attention. He believes that both index investing and dividend inve...
Short Takes: Illusory Bond Losses, Attacks on Indexing, and more 9 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Here are my posts for this week: 9000% Per Day! Ratios to Rate Your Personal Finances Here are my short takes and some weekend reading: Canadian Couch Potato explains why losses in your bond fund ...
Ratios to Rate Your Personal Finances 8 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Don at My Dollar Plan wrote a post about 4 ratios to rate your personal finances. I thought I’d see how our family finances fare in this test and maybe learn something new. For each ratio, Don gives a...
9000% Per Day! 7 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Google does a good job of filtering spam comments out of Blogger, but I still have to delete several per day. Some of these spam commenters are clever and include key words from the post they are comm...
Short Takes: Index Portfolio Outperformance, U.S. Dollar RRSPs, and more 2 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
This week I explained a hidden cost of trying to mimic an index with a subset of stocks: Building Your Own Index with Individual Stocks Here are my short takes and some weekend reading: Canadian Co...
