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Good Day Everyone, As promised, today’s post is a recap of all my previous stock of the month picks. It’ll include the total return since my writing about it and a brief update on how I feel about the company. 1) Extendicare (EXE) Date of Mention- September 1, 2016 Price at Mention – $8.48 Dividend Income Since
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Good Day Everyone, As some of you readers may already know, I’m in the middle of planning my wedding in September. As such, we’ve discussed many aspects of our future lives together, with finances being a significant part of that discussion. In my opinion, it is a must for all couples contemplating marriage to discuss how
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Good Day Everyone, I’m going to continue on the theme of communication and finances because I strongly believe that it’s the most important thing you can do. Yesterday morning, I was listening to the radio on the way in to work. The topic of their conversation was whether or not it’s OK to discuss your
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Good Day Everyone, Lately I’ve been writing more about things like investing and stock picks, but today I’ll bring it back to the foundation of personal finance. One of the reasons why my logo is a weightlifter is because I find there are so many parallels between managing your money and getting in shape. Allow
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Good Day Everyone, Sorry I haven’t posted in a couple weeks, it’s year end at my work and it’s been busy at home as well with the wedding planning. I’m back though, and it’s time for another Stock of the Month. Today we’re looking at Telus. Most of you reading this should be familiar with
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Good Day Everyone Today I’ll be sharing with you on my mortgage renewal process and going through some of the things I learned along the way. So to start, my original mortgage was with BMO for a 5 year fixed rate mortgage @ 2.99%. At the time, my dad told me to go with fixed because
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Good Day Everyone, I don’t usually do 2 posts a week, but I found this story too compelling not to write about. As many of you may have heard, some TD Bank employees admitted to advising clients to invest into funds that were not suitable due to sales pressure from management. Some employees also said
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Good Day Everyone, Today I want to talk about a back and forth email conversation I had with a reader recently regarding an investment opportunity he had. He wasn’t entirely sure if this investment was suitable for me so he asked me for some advice. I won’t mention his name or the specific investment,
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Good Day Everyone Thank you all for joining me for another edition of Stock of the Month. I know I usually get these out on the last day of the month, but last week I was helping Future Mrs. Options2Riches with her main 2017 goal, which I can now happily say is accomplished (more of
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Good Day Everyone, Last week I got a text from my cousin “in your opinion, how much money should you have in an emergency fund?” I knew my own answer so I didn’t even have to think about it. The first thought that came to mind though was “blog post” so here we are. Before we
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