It’s more than a year since I tidied up the Sleepy Portfolio and with the recent turmoil in the stock markets, the allocations have begun to significantly diverge from their targets. The portfolio’s holdings in cash and bonds are now...

In response to the first post on the series on finding a financial advisor, Thicken My Wallet posed an interesting question – why would anyone want to search for potential financial advisors off the internet?

Five years may not count as “long term” in the investing world but on the Internet, it is certainly a long time. And that’s how long this blog has been in existence. In those five years, I’ve written over 1,250 posts and you’ve chimed in with over...

As TD Bank, Scotia Bank, BMO and CIBC increased the interest rate on existing secured and unsecured lines of credit, Royal Bank remained the lone holdout. No longer. Effective January 5, 2010, RBC is increasing the interest rate on existing credit...

Recent returns from conventional asset classes such as stocks and bonds have been, to put it mildly, disappointing. But, there is one asset class that has posted red-hot returns: gold. Since 2000, the price of gold has more than doubled in Canadian...

It is funny and incredible at the same time. Jon Chevreau reported on the Wealthy Boomer Blog that as a joke an author faked a news release announcing the launch of the first 100x leveraged ETFs — the Kelly Daily NASDAQ 100 Bull 100x ETF (Ticker: SOAR)...

We are just recovering from a punishing recession in which millions of jobs were lost and portfolios were decimated by a market downturn. Across the border, home owners are defaulting on their mortgages in record numbers because they loaded up on...