- The Bank of Canada decided this week to keep interest rates steady until the end of the second quarter of 2010. In contrast to widespread opinion that inflation will be higher, the Bank notes that “the overall risks to its inflation projection [ed: 2 percent in the third quarter of 2011] are tilted slightly to the downside”.
- MoneySense writer Dan Bortolotti grew tired of active management and became a couch potato investor. Now, he is hoping more Canadians will follow his lead and become couch potatoes with the help of information available on the brand-new Canadian Couch Potato Blog.
- Canadian Money Forum members share where they are investing their money these days.
- You know it is RRSP season when banks and mutual fund companies come out with a dizzying number of polls, surveys and studies. Jon Chevreau has been covering these surveys on the Wealthy Boomer blog. I found the survey by Franklin Templeton that many Canadians are blissfully unaware of a market rally to be interesting.
- Frugal Trader explains the process involved in claiming extended warranty with your credit card.
- Invest in a RRSP or in a taxable account? Michael James shows that the ability to defer taxes confers a significant advantage to saving inside a RRSP.
- Canadian Personal Finance Blog reminds us that you can calculate how much a person makes based on when their EI and CPP deductions end.
- Mr. Cheap and Mike had a friendly wager on a low capital, high labour strategy of becoming a general contractor for your principle residence.
- Preet pointed out that a new paper is challenging the Fama-French Three Factor Model.
- Chaya Cooperberg writes that wealth managers are gearing up to meet the investment needs of high net worth households (those that have $500,000 to $1 million in investible assets).
I’m unable to highlight all the articles worth checking out in my weekly round up but you can check them out through my Twitter feed. Hope everyone had a great weekend!
