Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Archive for May 15th, 2009

We had another get together of the National Capital Financial Bloggers Association this past week and the regulars were there, but we also had a special guest appearance by Canadian Financial DIY, and he has been added to the prestigious N.C.F.B.A. blogroll in the right hand column. A very interesting chap and with many of the same attributes as yours truly (worked in the same places, from Montreal, etc.,). He also is brave enough to show a picture of himself on his blog (I may one day, but I need to find a top hat and monocle first). 

Financial Blogging This Week

Many interesting posts for this week, and let’s start off with our spotlight blogger this week:

• Canadian Financial DIY wrote an interesting tome about a Modest Proposal for Preventing Older Retired People in Canada… I think I am worried now, hope no politicians take this up.
• Michael James writes about Tax Avoidance on New Homes (in Ontario), which may make for an interesting cat and mouse game between the government and it’s HST and builders. 
• Preet at Where Does All My Money Go continues his educational series about Indexes (and active vs. passive investing) with The Market versus The Index (in a steel cage match). 
• The Canadian Capitalist writes another scathing commentary on Our World-Beating Mutual Fees, seriously folks read this stuff and get the heck away from those high MERs. 
• The Canadian Tax Resource is writing some helpful posts in the series Estate Planning 101 and one I enjoyed is Estate Planning 101 – Death, Taxes, and your RRSPs and RRIFs.
• After getting ripped off No Debt Plan published a helpful 7 Ways to Identify and Avoid On Line Scams. 
• Riscario Insider has an interesting post Preston Manning on Financial Planning, which I enjoyed, but the title is a little misleading. 
• I always enjoy when folks talk about their personal lives and their hobbies and One Caveman does in his article Good Personal Finance Takes Practice.

Victoria Day Weekend

Given it is an early long weekend here in Canada, don’t look for anything on Monday, I will be enjoying a day off, but look for a new video for the weekend enjoyment.