Canadian Finance Blog

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 02:00 AM PST

Lots of great articles this week, thanks to everyone that submitted their posts!

Budgeting

Neal Frankle at Wealth Pilgirm presents Teach Kids About Money–The Free Guide, saying “If you have kids and you've faced financial trouble sometime in your life, you probably want to do everything in your power to make sure they don't relive your difficult experiences. That's certainly the case for David, a Wealth Pilgrim reader who dropped me a note last week asking what he could do to make sure he raises his kids to be money smart.”

Craig Ford at Money Help for Christians presents A Guarantee is Only as Good as the Guarantor, saying “A guarantee means nothing unless someone is willing to back it up with more than words.”

Networth Journey at Networth Journey presents Communicating with your Spouse about Money, saying “Learn the value of communicating with your spouse about money.”

Business

Jim at Advisor Think Box presents Financial Advisor – put your business hat on!, saying “The most successful businesses are run by exceptional entrepreneurs because entrepreneurs understand business. The financial advisor that wants to be successful needs to take their financial advisor hat off and put on their business hat.”

Mike at Experiglot presents Small Business Ideas, saying “Quick business ideas for you.”

Career

Mike at Green Panda Treehouse presents Being an Employee Pros and Cons, saying “The look at both sides of being an employee.”

md at PIN presents Do You Really Want to be Your Own Boss?, saying “We examine the idea of being your own boss.”

Debt and Credit

Janet at Credit, Eh presents What Would You Buy on a $27,000 Shopping Spree with 46 Credit Cards?, saying “What if you had 46 credit cards and a $27,000 shopping list? What would do? Before your cards were flagged you were busted for fraud, of course.”

Economy

Darwin at Darwin’s Money presents Yield Curves Explained, saying “Learn about the yield curve, why it’s important and how you can see what the market is trying to tell you about future recessions, inflation and more. This applies to all global markets, corporates, sovereigns and other debt instruments.”

Mike at The Financial Blogger presents What We Can Learn From The Financial Crisis, saying “What the economy has taught us about personal finance.”

Big Cajun Man at THE Canadian Personal Finance Site presents Loose Money Policy Continues, saying “Bank of Canada continues loose money for now, but with Inflation looming, will this change?”

Frugality

Sustainable PF at Sustainable Personal Finance presents Healthy Lunches from Home and Save.

vh at Funny about Money presents How to Make Sustainable, Ecofriendly Household Cleaners, saying “Interestingly, ecofriendly household cleaners are often frugal household cleaners. You don’t have to go out and replace your Lysol and your Comet with expensive new products.”

Investing

IS at Intelligent Speculator presents Why can't I get my head around Netflix (NFLX) ??, saying “An analysis of Netflix.”

Jim Yih at Retire Happy Blog presents Probability of the Markets, saying “What's going to happen to the markets? Are they going to turn around? Have we hit the bottom yet?”

Mike at The Dividend Guy Blog presents What is Your Investor Style?, saying “How do you invest your money?”

md at Studenomics presents Why Chasing Bank Interest Rates is a Waste, saying “Why I don’t care for chasing interest rates.”

The Investment Blogger at The Investment Blog presents Sucessful Investing Series [Issue#01] – Holding Cash, saying “Discussing the benefits of holding a useful portion of your money in cash, and how it is a part of successful investing which ultimately leads to higher returns over the long term.”

Jaymus at RealizedReturns presents Introduction to Exchange Traded Fund (ETFs), saying “This brief introduction provides a high-level overview of what ETFs are and their benefits. “

Real Estate

Fox at Finance Fox presents Would You: Consider a Shorter Mortgage Term?, saying “Would you consider a shorter mortgage term? Down to 25 years from 30 years? Most Canadians would consider it, but can everyone afford it?”

Echo at Boomer & Echo presents Selling Your House: Home Staging, saying “One way to ensure that you get top dollar when selling your house is by home staging.”

Retirement

Mike at Do Not Wait presents 6 Considerations of Where to Invest Your Retirement Savings, saying “Let’s save for retirement.”

Group Benefits Guy at Group Benefits Online presents The History of Group Retirement Plans, saying “Today, there are more Defined Contribution Pensions and Group RRSPs because many companies and organizations are moving away from Defined Benefit Pensions.”

Saving

Craig at Free From Broke presents Is It Worthwhile To Move To Save Costs?, saying “One of the most common suggestions personal finance authors make is to move to a cheaper location to save costs, but does it really save that much? How long do you have to be in the new location to reap the rewards of moving?”

Taxes

A.N.Rajah at Canadian Accountant Tips presents Common mistakes made in the personal income tax returns , saying “The post is about common mistakes made in the personal income tax returns.”

Ronika Khanna at Montreal Financial presents RRSP Facts and Figures: Infographic, saying “A compilation of facts and data that highlights some of the key features of RRSPs and analyzes data relating to Canadian contributors.”