Welcome to the third leg of the Canadian Tour of Personal Finance Blogs. I received a total of fifteen entries, which are listed in the order they were received. Enjoy!
- The RIF Meltdown Strategy: The Financial Blogger explains how you can slowly transfer assets from your RRSP into a taxable portfolio without paying too much tax on the withdrawals.
- The Disappearing Middle Class in Canada: Canadian Financial Stuff takes a look at StatsCan data and concludes that the gap between the “haves” and “have-nots” is continuing to increase.
- Who’s Benefiting From Your Asset Allocation? Financial Jungle warns that your financial adviser may be recommending an asset allocation strategy that may not make sense for your situation.
- Investing: How to start (over): Thicken my Wallet shares some lessons on how to start investing based on his experience from fixing his broken portfolio.
- Pay Down the Mortgage or Invest? Middle Class Millionaire explains why investing in the market makes more sense for his situation.
- DIYers, You never had it so good: Four Pillars lists five reasons why for investment DIYers, things have never been better.
- Living Below Your Means (LBYM): Canadian Dream explains the advantages of LBYM with a hypothetical example.
- Critical Illness: The Basics: Riscario Insider explains the financial risks of a critical illness and explains the basics of insuring the risk.
- BRK.B — My very own index fund: Growth in Value is comfortable with holding one baby Berkshire share. After all, it is run by one of the best investors ever.
- Goldcorp’s Q1/07 Review: Commodity News and Mining Stocks reviews the first quarter earnings of one of the lowest cost gold producers.
- ETF Screeners, Tools and Primers: Canadian Financial DIY lists useful websites and online resources with comments for investors looking into Canadian and US ETFs.
- Ten Ways Personal Finance Blogging has Helped Me: A Canadian and Her Money explores both the obvious and not-so-obvious benefits of personal finance blogging.
- Stock Analysis – Bank of Nova Scotia: Investment Jungle analyses BNS and concludes that it is currently selling at a premium.
- Advantages Of An Early Age RRSP: A Dawn Journal mentions a few benefits of starting a RRSP at an early age.
- Dealing with Losing Your Job! Million Dollar Journey offers some tips to cope with a job loss.
- Getting Started With Blue Chip Dividends: Financial Security Quest shares his experience of buying his first blue-chip, high-yield dividend stock.