I married a dietitian and together we often draw a lot of parallels to each others field of expertise. I find it quite fun to relate our personal health to financial health so here are some of my most memorable parallels:
1. Simple not easy – discipline, work, effort is the key. Like many people, I [...]

In the Information Age the only thing we can count on is change itself. After more than a decade in which millions of people’s working lives have been disrupted by corporate outsourcing, downsizing and reengineering, individuals have come to realize that Canadian companies can no longer offer them job security.
In the New Economy “we have [...]

Throughout 2004, investment advisors were frequently vilified in the financial press. They were accused of such things as: not disclosing their total profits and commissions, putting clients in higher-cost house-brand mutual funds, in the case of brokers - churning accounts to make commissions, and generally of being in a conflict of interest position and failing [...]

If the purpose of “ethical investing” is to avoid “supporting” unethical and otherwise wicked corporations, then, I am sorry to say, it is (with rare exceptions) a complete and utter waste of time.
In a nutshell, this is because it is customers and not investors who ultimately decide the fate of any corporation. Any company with [...]

One of the biggest misconceptions about retirement is the concept that retirement means not working. In fact, with all the pressures on Canadians to self fund retirement, one of the easiest solutions might be to incorporate work into our retirement.
Current trends are showing that work is becoming an increasing component of retirement.
85% of Americans, [...]