Earlier this year I wrote an article about how to invest in non-denominated stamps, eg: Canada’s Permanent Stamps. I purchased a coil of stamps at 63 cents each with the assumption that as the price of stamps increase over time (like they have been doing throughout history) my stamps would also increase in value to match the domestic postage… Read More »
Investing can be scary and confusing, especially for beginners. Luckily, there’s a group of low cost mutual funds from TD that allows anyone to invest with ease. 😀 If you’re not yet ready to deal with a discount broker or pick individual stocks, then you should consider investing in some TD e-Series funds. With as little as $100 to… Read More »
StatsCan says 18.7% of Canada’s assets were controlled by foreign enterprises in 2011. Not surprisingly about half of these entities are based in the US 🙂 The UK and Dutch-controlled enterprises held the second and third highest spots respectively. No other country had more than 5% of foreign-controlled assets. The shares of foreign-controlled assets and revenues declined from 2010, while the… Read More »
Marketing in today’s world is very important. It affects how a company acquires new customers and how to maintain its relationship with them. I recently read a story about how a professor was able to explain complicated marketing terms to his students. He basically described the different kinds of marketing with simple to understand examples. You see a… Read More »
When I first started this blog in 2010, I only had about $300K of financial assets. I thought that was a lot of money back then, but as I learned more about personal finance I realized that it’s actually not that much. The average household net worth in Canada today is $400K. I looked at other people’s balance sheets… Read More »
I was watching the Buckner and Griffiths Exchange yesterday. It’s a business show on the CBC that only airs once in awhile. Anyway, they were talking about the booming ag sector in Canada. Apparently farmers are making a killing this year because of the bumper crop. Rudyard Griffiths, a savvy social entrepreneur renowned for wearing his dashing red tie,… Read More »