Canadian Finance Blog

Posted: 24 Oct 2010 02:00 AM PDT

Lots of great submissions this week. Nice to see some new people submitting their posts and sharing them with the Canadian Finance Blog readers!

Also, today is the last day to leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of Master Your Money Management!

Budgeting

Barb Friedberg at Can You Really Afford That? presents Can You Really Afford That?, saying “Make choices for your future that are in line with what YOU can afford now. Don’t let others define what you want and what’s affordable for you.”

Mike at Green Panda Treehouse presents 7 Ways for College Students to Save and Earn Money, saying “Valuable tips for all college students that are struggling with their finances.”

Mike at The Financial Blogger presents Pros & Cons of Using a Credit Card-Only Spending System, saying “A look at how you can use credit cards for your spending purposes.”

Career

Darwin at Darwin’s Money presents Is Private School Worth It? It Depends, saying “Parents the world wide struggle with whether their children can succeed in a public school system versus paying for a private school tuition. Consider these pros and cons and judge for yourself.”

Economy

Mich at BeatingTheIndex presents Interest Rate Forecasts in the Spotlight, saying “why you should not rely on interest rate predictions when it comes to your financial decisions!”

Frugality

Geoff at Car Negotiation Coach presents Car Buying Advice – Best lessons from the Coach, saying “This is a “best of” post where I put together a collection of my favorite posts to help new readers easily find car buying advice.”

Investing

Arjun Rudra at Investing Thesis presents Balancing Risk Versus Reward Through Asset Allocation with Terry Vaughan Of Hottinger Asset Management Canada, saying “Whether you're paying someone to actively manage your portfolio or if you're managing it yourself, what you need to figure out is the amount of risk you can tolerate and then based on your level of risk tolerance, create a portfolio with an optimal mix of asset classes that will maximize returns and minimize risk.”

md at Studenomics presents How-to Save Money on Auto and Home Insurance, saying “A few practical tips to save money on insurance.”

Mike at Intelligent Speculator presents Predict which bubble will blow up next…, saying “Time to look over the other bubbles and attempt to predict the next one to crash.”

Craig Ford at Money Help for Christians presents How To Start Investing | A Step By Step Investing Guide For New Investors, saying “Investing can be intimidating. This article introduces investing to people who have never invested before.”

Mike at Dividend Guy Blog presents Investing is NOT Sexy… But The Result IS, saying “Is investing the sexiest way to go? Usually not but the results can be”

Mike Piper at Oblivious Investor presents Types of Annuities: Annuity Definitions, saying “What are the differences between the various types of annuities? Which ones are useful, and which ones are a raw deal?”

Jim Yih at WealthWebGurus presents Bad investment research is useless, saying “At one of my recent workshops, I had someone come up during the break after talking about investment research and he said his advisor’s research is looking at 10 year returns as opposed to 1, 2, 3, 5 year returns. The advisor thinks looking at the long term is better than looking at the short term. Although this is very common thinking, here are some significant flaws with this approach”

Real Estate

Invest It Wisely at Invest It Wisely presents Is It Worth It to Have an Emergency Fund, or Should I Pay off My Mortgage Instead?, saying “This post takes a somewhat controversial tack and looks at the benefits and drawbacks of paying down the mortgage versus building up an emergency fund.”

Saving

Craig at Free From Broke presents Working Hard For What You Want – New Jetta Ad, saying “In the new Jetta ad we someone doing something we don’t see enough of these days – working hard and setting goals for something they want.”

Craig at Parenting Family Money presents How To Spend Less On Children's Halloween Contumes, saying “Who wants to spend an arm and a leg on Halloween costumes for their kids? That’s truly gruesome! Here are some ways you can get inexpensive costumes.”

Big Cajun Man at THE Canadian Personal Finance Blog presents RESPS: Lessons Learned, saying “RESPs do work, it’s just not as easy as you hoped.”

N.W. Journey at Networth Journey presents Spending and Saving Tips for College Students, saying “College students want to save money, right? Here’s some useful tips.”

Dd at Dividend Dollar presents Don’t let your Emergency Fund Rot!, saying “A new approach to the Emergency Fund, because all of us are a little bit crazy and have a fear of living in a van down by the river.”

Other

John at Passive Family Income presents 8 Ways to Make Money Online Without a Website, saying “The ultimate strategy of anyone trying to make money online should be to own your content. Normally this means purchasing and maintaining a website or blog. While the cost of running a website for a year can cost as little as $50, it takes an initial investment to get started. This cost may not always fit into your personal budget.”