Finance Wisdom
The High Risk of Bonds (podcast on The Maple Money Show)
The High Risk of Bonds https://maplemoney.com/podcast/high-risk-bonds/ I was recently interviewed by Tom Drake on The MapleMoney Show, the podcast that helps Canadians improve their personal finances to create lasting financial freedom. Most investors see bonds as a safe place to put their money, but conventional wisdom may be deceiving. Investing in bonds can actually put…
Read MoreHow to Avoid Falling Victim to Lifestyle Inflation
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/forcedn/alainguillotshow/Ed_edited.mp3 What is lifestyle inflation? Lifestyle inflation (or lifestyle creep) is the tendency to increase expenses as earning increases. If a person gets a raise of a few thousand dollars, that person increases their expenses by a similar amount and thus never has an opportunity to save money for retirement or other…
Read MoreYour FREE passes: See my talks at the #1 online event – Canadian Financial Summit 2020
Hi. The online Canadian Financial Summit is coming really soon. As a reader of Unconventional Wisdom blog, here are your FREE passes for a limited time. With these FREE passes, you can watch all the talks, and all your friends if you forward these passes to them. I’ll be one of the speakers again this…
Read MoreCovid-19: Making Wise Investment Decisions during the “Great Pause”
Remember February 2009? Stock markets had fallen more than 40% over 6 months. What did investors do? They sold more stocks that month than any other in history – at the market low! It was followed by the longest bull market in history – 11 years and 2 days from March 10, 2009 till March…
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Read MoreHow to fend off ‘lifestyle creep’ as you start to make more money (By Joel Kranc on LowestRates.ca)
Did you ever get a raise, bonus or tax refund, and at the end of the year you have no idea where it went? “Lifestyle creep” happens to most of us. It’s so easy to add a bit to your lifestyle every year without even realizing it, especially if your income rises. Lifetsyle creep is…
Read MoreIs Typical Retirement Advice Good Advice? – Testing Retirement Rules of Thumb (As seen in Canadian MoneySaver)
You want to retire soon. How should you setup your retirement income? You talk with some friends, read about it on the internet, and talk with a financial advisor. Are you actually getting good advice? When it comes to retirement income, most financial advisors rely on a few rules of thumb handed down from one…
Read MoreFinancial Advice Or “Quackery?”: How To Spot The Difference
How can you tell if the financial advice you’ve received is real, useful financial guidance or just a case of “fake news”, i.e. financial “quackery”? Unfortunately, a lot of what happens in the financial industry in Canada is financial “quackery,” as we like to call it. Since the most common methods are so familiar to…
Read MoreCan we retire now? Ed Rempel tests retirement income rules of thumb
John and Jennifer (Jen) are 62 and want to retire comfortably soon. Can they retire now? They want to know how to set up their retirement income to give them the maximum income that will be reliable for the rest of their life. Will common rules of thumb about retirement income help them? They have…
Read MoreRead my article in Money.ca Magazine: Understanding the Differences Between Financial Advisors and Brokers
This article from Money.ca Magazine: As a fee-only financial advisor, I am surely biased to this type of advisor. I do think everyday investors are much better off if they have someone in their corner who is recommending a particular investment product because it actually is the best product for them, given their circumstances and…
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