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Carnival of Financial Planning 09-21-2012

Best Personal Financial Planning and Personal Investment Articles this Week from Personal Finance Blogs Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #255 – September 21, 2012 Welcome to the September 21, 2012 Edition #255 of the Carnival of Financial Planning. The Carnival of Financial Planning takes a long-term view of personal financial planning for individuals and families. […]

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Personal Finance

The Seven Links Of MSB Project

Mark from the Blunt Bean Counter challenged me to do the seven links project thing.  Basically I have to pick the seven best posts on this blog in various categories.  This is surprisingly hard, especially when you can’t remember half the posts you have written. Most beautiful post Dream Wedding – There aren’t many things […]

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Investing

Derek Foster Interview On The Idiot Millionaire

I recently had the pleasure of talking with Derek Foster who is busy promoting his new book – The Idiot Millionaire.  I really enjoyed our conversation – Derek is a super nice guy. I’m well aware of the controversy around the numbers in his first book and the fact that he sold all his equities […]

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Personal Finance

Mint.com Canada Review – Online Free Budgeting Website

I’ve been looking for some kind of software that will help me organize my bank accounts a bit.  I’m not into budgeting, but I do have a small business and need to come up with several totals at tax time.  I also would like to be able to see income/expense breakdowns without doing a lot […]

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Happy New Year, A Reflection And A Few Links

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you all have a great 2011. Personal Review When I look back at 2010, it was a very good year financially for my family – record income, record mortgage payments, record RRSP contributions.  Health-wise, it wasn’t so good.  It seemed like some or all of us were always sick […]

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The RESP Book: The Complete Guide to Registered Education Savings Plans for Canadians

I’m happy to finally announce the launch of my book: The RESP Book:  The Complete Guide to Registered Education Savings Plans for Canadians What the book is about This book contains everything you need to know about RESP accounts. How to set-up an RESP account Where to set-up an RESP account Who should set one […]

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LinkStuff – Book Launch Party Edition

I was reading about the book launch party for a book I’m eagerly waiting for – Pensionize Your Nest Egg by Moshe Milevsky and Alexandra MacQueen over on Jon Chevreau’s blog.  Apparently it was quite the affair with catered food, financial celebrities and whatnot. It had never occurred to me to have a launch party […]

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LinkStuff – Exciting Week Edition

Big week around here. Mr. Cheap announced on Tuesday that he would be leaving the blog and on Wednesday I mentioned that I’ve written a book. The book is completed, but I’m working on some of the final publishing details. The final copy was submitted to the publisher and I received a proof copy yesterday. […]