- Rob Carrick wrote about the troubles that clients are having at Scotia iTrade including inability to access their accounts and errors in their investment holdings and cash balances. The trouble started when Scotia Bank started migrating old E*Trade accounts to the bank’s own system. If you have accounts with iTrade be sure to watch out for any discrepancies.
- For what it’s worth, in an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Jeremy Siegel opines that 2010 will be a good year for stocks, bad for bonds and interest rates will go up.
- This article in Money magazine argues that the gold craze is just another asset bubble. Also check out this interesting slide show on other financial bubbles in the past five centuries.
- Michael James writes that mutual funds that levy a deferred sales charge (DSC) penalize regular savers.
- Preet finds out that ING Direct is considering launching a discount brokerage in his chat with Peter Aceto.
- Kathryn offered eight financial resolution ideas for the New Year.
- While on the topic of New Year resolutions, Thicken My Wallet blogged about why resolutions pertaining to personal finance fail.
- Mr. Cheap reviewed Malcolm Gladwell’s new book What the Dog Saw and found it very interesting.
- Larry MacDonald stumbled on to a vast aggregate of investment outlooks for 2010. Here’s my outlook: some of them are likely to come true!
- Gail Vaz-Oxlade asks readers if they are grasshoppers or ants.
I’m unable to highlight all the articles worth checking out in my round-up but you can check them out through my Twitter feed. Have a great weekend everyone!